In general, never count solely on East Coast media to provide an accurate pulse on the entirety of the US. For anything. Europe trips up on this a lot. Espec

In general, never count solely on East Coast media to provide an accurate pulse on the entirety of the US. For anything. Europe trips up on this a lot. Especially in the case of COVID, where NY, NJ, MA and CT have per capita death rates two to three times worse than the National average. In early May, over half of all US deaths were in the Boston to DC corridors. The sort of folks who don’t care much about COVID aren’t posting on HN. Typically. So you will get a sampling bias towards the (over?) aware, or those who have an agenda for or against a particular position on COVID response.