Republican governed southern states are getting clobbered.

[Elwood P Dowd]

We have some real repuke losers running the show down here and killing people with their stupidity. More new cases from the south than the Northeast, West, and Midwest combined. From the BBC......

[pwb]

1. Were these people under a rock for the last three months while New York

and the Northeast were fighting for their lives? This is the Fox News, talk radio, republican hoax lag.

[Elwood P Dowd]

3. Most of the repukes I know down here have memorized all the main Fox, Limbaugh, Trump

talking points. The more moderate repukes and independents though are starting to give up on Trump.

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. Republican $$$$ priority.

Ala. Gov. backed down after initial 2 week stay at home order.
You can see the graph starts going up about 2 weeks after Memorial Day re-opening.

Despite the obvious evidence, the Gov. refuses lockdown now, and refuses to order masks.
She says there is no way to make people obey the order ( despite people still getting tickets for no seatbelts).

So we are wide open for the virus.

Fortunately our rural small town offers more protection than being in one of the urban areas.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

7. The people in the southern states acted like they were special/immune

and that it was a liberal/blue state problem. They are now learning otherwise

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. Holy Crap! The South doesn't appear to be peaking anytime soon....

It's going to be way worse than NY/NJ in total numbers....

[lpbk2713]

4. DeSantis and the Chamber of Commerce don't want to close up any businesses.

Not when there is a buck to be made. Anyone who gets CV it's their tough luck.

[flor-de-jasmim]

5. They were counting on the virus to disappear in the heat of the Southern summer, I guess.

[Elwood P Dowd]

9. This map pretty much shows the claim of summer heat killing the virus is an old wives' tale.

The southwest warm weather states not doing well either.

[fescuerescue]

12. Yea the epidemiologist were flat wrong on that one

I really wish they weren't.

This isn't going to going to behave like the flu.

[GulfCoast66]

13. They forgot Air Conditioning!

Being outdoors does seem to be the safest place to be. And that is probably helping the northern states where people are actually outside this time of year.

But few Floridians are outside much this time a year. Cooped in offices, restaurants and bars with the air continually recycling. No one is using outside dining down here.

There is only 2 places I feel safe. In my house and on the boat in the gulf.

[malaise]

8. And they were warned

Please proceed ReTHUGs

[Elwood P Dowd]

10. When you warn them, they just double down.......

and wind up dead!

[Wounded Bear]

11. You should learn from other people's mistakes...

You don't have time to make them all yourself.

And old proverb that apparently hasn't circulated much south of the Mason-Dixon Line.