‘Freedumb’ Self-Selection Continues Unabated
If anything, perhaps the degree to which the MAGAts are placing their lives in danger has been understated.
Here are the ten counties in the US that experienced the greatest percentage growth in COVID cases over the past seven days according to the NYTimes, and the percentage of voters who went with Trump in these counties in 2020:
Andrews TX: 84.3
Russell KY: 84.0
Knox KY: 83.0
Perry KY: 76.5
Lewis WV: 77.5
Braxton WV: 72.7
Whitley KY: 81.8
McCreary KY: 88.0
Rockcastle KY: 84.5
Scott TN: 88.4
My unsolicited advice to the folks living here: Keep on doin’ what you’re doin’. You’re simply protectin’ your Constitutional right to infect, and ultimately kill, your family, friends, neighbors. And, um, you.
My unsolicited advice to the folks living here: Keep on doin’ what you’re doin’.
Seconded.
I’m not a fan of trying to rescue fools hell bent on their own destruction either, it’s a case of you asked for it now try not to die from it. I have said from the beginning the south would get it’s just desserts that would wipe that Haw Haw Haw look off it’s face. Will it be a lesson learned? No, it never is. As ever there are none so blind as they who will not see.
If COVID doesn’t get them, climate change will. The only habitable area in the US will be areas that reactionaries have fled for the hurricane and flood belts.
Just out of curiosity, I pulled some numbers from Andrews County, Texas.
Typical Trump country — a big place where nobody lives.
The county is almost the size of Kent and Sussex combined, and Dover has nearly twice its population.
Which leads to my other point: When you’re dealing with a small population base, it doesn’t take much to have a huge percentage increase, so I wouldn’t read a hell of a lot into those numbers.
OTOH, with people so scarce, there’s probably plenty of horses, so the sufferin’ rubes shouldn’t have too much trouble getting their hands on large does of Ivermectin.
Taken in isolation, you’d be correct. Except–if you go to that NYTimes county-by-county map and click on virtually ANY county in the US with a red color or darker, virtually every county is a Trump county. I betcha that if you took the top 50 counties, they’d virtually all be Trump counties.
Then, look at the states where you get those colors. They’re either Trump states, or the portion of the state with the outbreaks (see Nevada, Oregon, or Arizona, for example) are those areas that went for Trump.
Taken as a whole, the pattern is unmistakable–the areas getting hammered are the areas where the anti-vaxxers/anti-maskers proliferate.
BTW, coming soon to the list: Idaho and Montana.
With low population density, you would think that their opportunities to AVOID inaction would be great, provided they practiced a little bit of virus aware hygiene.
But I guess even a little bit of virus aware hygiene is tyranny to them.
“Give me liberty AND give me death.”
Didn’t somebody say that once?