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Coronavirus is spiking disproportionately in counties that voted for Trump in 2016

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Coronavirus is spiking disproportionately in counties that voted for Trump in 2016


From COVID-19 continues spreading into counties with strong Trump support

"As more parts of America proclaim themselves
open for business, COVID-19 continues to expand into new counties and states in many areas with demographic and political orientations favorable to President Donald Trump. This is especially noteworthy given that the president has
pushed for an even faster reopening of the U.S. economy.

Now, for four weeks running, counties newly designated with a high prevalence of COVID-19 cases were more likely to have voted for Trump than for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, according to our analyses
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There is a clear trend in the works among counties now experiencing a high COVID-19 prevalence for the first time. Compared to the counties where the pandemic first hit, these they look much more like the rest of America, and in particular, reflect the kinds of areas that carried President Trump to victory in 2016. This suggests that rhetoric from some of the president’s supporters against maintaining public health measures may become more muted, as the nation continues to grapple with the many unknowns about COVID-19’s continued spread.
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Aletheia said:
Coronavirus is spiking disproportionately in counties that voted for Trump in 2016


From COVID-19 continues spreading into counties with strong Trump support

"As more parts of America proclaim themselves
open for business, COVID-19 continues to expand into new counties and states in many areas with demographic and political orientations favorable to President Donald Trump. This is especially noteworthy given that the president has
pushed for an even faster reopening of the U.S. economy.

Now, for four weeks running, counties newly designated with a high prevalence of COVID-19 cases were more likely to have voted for Trump than for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, according to our analyses
...
There is a clear trend in the works among counties now experiencing a high COVID-19 prevalence for the first time. Compared to the counties where the pandemic first hit, these they look much more like the rest of America, and in particular, reflect the kinds of areas that carried President Trump to victory in 2016. This suggests that rhetoric from some of the president’s supporters against maintaining public health measures may become more muted, as the nation continues to grapple with the many unknowns about COVID-19’s continued spread.
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Let me guess... Your iPod going to be rockin Kool & The Gang, and all night long you'll be singing:

"Celebrate good times, come on!"

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And yet the biggest number of casualties came from blue states, like NY, headed by their beloved governor.
 
Grim17 said:
Let me guess... Your iPod going to be rockin Kool & The Gang, and all night long you'll be singing:

"Celebrate good times, come on!"
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Raping tragedies to score imaginary political points again, Grim? I bet you don't even realize you're doing the exact thing you're accusing him of, and he hasn't even done it.

But then, the ugliness is the point.
 
Scientists originally predicted 70,000 deaths because people were social distancing.

Now they are predicting 130,000 deaths.


99.9% of them old people on social security and medicare.


I hope Trump is happy with his improved economy.
 
Aletheia said:
Coronavirus is spiking disproportionately in counties that voted for Trump in 2016


From COVID-19 continues spreading into counties with strong Trump support

"As more parts of America proclaim themselves
open for business, COVID-19 continues to expand into new counties and states in many areas with demographic and political orientations favorable to President Donald Trump. This is especially noteworthy given that the president has
pushed for an even faster reopening of the U.S. economy.

Now, for four weeks running, counties newly designated with a high prevalence of COVID-19 cases were more likely to have voted for Trump than for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, according to our analyses
...
There is a clear trend in the works among counties now experiencing a high COVID-19 prevalence for the first time. Compared to the counties where the pandemic first hit, these they look much more like the rest of America, and in particular, reflect the kinds of areas that carried President Trump to victory in 2016. This suggests that rhetoric from some of the president’s supporters against maintaining public health measures may become more muted, as the nation continues to grapple with the many unknowns about COVID-19’s continued spread.
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Sadly it's exactly as predicted. And what's most troubling is that Trump counties are more likely to have poor access to medical care, have fewer jobs that can be done from home, and have significantly less economic output to begin with.

It's really kind of heartbreaking. We know from other outbreaks that they tend to be counter intuitively more severe in rural areas. It was vital that we keep the disease from spreading into too many rural areas. But we failed. again... And now with the affluent and urban areas struggling to deal with the disease I don't know how they're going to get help.
 
Mithros said:
Sadly it's exactly as predicted. And what's most troubling is that Trump counties are more likely to have poor access to medical care, have fewer jobs that can be done from home, and have significantly less economic output to begin with.

