No COVID 19 reported in Alabama, Mississippi, or West Virginia.

[trof]

The three poorest (and worse governed?) states in the U.S.
I live in Alabama.
I guarantee you it's here.
We just don't have the infrastructure to test for it.

[getagrip_already]

1. once upon a time, the cdc could test anywhere on the globe overnight.....

Back when we had a functioning gov't that is.

[trof]

2. Ah...the good ol' days

[Volaris]

23. Ya..of three and a half years ago.

[Nature Man]

3. Even viruses find the confederacy distasteful?

[trof]

6. I wish

[BGBD]

15. WV

was in the Union!

[CanonRay]

31. Ha!

[Maeve]

4. Yes, most likely it's a matter of not testing

Just like I don't believe the only cases in Ohio are in Cleveland

[yonder]

5. Why am I not surprised? Also, none in Idaho where I live either. Again, why am I not surprised?

[blueinredohio]

7. They probably had it but prayed it away.

[trof]

8. Yeah, that's gotta be it.

[underpants]

9. Not exactly world travelers

Just saying.

[trof]

12. Huntsville. NASA. Rocket City. Lots of foreign travel.

[beachbumbob]

10. so how many been tested?

[trof]

13. 10 I think. All 'negative'.

On March 5, six weeks after the first case was reported in the country, the Alabama Department of Public Health began COVID-19 testing.

While no cases have been reported in Alabama, people have reached out to WHNT News 19 with concerns about being able to access a test. According to ADPH officials, less than 20 have been tested since last Thursday when testing began.
https://whnt.com/news/coronavirus/covid-19-testing-lagging-alabama-says-ramping-up-efforts/

[edhopper]

11. If you don't test

nobody has it.

[MerryBlooms]

19. Rec. Spring Break Tourist Money.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

26. If I cover my eyes, you can't see me!

The U.S. is using a toddler's plan to deal with a pandemic. Traitor tot is going to kill a lot of us.

Maybe if we all hold our breath a really long time, the virus will go away.

[KentuckyWoman]

14. Poor people do not travel much.

You might get it later in the cycle. Eventually it will at least get to the state capital.

[trof]

16. I live on the gulf coast.

We're now getting our HUGE influx of spring breakers from all over.
I'm 78 with mild COPD and hypertension.
I'm hunkered down.

[KentuckyWoman]

17. Smart move.

There is a suspected community spread case in my general part of the world. I am just hoping he did not use the same shopping cart right before me somewhere just before he came up sick.

[trof]

20. Miz t's theory on shopping cart handles.

Pick one from the parking lot.
The UV rays have killed any viruses and germs.
That's her theory.

[KentuckyWoman]

22. And then she touches up the store shelves

In the same places most people do

I moved to wearing those plastic gloves and toss them before putting the stuff in the car. Lot of good that really does since the bags and all I bought got touched up too

But like mix T ... I need my sense of security.

[trof]

25. We have been wearing gloves since last week.

5 mil nitrile
About 5 bucks for 100 at harbor freight.

[Ferrets are Cool]

30. I will start doing that too when I have to shop. nt

[Nature Man]

34. as hot as it can get on the Gulf coast

they probably roast away right quick!

[Ex Lurker]

32. Several major universities with international students, , NASA in Huntsville,

Mercedes Benz plant in Mobile, a large hospital complex in Birmingham. Alabama is just as connected as anywhere else. If it's in Seattle, it's in Alabama.

[Aristus]

18. Things needed to report:

1. Literacy.
2. Reasoning capacity.
3. Communications infrastructure.

Do they have any of that out in the provinces?

[trof]

21. Actually we have all of those.

Just not in the state legislature or governor's mansion.

[Alhena]

24. To be fair, not a lot of people want to come here, so it would make sense

If we get it last. If you're some Chinese guy fleeing Wuhan, going to Jackson Mississippi probably isn't on the top of your list.

[Codeine]

27. States so gross that even viruses won't visit. nt

[Retrograde]

28. Yet

and given their governments it’s likely they won’t find many because they can’t or won’t test

[Ferrets are Cool]

29. I guarantee you it's here also...

with wifey on chemo for the foreseeable future, and no immune system, we are even more cautious than ever.

[stillcool]

33. I've read that some pneumonia cases...

could be the COVID 19, but no one tests for it, because...whatever. Our government does not like numbers. Whether it's the dead in Puerto Rico form Hurricane Maria, the dead in New Orleans from Hurricane Katrina, or the number of Iraqi's whose lives we ended.