This is a blue state bug (for now at least)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The virus does care about your politics - to the extent if you have an incompetent Republican governor more interested in pleasing Trump than sound government, your death rates are going to go up up up up up

Yup. DeSantis should not have been so smug while NY was struggling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The virus does care about your politics - to the extent if you have an incompetent Republican governor more interested in pleasing Trump than sound government, your death rates are going to go up up up up up

Yup. DeSantis should not have been so smug while NY was struggling.

Karma came knocking at his door and it knocked hard! Florida is having a revelation.

[Anonymous]

Ethnocentric is never a good look O.P.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So predictable. When this started, most Americans and media were alarmed. Then when it became clear the virus hit Black and Brown communities at a much higher rate (meaning it didn't impact whites as much) we got the armed “Open Up” militias. Now that it’s hitting red states, Rs are like, “wear a mask.”

+1. As someone said on another thread, certain people think they are too white and too special to get COVID. I see it in my own wider social circle (people posting pics of fairly large gatherings with friends on social media, staying at crowded hotels in SC, etc.).

I read a woman’s Instagram post in which she wrote that anyone who believes they will be fine will be fine. She believes in the law of attraction and thinks th right belief will prevent the virus.....

[Anonymous]

I hope that the title of this post becomes true,
And both Florida and Texas vote blue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hope that the title of this post becomes true,
And both Florida and Texas vote blue.

Florida probably will. The fact that Texas is as competitive as it is speaks VOLUMES about how the American people see trump.

[Anonymous]

Your hypothesis that the virus will turn states blue is very interesting. You may be right.

[Anonymous]

This thread, like so many others, has aged SO WELL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread, like so many others, has aged SO WELL

Yup OP came back and took her lumps a few pages back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your hypothesis that the virus will turn states blue is very interesting. You may be right.

I agree. Especially combined with demographic changes (many Trump supporters aging and dying).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So predictable. When this started, most Americans and media were alarmed. Then when it became clear the virus hit Black and Brown communities at a much higher rate (meaning it didn't impact whites as much) we got the armed “Open Up” militias. Now that it’s hitting red states, Rs are like, “wear a mask.”

+1. As someone said on another thread, certain people think they are too white and too special to get COVID. I see it in my own wider social circle (people posting pics of fairly large gatherings with friends on social media, staying at crowded hotels in SC, etc.).

I read a woman’s Instagram post in which she wrote that anyone who believes they will be fine will be fine. She believes in the law of attraction and thinks th right belief will prevent the virus.....

My doctor espoused this view the last time I saw her; I found a new doctor. So many people have no choice in some ways - grocery store employees, doctors, trash collectors - that blaming them seems the height of btchy and arrogant. Not everyone who gets covid got it because they were maskless at a bar.

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Gosh, this thread did not age well at all, did it?

[Anonymous]

apparently, there are those who actually believe that wearing a mask kills you, and if you do wear one, it's just a political statement, and that the FL numbers are exaggerated.

This is why FL numbers are increasing. Stupid people.

[Anonymous]

OP back.

So many folks who are scared of Trump losing. So many. Basically Trump's hope was to paint this as a blue state bug. T'ain't happening any more.

Let's compare the top growing dying and getting sick states and intersperse some of the leading countries (those with 10k or more cases).

Top 10 in getting sick over the past 7 days (all per Worldometer).
Montana 43.70%
Idaho 42.54%
SOUTH AFRICA 40.54% (NB this is the tippy top of all the over 10,000 case countries!)
Florida 33.92%
Texas 32.54%
PHILIPPINES 29.62%
ARGENTINA 29.36%
West Virginia 29.36%
UZBEKISTAN 28.89%
IRAQ 28.86%
Arizona 26.84%
ISRAEL 28.43%
COLOMBIA 28.20%
GUATEMALA 27.10%
Oklahoma 26.42%
INDIA 26.18%
South Carolina 26.08%
GHANA 25.07%
California 25.01%
Alaska 24.66%

To get "better" you have to hit Madagascar (67.82%), Costa Rica (56.48%), Palestine (54.65%), Kosovo (46.93%).

Bottom 10:
Illinois 4.31%
QATER 3.98%
Vermont 3.63%
Maine 3.62%
TURKEY 3.60%
AUSTRIA 3.40%
District of Columbia 3.39%
New Hampshire 2.85%
SOUTH KOREA 2.63%
SINGAPORE 2.51%
BELARUS 2.37%
New Jersey 2.27%
FRANCE 2.27%
CANADA 2.15%
SWITZERLAND 1.92%
Rhode Island 1.89%
Massachusetts 1.42%
UNITED KINGDOM 1.42%
New York 1.23%
Connecticut 1.22%

Beating CT are Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Ireland, and China.

Now who's dying?

Ahead of even MT are:
Kazakhstan 88.30%
Uzbekistan 83.87%
South Africa 31.23%
Colombia 29.86%
Iraq 29.01%
Bolivia 28.94%
Guatemala 27.39%
MONTANA 26.09%
Serbia 24.84%
Panama 24.03%
Honduras 23.97%
Azerbaijan 23.65%
Argentina 22.21%
Oman 22.17%
TEXAS 21.90%
Afghanistan 20.34%
ARIZONA 19.17%
Qatar 18.70%
India 17.68%
Saudi Arabia 17.38%
Armenia 17.19%
UTAH 17.13%
SOUTH CAROLINA 16.97%
TENNESSEE 15.86%
Bangladesh 15.42%
Ghana 15.38%
Egypt 14.91%
Cameroon 14.70%
Mexico 14.57%
Indonesia 14.44%
Nigeria 14.20%
Ivory Coast 13.89%
FLORIDA 13.34%
SOUTH DAKOTA 12.37%
Peru 12.20%
Dominican Republic 11.96%
Ukraine 11.82%
Nepal 11.76%
Russia 11.75%
NEVADA 11.70%
ARKANSAS 11.54%

Who's not dying?
Massachusetts 1.69%
Rhode Island 1.67%
Michigan 1.53%
Colorado 1.41%
Delaware 0.98%
Nebraska 0.70%
New York 0.55%
Connecticut 0.30%
Hawaii 0.00%
Vermont 0.00%

Their company:
UK 1.36%
Canada 1.14%
Germany 0.58%
Japan 0.51%
Denmark 0.50%
Netherlands 0.39%
France 0.37%
Ireland 0.29%
Czech Republic 0.28%
Italy 0.26%
Switzerland 0.15%
Austria 0.14%
Belgium 0.11%
Spain 0.06%
Singapore 0.00%
China 0.00%