Thursday, May 21, 2020

COVID is Coming for Rural Americans

As this real cool map shows...

It is almost like a horror story where the blob or slow moving zombies close in on the unaware or denying locals... Cue the screaming woman... :-)

And yet I keep finding people who are adamant that they do want to wear a mask when they are inside crowded buildings with other people.  Oh well... This "blob" needs unaware people to help transport and spread it. :-(
 
Now though I wish Gov Walz had opened inside eating with spacing constraints. Here is an update on Sweden vs MN...  If we had followed Sweden's method we likely would have had another 1,100 dead Minnesotans for better or worse.

Sweden Dead (3,831 of ~11 Million)
MN Dead (809 of 5.5 Million)
MN Dead by Age

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Are we normalizing the virus? Should we normalize the virus? Should we accept a higher rate of death from the virus in the same way we accept death from car accidents?

The mayor of Crystal recently sent a letter to the governor asking that a local dance studio be allowed to reopen. It was pretty clear from the letter that the authors put a higher priority on the business than safety. At the very least he viewed them as comparable. Was he right?

--Hiram

Anonymous said...

I received a letter, just yesterday, on White House stationery, personally addressed to me from the president of the United States, no less. In it, our president said that my health and safety, not to mention yours, was our "top priority". No mention was made of the economy. Should the priorities of the City of Crystal be different?

--Hiram