How conspiracy theories get started.
I was looking at the NY Times outbreak tracker page:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html
I highly recommend it. Anyway, I was looking at the overall map of the U.S. and the numerous small outbreaks in lightly populated areas and my first reaction was, "OMG! That's almost a regular pattern, like it was seeded!"
After a while, I calmed down, extricated my head from my ass, and realized that what I was looking at was basically population distribution. In sparsely populated areas, small towns tend to be spaced at vaguely regular intervals. Put two small towns right next to each other and you end up with one less-small town. Space three small towns too close to each other and there's a good chance that the two outer ones will out-compete the middle one and it will fade away.
No, George Soros did not fly over Mississippi dispensing coronavirus-laden chemtrails. The outbreaks occur in the patterns they do because that's where the people are.
(Posted in Lounge because it's pretty lightweight stuff)
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