There’s only one problem with this article. Why is New Mexico not mentioned? Because it doesn’t fit.
People have been border jumping the entire time. The three states mentioned didn’t take off quickly and peak like most states. But there is no escape, all states will have a blow-off peak at some point and those three states are now having that.
You can change the curve shape, but the area under the curve doesn’t change. Some states just move their peak to a later date, by accident or design.
Forgot to mention something. The Colorado county I’m in right now has a lot of farming and the same legal workers come here every year. They are here now, it’s the busy season for them
We have had no explosion of cases, this county is at 55 cases for 110,000 population.
That was the deal back in March "flatten the curve", they said, which was a shorthand way of saying "don't over extend the hospitals" as happened in Italy.
The curve might change, but the integral was always going to be the same.
A couple of funny things happened on the way to the election, though. Before the riots, the goalposts moved to "contain the virus", which was impossible as it was already well on the way to being endemic. Then we had the riots and it became "there's no outdoor transmission, so it's all good".
And then there was no doubt that the virus didn't matter, it's all about November.
And with all of the graphing sites that are publicly available, now anyone can see that the "curve" of this disease is virtually the same everywhere, regardless of "lockdowns".
Watching the media spin is starting to make me dizzy.