I was a grad student - graduated in 82. Lived a in few really weird places. A student ghetto old house divided into drafty apartments, an upstairs boarding room at a farm just east of town, with another student who owned a house on Kansas River bottomland (he was what you could call an amateur farmer, the sort who was maybe a bit ahead of his time).
rowe33
6096
I may be the only one at a loss but I have no idea what your maps are trying to say here.
I question that fact, in part because it appears that COVID-19 is fairly rapidly spreading into more and more rural communities. I used counties in Kansas as examples of rural communities. Every week or so, the set of Kansas counties with confirmed cases spreads, especially into the extremely rural central and presumably heading further west. Into areas that, presumably, Hannity thinks should be open for business as usual. (though realistically, they are probably acting a lot closer to “business as usual” than the cities are)
rowe33
6098
Why are the counties flipping from red to blue and back to red? Is the color unrelated? Is this just the spread of the virus or some sort of Trump approval matrix? The former would make sense but I don’t get the color coding they’re using.
Timex
6099
From personal experience in rural PA, from talking to healthcare workers:
covid19 is all over out here, in the opinion of the healthcare worker that i talked to. They say this because they’re seeing WAY more adults come in with fevers, which is not at all typical. They’re pretty certain that all of those folks have covid19.
But they have no way to test them, so whatevs!
Each map is a different source. No information in color other than filled-in = confirmed cases.
rowe33
6101
Got it, thanks! I’m assuming just about every state that’s listening to Trump’s advice will show a similar spread.
No - similar spread in every state, everywhere. It looks like there are confirmed cases in all but 7 counties in Ohio (so far), where the governor has been extremely pro-active.
Menzo
6103
This is the thing about what Hannity et. al are saying: it’s totally divorced from the reality that their viewers are experiencing. Deaths are increasing and more and more rural areas are seeing breakouts, not the reverse.
But again, now they are positioning this as a FREEDOM issue, not a monetary one. So there are no limits to the number of deaths that make it worth it.
Yup, the vast number of Covid-19 cases are never going to be recorded, especially in rural areas.
Another thing about rural areas: some of them are going to show incorrectly low death rates. That’s because in many highly rural counties, patients requiring the ICU are routinely medivaced to hospitals in other counties, because there’s no hospital with the correct facilities inside the rural county. This factor is going to up the death rate in urban/medical center counties and reduce it in sparsely populated ones. (Of course, working against this will be the possibility that ICUs in urban areas may be full, preventing the rural patients from being medivaced in the first place.)
Like anyone should care what a corrupt hack like Bill Barr thinks about this.
Timex
6106
Make Bill Barr drink a bunch of Hydroxychloroquine
RichVR
6107
Anally. With a pineapple.
rowe33
6108
Don’t forget to add some zinc.
KevinC
6110
I read that as Metallica for some reason. So let’s add “while quarantined with Lars Ulrich and listening to him whine about people downloading music”.
Locked in an echoey bathroom and forced to listen to Lars playing drum solos on that collection of saucepans, buckets and paint tins he calls a drum set.
I’ve been informed I wouldn’t like heads on pikes. I’m finding it difficult to agree.
Given a choice between my head on a spike, or listening to Lars bang on pots and pans in an echoey bathroom, I might well choose the pike.
CraigM
6114
St Snare Drum is coming for you
