"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 th

"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.