It's really kind of heartbreaking. We know from other outbreaks that they tend to be counter intuitively more severe in rural areas. It was vital that we keep the disease from spreading into too many rural areas. But we failed. again... And now with the affluent and urban areas struggling to deal with the disease I don't know how they're going to get help.
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Damn straight. Y'all stay away with your viruses and stuff. Jest lemme eat my bugs in peace. Now these buggers over here are like a avocado on the inside once you get past the crunchy part. And them snapping turtles over there have seven differnt kinds of meat in 'em. You got your beef, chicken, pork, deer, rat, snake, possum...
 
Seeing as how these are how the counties went...

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...pretty much any spike has to be a Trump county.
 
Grim17 said:
Let me guess... Your iPod going to be rockin Kool & The Gang, and all night long you'll be singing:"Celebrate good times, come on!" .
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The new normal is that the back side of the CO VI D — 2019 bar graph is horizontal, still averaging ~ 1,500 deaths a day.

This is why work and leisure should fully open, pack them in as Trump said. Ignore Safety measures as Trump does.

I don’t advise Trump posters to look at every day bar graphs since March for the USA or the 50 states.
 
humbolt said:
Damn straight. Y'all stay away with your viruses and stuff. Jest lemme eat my bugs in peace. Now these buggers over here are like a avocado on the inside once you get past the crunchy part. And them snapping turtles over there have seven differnt kinds of meat in 'em. You got your beef, chicken, pork, deer, rat, snake, possum...
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Lol..Bigger cities seem to have longer broader outbreaks, smaller areas tend to have shorter more explosive outbreaks Urbanization and humidity shape the intensity of influenza epidemics in U.S. cities | Science.

If I had to guess. (and it's just a guess) I'd say that if you're exposed to short contact with large numbers of strangers, then you're more likely to get small background doses of a disease and are more likely to "build" a tolerance. In an isolated community you're not going to see trace amounts. When you get exposed it's going to be from someone you're close to, larges doses over long periods of time.

Now couple that with a concerted political effort to not take proper precautions and really only terrible things will happen. Things are not better than when we shut down. They're still much worse, we've just gotten used to it. There were about 1200 new cases a day when we shut down. Today we're at 20x that.
 
Mycroft said:
Seeing as how these are how the counties went...

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...pretty much any spike has to be a Trump county.
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Brookings is super conservative FYI..You'll note that the it's increasing in white, middle class counties. On March 29th the people most affected were primarily Clinton voters by a 30 point margin. As of May 10th the people affected are mostly Trump voters... by a 6 point margin. That's one of those 'Per capitas"

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Aletheia said:
Coronavirus is spiking disproportionately in counties that voted for Trump in 2016


From COVID-19 continues spreading into counties with strong Trump support

"As more parts of America proclaim themselves
open for business, COVID-19 continues to expand into new counties and states in many areas with demographic and political orientations favorable to President Donald Trump. This is especially noteworthy given that the president has
pushed for an even faster reopening of the U.S. economy.

Now, for four weeks running, counties newly designated with a high prevalence of COVID-19 cases were more likely to have voted for Trump than for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, according to our analyses
...
There is a clear trend in the works among counties now experiencing a high COVID-19 prevalence for the first time. Compared to the counties where the pandemic first hit, these they look much more like the rest of America, and in particular, reflect the kinds of areas that carried President Trump to victory in 2016. This suggests that rhetoric from some of the president’s supporters against maintaining public health measures may become more muted, as the nation continues to grapple with the many unknowns about COVID-19’s continued spread.
"
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Of course this is exactly as predicted. The flu follows this same pattern each year. Hit the densely populated areas where it can spread quickly first then more slowly invade the rural areas. With the split narrative on this virus, Democrats are far more likely to take precautions than Republicans so that doesn’t bode well for the Republican dominated rural areas. Double that problem if the rural areas follow Trump’s advice today on opening up Churches.


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George50 said:
Of course this is exactly as predicted. The flu follows this same pattern each year. Hit the densely populated areas where it can spread quickly first then more slowly invade the rural areas. With the split narrative on this virus, Democrats are far more likely to take precautions than Republicans so that doesn’t bode well for the Republican dominated rural areas. Double that problem if the rural areas follow Trump’s advice today on opening up Churches.


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Trump says he's going to order churches open. He claims they're essential. Here is what I know. I am catholic and was raised by very catholic parents. There is no way in hell I would ever cram myself into my local church as long as this virus is still lurking. I am sure there are some non-believers that will be thrilled to go to church.

Ask yourselves this. Is Donald Trump going to be in a packed church this Sunday???? Will he be wearing a mask????

