Ummmm, you don"t think that is because NY numbers are skewing the picture? How could it not? Texas & NC are going to be in Serious trouble very very soon, along with other Southern States

Of course that’s all it is, just population density.

I keep hearing how the South is going to be in serious trouble because we are fat, barely alive. Ignorant, stubborn, Republican, racist, evangelical, etc. but so far we seem to be riding it out fine.

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The only reason for the lockdown was to slow the spread so hospitals would not be inundated, and to give more time for a vaccine to be developed. At some point we will all have been exposed and will either be immune or dead.

In another scenario we will kill each other in a burst of violent sectional and political warfare.

@WilliamFleming as a person who once lived in the South, a small town on the Al-Ga border, still segregated in the late 60 's, it was indeed every stereotype "live & in person". My FIL was a local Dragon, ffs.

@AnneWimsey I know, you told me before about your bad experience at Eufaula. I am very sorry that happened to you.