Coronavirus has come to Trump country

[brooklynite]

Washington Post

After months of quarantine and restrictions, a health care worker and a large group of her friends went out for a meal at a recently reopened restaurant in Florida.

She and 15 others have tested positive for the coronavirus, infections she blames on that meal.

Stories like this are what epidemiologists feared as states pushed to reopen after months of efforts to contain the virus: lax oversight and a failure of people to use protective measures such as masks in places where the virus had not receded.

What makes this story particularly telling, though, is where it occurred: Jacksonville, recently chosen by the Republican Party as the site of President Trump’s formal acceptance of his party’s nomination for November’s presidential election.

The party’s convention was originally going to be held in its entirety in Charlotte. Trump forced a change of plans, though, out of frustration that North Carolina mandated social-distancing measures intended to slow the spread of the virus. Jacksonville was more amenable to the sort of energetic crowd he wants to see. It was also more amenable to that large dinner party.

[Botany]

1. So the smart aka blue voting areas are bringing down the # of cases and the dumb ass aka red ...

... voting areas are seeing their #s going up?

[jimfields33]

2. The problem with this is that typically a lot of counties have both parties represented

My county is red but 38 percent of the voters are democratic supporters. In blue counties, a lot have 30 percent of republican supporters. It a broad brush. Just like New York City didn’t have a 100 percent democratic supporters die. I’m sure it was a mix of all political spectrum.

[stillcool]

10. It's about who controls..

state governments. Has nothing to do with which supporters get sick. We are all human beings, regardless of where we live.

[orwell]

3. This was predictable...

...due to geography and population density,

...It was avoidable except for the rank stupidity.

[Turbineguy]

4. For Trump supporters that means nothing.

They die, not because they followed Trumps medical advice, but because the stupid Doctors don't give them Hydrochloroquinine.

I get stuff on FB (friend of a friend) from a woman who's husband got Covid-19 and died. Trump had no responsibility for that. According to her there's an enormous "silent majority" about to rise up and re-elect Trump.

I once worked for a company that went bankrupt. It's amazing how self-destructive people get when faced with a need to make a change.

[enid602]

5. Classy

Bet you two to one not one of them left a tip. Real classy.

[Laelth]

6. That's an excellent graph, if you can read it. n/t

-Laelth

[Squinch]

8. It seems straightforward. Am I missing nuance?

[Laelth]

9. It's very simple, actually.

I doubt you’re missing anything. At first glance, however, it looks more complicated than it is.

All sums on any given day must equal 100 (representing 100%, on each day, of new cases of COVID-19 reported in states that Clinton won in blue vs. states that Trump won in red AND, on the right, the percentage of new cases reported in counties that Clinton won in blue vs. counties that Trump won in red).

It says that the blue counties still have more, new reported cases per day but that they are trending down as the red counties (comparatively) trend up. It says that the blue states now have fewer, new reported cases per day (and are trending down, comparatively) while the red states have passed their blue counterparts in new cases per day and that they continue to trend upward in terms of the percentage of new cases per day in the United States.

That’s a good graph because it conveys all of the above information visually in a way that is much more efficient than my writing out its conclusions in English.

-Laelth

[Hermit-The-Prog]

12. Yeah, but it's too nervous.

[hvn_nbr_2]

13. It took awhile to see that, and still...

In the absence of any info saying what percent of what the %s on the graph refer to, it took awhile to realize that the red and blue were complements and that, regardless of whatever is a percent of whatever, they have to add up to 100. But even still, are they percents of total cases, active cases, new cases, hospitalizations, or what? Maybe the article says but it's behind a paywall.

[Laelth]

14. % of new cases reported daily. That's it. n/t

-Laelth

[majam]

11. oh

OH dear lord