06 Aug 21
@vivify saidAs we know from 2016, rural areas in the upper midwest (Michigan, Wisconsin, etc.) are quite Trumpian.
As I showed you in a link from my post, California has had heat waves with temps in the triple digits. That same hate wave was made even worse from the forest fires ravaging the state.
[b]I'd also challenge your assumption that COVID cases can be described as "disastrous." If you're going to discuss "disastrous," show me deaths. Getting COVID and then recovering is hardl ...[text shortened]... orida, which has the most Democrats in that state, contains the lowest concentration of COVID cases.
Why are these no big case counts in those areas?
06 Aug 21
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@sh76 saidYou know the southern states are a different breed; that's where the Bible Belt is, America's conservative Mecca.
The "red states" being hard hit are all in the deep South. Red states Montana, Utah, Nebraska, Iowa Kansas, the Dakotas, etc., seem to be doing fine.
And there are plenty of blue areas in those red states (New Orleans area) that are getting his just as hard. How about Miami-Dade?
True. Good point.
That map looks regional, not political.
I posted two links, one was a political map of Florida, the other was a regional COVID map.
06 Aug 21
@vivify saidYes, because the Trumpian rural areas were overcome by populations from Detroit, Madison and Milwaukee areas. But red states aren't homogenous red and blue states aren't homogenous blue.
Those two states voted for Biden.
Look, I'm not saying vaccine hesitancy doesn't play a role in COVID surges. Of course it does. But the relationship isn't quite as linear as a superficial presentation of data would have us believe.
All of the data that I have studied over the last 18 months has led me to conclude that seasonality is the number one predictor of COVID activity and that region is much more of a factor than mask mandates and the like.
07 Aug 21
@no1marauder saidHospitalized means dead. They really need to do a fully vitamin blood test on these kids to see if they really do have vitamin deficiencies.
Great! Now those kids hospitalized will have "natural immunity" forever according to Eldy (well if they don't die).
After All, many people stay inside year round. They hang out in air conditioning and play video games as well as other internet stuff. That is not a healthy lifestyle.
But hey, why not just give them an experimental shot with no long term track record? It is the easy thing to do.