> Party politics aside, much of the damage has been self-inflicted. > Several wealthy states seem to have forgotten that money doesn’t grow on trees and oblite

> Party politics aside, much of the damage has been self-inflicted. > Several wealthy states seem to have forgotten that money doesn’t grow on trees and obliterated their tax bases. Most other states are pretty healthy and not in need of additional bailouts. The list of states that are "healthy," economically, also coincidentally lines up with the list of states with the least accurate counting of current infections and have done the least to flatten their respective curves. Their actual health, the word often associate with human physical well-being, is a black box and it almost feels like they prefer to keep it that way.