To all you Trumpster Divers, watch what they do, not what they say. It just might save your life.
 
As of today, 68.6% of all U. S. deaths have been in blue states (66,029 out of 96,276) - not a good topic for the left to bring up

BTW I don't know about nationwide, but in California, most of the deaths were in counties which voted for Clinton - and it's almost a pattern of the farther left the county leans, the more severely the virus hit (not completely, but almost)
 
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Aletheia said:
Coronavirus is spiking disproportionately in counties that voted for Trump in 2016


From COVID-19 continues spreading into counties with strong Trump support

"As more parts of America proclaim themselves
open for business, COVID-19 continues to expand into new counties and states in many areas with demographic and political orientations favorable to President Donald Trump. This is especially noteworthy given that the president has
pushed for an even faster reopening of the U.S. economy.

Now, for four weeks running, counties newly designated with a high prevalence of COVID-19 cases were more likely to have voted for Trump than for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, according to our analyses
...
There is a clear trend in the works among counties now experiencing a high COVID-19 prevalence for the first time. Compared to the counties where the pandemic first hit, these they look much more like the rest of America, and in particular, reflect the kinds of areas that carried President Trump to victory in 2016. This suggests that rhetoric from some of the president’s supporters against maintaining public health measures may become more muted, as the nation continues to grapple with the many unknowns about COVID-19’s continued spread.
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Funny, I just saw the opposite reported. Not by Brookings, however.


Oops, my mistake - what I saw was that blue counties have much higher infection rates. Sorry
 
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Yeah, this is a little twisted - This is an epidemic which basically started in blue states, hit blue states and counties five times as hard as red states and counties, and now that the infections in the severely hit states have spiked, the left can finally start publishing links between political leanings and COVID infections in the states and counties that are being hit last...and lol implying that it's karma
 
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Aletheia said:
Coronavirus is spiking disproportionately in counties that voted for Trump in 2016


From COVID-19 continues spreading into counties with strong Trump support

"As more parts of America proclaim themselves
open for business, COVID-19 continues to expand into new counties and states in many areas with demographic and political orientations favorable to President Donald Trump. This is especially noteworthy given that the president has
pushed for an even faster reopening of the U.S. economy.

Now, for four weeks running, counties newly designated with a high prevalence of COVID-19 cases were more likely to have voted for Trump than for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, according to our analyses
...
There is a clear trend in the works among counties now experiencing a high COVID-19 prevalence for the first time. Compared to the counties where the pandemic first hit, these they look much more like the rest of America, and in particular, reflect the kinds of areas that carried President Trump to victory in 2016. This suggests that rhetoric from some of the president’s supporters against maintaining public health measures may become more muted, as the nation continues to grapple with the many unknowns about COVID-19’s continued spread.
"
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How sick is it that there are people who are actively seeking out stories like this?
 
swing_voter said:
Scientists originally predicted 70,000 deaths because people were social distancing.

Now they are predicting 130,000 deaths.


99.9% of them old people on social security and medicare.


I hope Trump is happy with his improved economy.
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130,000 is way low, we'll see that number in the next week or two and keep climbing. There is no number too high for trump and Repubs, $$$$ is what drives them, compassion has not been associated with the GOP for Decades
 
ReubenSherr said:
As of today, 68.6% of all U. S. deaths have been in blue states (66,029 out of 96,276) - not a good topic for the left to bring up

BTW I don't know about nationwide, but in California, most of the deaths were in counties which voted for Clinton - and it's almost a pattern of the farther left the county leans, the more severely the virus hit (not completely, but almost)
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Nothing mysterious about it. The virus is not political. It just spreads faster in cities with dense populations where Democrats tend to live and slower in Republican leaning rural areas where the population is more spread out. The flu does the same thing every year.


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Mongidig said:
How sick is it that there are people who are actively seeking out stories like this?
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Another way to look at it is that people in rural areas who believe they have been spared should read this article so they don’t let their guard down and follow Trump’s latest great idea to open all the churches this weekend.


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Some say the Trump folks are getting it. Others say it's worse for the Clinton supporters.

Reality says ...

Viruses don't give a **** about who you voted for.
 
swing_voter said:
Scientists originally predicted 70,000 deaths because people were social distancing.

Now they are predicting 130,000 deaths.


99.9% of them old people on social security and medicare.


I hope Trump is happy with his improved economy.
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You appeared to be hoping for a collapsed economy that you could use to attack Trump in the fall.
 
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