The Coronavirus

[Eric the Green]

(06-10-2020, 07:02 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(06-10-2020, 06:30 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: States that reopened too early, like Florida, Texas and Georgia, have more daily new cases than those who didn't. Southern California is also having more new cases because it reopened too soon. The blue northern states that took action, after having the most cases and deaths earlier, are now seeing fewer daily new cases and deaths.

I suspect that the northeast had eyes too much on China and missed it coming in from Europe.  As a result of that and their population density, they got hit hard.  This made a large impression of their population, and made them execute the isolation precautions that much more effectively than the rest of the country.

But they did not isolate as well as they might.  There are still people in the northeast who go through the motions of isolation.  And much of the rest of the country has lower rates of infection due in part to such a low population density.  Their people are even less likely to take the precautions seriously.  Their governments are more apt to open up while their infection rates are going up.

I suspect they will eventually learn the lessons of the northeast, but there are enough people who are not taking the virus seriously to impede the ability to reopen.

They will experience the results of their inaction, these southern red states, but I suspect they will continue to reopen and stay open anyway. Only with new national leadership will they and thus the nation be able to curb this pandemic in the USA.

Dr. Jha, director of Harvard University's Global Health Institute, comments on this situation on the PBS Newshour:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/what-t...is-surging