The Coronavirus

[beechnut79]

(07-11-2020, 06:22 PM)Ragnarök_62 Wrote:

(07-11-2020, 11:50 AM)TnT Wrote:

(07-09-2020, 03:37 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(07-09-2020, 02:19 PM)TnT Wrote: USA - 4.5% of the world's population.

USA - 25+% of the world's COVID-19 cases.

QED

Even worse: it's unlikely to change.  We're in for a bumpy ride.  It's best to stay out of GOP-run states if you value your health.  Either that, or have a UV light inserted... never mind.

Here in New Mexico we now have the TX and AZ flare-ups leaking into our state.  Our governor took an aggressive approach to controlling the virus and it was working.  Now we have southeast NM (near Lubbock, TX) and El Paso on the south going out of control, and of course that brings the population centers like Albuquerque, Santa Fe and Las Cruces back into the frying pan.

All while lunatic Republicans like Steve Pearce, the erstwhile U.S. Rep, prattle on about our constitutional "liberties."  They babble about the issue AS IF the economy and the pandemic are two disparate things that have no overlap.  The biology and the economics of it are that we GET the bad economic effects AND we GET the bad pandemic.  Only careful nuanced hard work and cooperation can optimize and minimize the badness on both hands.

You forgot Oklahoma. Oklahoma, where the virus comes sweeping down the plain, with an obese population and where few folks wear masks can be seen. New Mexico lives in a bad hood.

A pun on your last paragraph would be if Oklahoma got a peak in cases sooner than neighboring states. It’s nickname is the Sooner State.