Red- State Covid Boom-- Two Brutal Graphics

[appalachiablue]

'Red- State Covid Boom-- Two Brutal Graphics,' Daily Kos, May 23, 2020.



- LIKE POLITICAL MEASLES, covid's poison spreads to red Trump counties South and MidWest.

TRUMP’S VOTER-BASE COVID HARA-KIRI CONTINUES: This map and chart show the rise in pandemic spread to Southern and MidWestern states that voted for The Donald in 2016.

As Trump whips governors to reopen prematurely, we’ll see more red-state covid saturation as the 18,000-lie Twit finagles us into a steeper national plunge into mass-murder and bankruptcy.

Brookings Institute analysis from William H. Frey (map & chart from that report):

“While many large metro areas in all regions registered high COVID-19 prevalence, there was a bigger shift to populations in smaller places and, increasingly, nonmetropolitan counties particularly in the South and Midwest."

Covid political map, May 10 (red = Donald 2016):






- Rate of Red-County Infection Accelerating

From March 30 to April 19 (three weeks), 440 Trump counties went into high covid prevalence—more than twice as many as the 215 Clinton counties that did so.

During the next three weeks, April 20 to May 10 (Mother’s Day), 548 more Trump counties got real sick, over five times as many as the 102 Clinton counties that did so.

And thanks to Donald’s selfish-minded recklessness, there’s very little stopping this—until all counties are highly infected.

Update: For the week May 11-17, infected Trump counties increased by 149, while the Clinton county total added just 25...

*Read More, https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/5/23/1947089/-Red-State-Covid-Boom-Two-Brutal-Graphics?utm_campaign=trending

[Newest Reality]

1. Thanks...

Sometimes a picture does say a thousand words. Those charts make sense.

[appalachiablue]

2. TX looks almost unscathed compared to its east, so far-

[Igel]

7. What they don't show

is that TX has about 30 million people, and about half of them are in the blue blips.

It's like the small blue patches for NY--the red patches may also be "high prevalence" but even if you say high is > 100 there's a difference between 101 and 2000.

Pick a different cut-off, you get a completely different picture. Yet it's this precise picture that matters--data marshalled for an argument, and selected to win that particular rhetorical point.

Before looking at the conclusion, you examine the methodology and the data. And then step back and say, "What would this have looked like on 3/29? 4/15? 4/30? 5/15? And why is one more privileged in any absolute sense than another?"

The one that wins is the presentation when a nail is driven through the COVID's collective heard. Everything else is a cherry that's been picked.

[cos dem]

3. Expect TX to get worse.

Of the states I'm tracking, TX and CA are currently doing the worst.
I'm tracking increase in case rate per day. My latest results are:
USA: 1.5% per day (worse than most of Europe)
CA: 2.4%
TX: 2.3%
FL: 1.6% (not that you can trust their data)
CO: 1.4%
MA: 1.1%
WA: 0.9%
NJ: 0.8%
NY: 0.4%

For comparison:
South Korea: 0.1% (they've been as low as 0.05%)
Most of Europe is around 0.2 to 0.3%

[appalachiablue]

5. Been reading about the spread, Texas, etc.

[BigmanPigman]

6. CA is increasing, not even remaining steady.

I look at the bar graphs on Worldometer. I am really pissed off too since I have been a responsible member of a society and social distanced (self quarantined for the most part) since the first week of March...10 weeks! Why are others acting like idiots in Southern CA? I think it is the younger beach goers who love to party, no matter who dies from their selfish actions.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/california/

[Karadeniz]

4. All this information is very revealing...and predictable!