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I think California having the lowest Covid-19 rate in the nation has helped its reputation a lot. We’ve traditionally caught a lot of flack for woo woo crystal
by jquery 5y ago
I think California having the lowest Covid-19 rate in the nation has helped its reputation a lot. We’ve traditionally caught a lot of flack for woo woo crystal healing but it seems Texas and Florida are totally stealing our thunder these days.
- elzbardico 5y agoOne of the lowest. Not the lowest. And you can't infer too much about it without considering a lot of other stuff, like demographic composition.
- TheRealDevonMcC 5y agoConsidering how diverse California's demographic composition is, as opposed to say, Vermont, they deserve credit for doing better than the country as a whole.
- joe-collins 5y agoThere might be some to that, but having bottom quartile infection rates while containing an eighth of the US population seems like a strong statement from any angle.
- HWR_14 5y agoInfection rates are, by definition, adjusted for population. In a pandemic, you may want to talk about rates given population density, but California is in the middle of the pack there (even Florida is more dense.)
- elzbardico 5y agoNot to mention the fact that Florida is notoriously older too.
- _3u10 5y agoYou would think an improving reputation would lead to people migrating to a state instead of leaving.