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You're both correct. What is being missed is that, partly because of less social-distancing, FL and the MO/AR/LA region are getting hit first, so you can point
by MarkLowenstein 5y ago
You're both correct. What is being missed is that, partly because of less social-distancing, FL and the MO/AR/LA region are getting hit first, so you can point to the problems there this week. The media dishonesty is that they won't come back next week or in two weeks and give attention to the equivalent problems in VA, OR, WA, etc. The passive headline-reader, who throughout 2020 and 2021 has seen sob story after sob story about South Dakota, Texas, and Florida, must really scratch their heads when looking at the cumulative death rates and wonder how they ended up being so far from the top, when practically 100% of the reported problems were always in those states.
- greedo 5y agoThe higher death rates in NJ/NY etc were due to COVID being new, and treatments being unknown or experimental. The death rates in South Dakota were because idiots felt the need to clog a small town with 500K cyclists despite warnings from almost every reliable epidemiologist. It's the difference between getting surprised by a deadly bug, and having state governments that don't give a crap despite being forewarned.
- gdulli 5y agoI don't know where you get this idea that delta is going to hit blue states after red states. Blue states are open. I haven't worn a mask since before I started hearing about delta. Delta is here in my blue state and the neighboring ones, cases here have gone up, but people aren't dying. Because of high vaccination rates it's not news here the way it was last year and we're staying open. You're inventing this "dishonesty."