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That’s a huge extrapolation from “many people aren’t wearing masks” to “complete denial that this is real”. Beginning of August the deaths per capita in the 7

That’s a huge extrapolation from “many people aren’t wearing masks” to “complete denial that this is real”. Beginning of August the deaths per capita in the 7 county Twin Cities area were four times the rate of the rest of the State. It has reduced to only 2.5 times now. Basically for the first seven months, the COVID fatality rate in the rest of the State was comparable to the 17-18 flu season, perhaps a little better. Folks would reasonably ask why worry... Given the Twin Cities have had over twice the COVID fatalities per capita is spite of an arguably superior health care system, the city folks themselves aren’t in much of a position to preach what works...

karlshea 6y ago
"Complete denial that this is real" comes from... literally people denying that it's real, all over the place. You'd have to be under a rock to not have seen this being said. My own father is one of them. As to the rest of your point, yes, in a large urban area the virus will spread faster and sooner than out-state. However, I've been watching the weekly change per-capita per-county map in the Star Tribune and Hennepin county has been lagging everywhere else for quite some time now, so I think we are in fact in a position to preach about what works.