Heh, I bounced between urban Florida and Texas during the pandemic. Our Florida neighbors had an "anti mask party" where the whole point was to show up in prot

Heh, I bounced between urban Florida and Texas during the pandemic. Our Florida neighbors had an "anti mask party" where the whole point was to show up in protest of masks. The street was packed with cars. And they weren't even stereotypical "Florida man" kinda folk, I would describe them as free spirits, very liberal and relatively wealthy for our neighborhood. Meanwhile, I have other family that refused vaccines because they were "not Christian." A seperate, nonreligious Texas in-law works as a nurse, and they are anti vaccine. And again, this is urban Texas which is far more liberal than the rural areas. ...The study postulates the "two states could have averted" the high toll, but honestly, it feels like a miracle the vaccination rate was as high as it was. Local governments pushed vaccines pretty hard.