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Connecticut just updated their travel restriction list. See a pattern here? (Original Post) George II Sep 2020 OP
Dumbfuckistan Sanity Claws Sep 2020 #1
This blows several arguments out of the water. kurtcagle Sep 2020 #2
Too bad about some states... 2naSalit Sep 2020 #3

kurtcagle

(1,603 posts)
2. This blows several arguments out of the water.
Tue Sep 15, 2020, 12:06 PM
Sep 2020

There is some legitimacy in saying that Covid-19 hit most heavily originally in the coastal blue states simply by dint of their importance as ports (air and sea), and from there it spread inward. However, there is really no question that politics (and Trump) are now a major bigger predictor of Covid-19 spread than anything else.

Just for grins, I turned the above map into a 2020 electoral college map:

https://www.270towin.com/map-images/El3Bp

This accounts for 273 electoral votes where Covid-19 is still raging, and is likely going to STILL be simmering by November. Delaware and Wyoming cancel one another out. Given that IL and VA are both likely to go Biden, this means that the states now being worst hit by Covid account for only 240 votes, so Trump's support in many of those states (WI, NC, perhaps even GA) are likely MUCH softer than the media is accounting for.



2naSalit

(86,612 posts)
3. Too bad about some states...
Tue Sep 15, 2020, 12:23 PM
Sep 2020

In Montana we were doing well until tourist season happened in June, we've been in trouble ever since. I have been isolating since early March and don't expect to stop doing so until at least this time next year.

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