Rural Trump voters think they are safe from the virus. They are not.

[shockey80]

It only takes one infected person in a small town to start a pandemic in that small town. This virus is spreading everywhere, It just takes it little bit longer to travel and spread in rural areas.

[ck4829]

1. And with the lack of rural hospitals...

[Hortensis]

17. Someone was saying rural doctors and hospital administrators

are very afraid of what could happen in their very under-serviced areas.

Death rates per capita are reportedly already much higher in some smaller hot spots than in cities.

[exboyfil]

2. Church in Louisiana had 1,200 attendees

on Palm Sunday. Some came from 100 miles away. They better hope it didn't spread. I bet many of those folks came from small towns.

[hatrack]

3. Some of the rural county death rates are substantially worse than in urban areas

Terrebonne Parish, LA - 182 confirmed cases, 7 deaths
Ascension Parish, LA - 347 confirmed cases, 11 deaths
Lee County, GA - 148 confirmed cases, 13 deaths
Dougherty County, GA - 722 confirmed cases, 44 deaths
Grant County, IN - 20 confirmed cases, 2 deaths

https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

[Windy City Charlie]

4. Even further

Even further, many of them don't understand severity of the virus. They just seem to think if they do get it that they'll just have to go to their doctor and they'll get a prescription to treat it, or in a worse case scenario be admitted to their local hospital. These people will end up having to learn the hard way.

[cwydro]

6. This disease is ripping through AA communities.

Let’s not try to be too happy about anyone getting this disease.

[Igel]

7. Or condescending towards those who do.

"These people".

[cwydro]

9. Thank you.

Spot on.

[Strelnikov_]

14. What local hospital

1/6 of Trump voters live in a county without a hospital.

Further, most rural hospitals are glorified urgent care clinics. Anything serious gets transferred.

[Tanuki]

5. The first documented case in Kentucky was a Walmart employee in the rural

town of Christiana.

[ProfessorGAC]

8. Iowa Has 946 Cases

Illinois has 12,262. There's 4 times the people here and a giant metro area.
So, Iowa, very rural, is hardly immune.
Also, I read one county in iowa saw a 148% increase in cases in a day.

[cwydro]

10. Not every rural citizen is a trump voter.

Please stop this.

[phylny]

13. Thank you.

In our county, only 25% of us are Democrats, but we count, we care, and we are obeying the governor's directives.

[shockey80]

18. I didn't say they were trouble maker.

Stop stalking me. If you don't like my posts stop reading them. What is wrong with you?

[cwydro]

20. Perhaps you should read the other posts educating you.

Divisiveness is not a good thing at this time.

So I’ll ask you the same question - What is wrong with you?

[randr]

11. You have a misunderstanding of rural America

While I do live in a blue state, the community/county I live in is very rural. And very red. The population here has more than doubled over the past 40 years or so. Mostly city people finding a piece of land and new lives. We have taken this very seriously. So far only one case found in my county, stores either closed or providing hand wipes, many people wearing face masks when I do go out. A neighboring county, San Miguel, is participating in a program to test all residents for CV so as to have data for the future.
Please do not make assumptions about other peoples than yourself, the world is much larger than you can imagine. I would add that the average education level of people living here is higher than any other city I have ever live in and I have lived in many from coast to coast.

[cwydro]

19. Thank you.

[Thirties Child]

12. I grew up at the top of the Texas Panhandle, have prettty much lived in Atlanta since 1963.

I've always felt that the plains are far more conservative than the South. The coronavirus is now hitting the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles and western Kansas, just barely hitting the plains, but hitting nonetheless. In other words, now hitting the Orange Sociopath's base. Wonder how they are going to feel about the O.S. when the people they know -- and vote with -- begin to die?

[matt819]

15. Part of me thinks. . .

Fine, let them congregate and spread the virus among themselves - backyard BBQs, church, beach, etc. And then let's see how they like their liberties infringed upon when they die.

Then I remind myself that they can and will, gleefully I suspect, infect others. And that tempers my attitude a bit.

But just a bit.

[dalton99a]

16. They will see deaths

[Liberal In Texas]

21. And there is no testing or very little.

Which is the biggest disgrace about how Deadbeat Donnie has handled this crisis.

[jmg257]

22. Anyone you know specifically? I know a few - they seem to be taking it very seriously...

more than some on this site, in fact.

IOW, they seem about as worried as anyone else.

[cwydro]

23. Same here.

I live in a red county.

We locked down early, and lately everyone seems to be wearing masks.