As COVID-19 may be on a slow, downward trend in the hotspots of New York City, New Orleans, and Detroit, the virus appears to be finding new ground elsewhere: in rural America.
Grim Reaper is going to be awful busy in all the rural areas, with no or poorly equipped health care.
edit: I think the Grim Trumper is more appropriate…
Precisely why I prefer to be in the control group of this experiment, than in the experimental group.
No one will be paying attention to this as the shrill calls for re-opening become more shrill.
Wisconsin SC is hearing the lawsuit today against the governor of the State to re-open everything stat. Wanna bet the court completely disregards public health and instead relies on its political stance in their opinions?
I dubbed this month ‘MAGA May’. Looks like the CDC and other who analyze data are saying the same thing.
The proper way to read the CDC/Hopkins report is this: The bill for MAGA hostility to social distancing which began on Easter Sunday comes due in May.
Whether the case count remains steady, increases by 1.3x, 1.5x, 2x, 4x or 8x doesn’t matter. The fact is that we’re going to have a high baseline of cases which will result in deaths.
The only way to stop people from dying from the corona virus is to make sure they don’t catch it in the first place. There is no vaccine. There are no curative therapeutic drugs. It doesn’t matter how many doctors, hospital beds or ventilators you have. If people catch it, a significant number of people will die.
We crossed 70,000 fatalities this morning.
Looks like NYS is reporting another 1700 undisclosed nursing home deaths. I think there are at least 10,000 unreported such deaths across the country. I expect that 1700 to be added to the counts today or this week.
Connecticut is closing the schools for the balance of the school year:
ETA: For those less in the know, Connecticut is more rural than one expects. When one thinks of CT, Fairfield county (typically considered the sixth borough of NYC) comes to mind. But leave Fairfield county and most of the State is quite rural. When hubby and I were married at the farm five plus years ago, his friends that came from here in WI and MN were amazed at the amount of trees and parks and lakes, etc., that were there. They still can’t believe it.
So yeah, together with this story, nothing surprises me. It’s just sad that both my eighth grade and fifth grade grandchildren will not experience graduation with their classmates. I’m not sure what happens to either of them, both of whom have pretty serious learning disabilities.
This is excellent reporting. Thanks, Josh Kovensky.
Pretty damn scary.
And these would be the people who want to open up?
Lord what fools these mortals be.
This is precisely what was predicted. But rural people didn’t believe it. So it’s happening.
That’s sad, but lessons come out of sadness. In this case, the lesson is that being in a rural area doesn’t protect you from being part of the larger society. We’re all in this together. New York and Flatonia, both the same.
That may well depend on how vulnerable individual justices feel they and their immediate famiies are.
Donald J. Trump: AWOL
Republican Leadership: AWOL
Attention Trump Country:
Donald Trump does not give two shits about you.
Best of Luck.
Welcome to the real world! Get well soon! Thought & Prayers!
I will wait to see, f’rinstance, whether they take the arguments remotely, as the SCOTUS is doing. These guys in WI thought it was perfectly fine to require in person voting three weeks ago. I don’t expect they’ll feel any differently today.
Never mind that Madison (where the court is located) is one of the significant hotspots in the State.
Exactly. Are they meeting on the bench or remotely?
Rural Georgians, listen to the data, because the data don’t lie. Corona virus is coming for you. The more you refuse to mask up and stay home, the faster it comes and the more it spreads and kills.
It cares for you more than Trump does.
He is the Plague President.
If one looks at the second to last paragraph of this article, they’re remote:
The high court will utilize Zoom video conferencing tools to hear arguments from both sides. Several other Wisconsin courts are utilizing similar tools to continue conducting business when possible, though things like jury trials have been postponed.
So yeah, as expected, the hypocrisy is overwhelming. I’d like to see those pleading the case in defense of the government to use this as a reference point - if the court is not willing to hear the case in person, what does that say about the viability, legally or otherwise, of re-opening the State?
I really don’t understand how people can watch this dribble
No more square dancing.