Posted on 04/11/2020 4:57:15 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Grace Rhodes was getting worried last month as she watched the coronavirus tear through New York and Chicago. But her 8,000-person hometown in southern Illinois still had no reported cases, and her boss at her pharmacy job assured her: “It’ll never get here.”
Now it has. A new wave of coronavirus cases is spreading deep into rural corners of the country where people once hoped their communities might be shielded because of their isolation from hard-hit urban centers and the natural social distancing of life in the countryside.
The coronavirus has officially reached nearly three-quarters of the country’s rural counties, with 1 in 7 reporting at least one death. Doctors and elected officials are warning that a late-arriving wave of illness could overwhelm rural communities that are older, poorer and sicker than much of the country, and already dangerously short on medical help.
“Everybody never really thought it would get to us,” said Rhodes, 18, who is studying to become a nurse. “A lot of people are in denial.”
With 42 states now urging people to stay at home, the last holdouts are the Republican governors of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa and Arkansas. Gov. Kristi Noem of South Dakota has suggested that the stricter measures violated personal liberties, and she said her state’s rural character made it better positioned to handle the outbreak.
“South Dakota is not New York City,” Noem said at a news conference last week.
But many rural doctors, leaders and health experts worry that is exactly where their communities are heading, and that they will have fewer hospital beds, ventilators and nurses to handle the onslaught.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Fear Bros need to be banned!
Nothing wrong with that. In the end, it’s “look out for your own”, because they sure aren’t looking out for you.
It’s become a wailing on FR to bellow to “Open America Up!” to FR readers, like we’re the ones causing this, or indeed have any say.
The “un-lockdown” is going to have to be a work of art, though.
America is mobile. You screw up and see any rise in infection in NYC, or any urban hot-spot, and you’re going to see the rats on the ropes.
If there is any validity to this story you will find every case involves contact with some city-slicker who was a carrier.
Spreading fear so they can continue to control everyone.
“It gets one thing right, though. Rural America is shielded by distance.
There is no magic to a virus. It still has to get to you.”
Seeing a lot of New York tags appear in my remote area in the Carolina mountains.
I am not really seeing this on the Coronavirus tracker linked below.
It is not as if the virus stops at the state line, but I am not seeing the dramatic infection rates in these rural states. It looks like, outisde of congested metropolitan areas, the infection rates are very mild. Sure, it is getting around, but not very fast in rural areas. I hope nobody thought they were immune or would not have it spread to them at all. That is a pretty unrealistic expectation for a disease. They get around.
Seeing a lot of New York tags appear in my remote area in the Carolina mountains.
For those of you who don't know anything about the geography of Southern Illinois, let me clue you in. The town of Murphysboro is just down Illinois Router 13 from Carbondale, IL. Carbondale is home to Southern Illinois University.
(old joke: the other nickname for this place of learning is "so ill, U". But I digress.)
SIU has a diverse student population, including a number of foreign exchange students. Some of the student body hails from ... wait for it ... Chicago! So the dots are much closer together than the story would indicate.
Now you know the rest of the story.
Actually incidence in small towns and rural areas is quite low.....after all, they don’t rely on public transport nor do they have Mardi Gras or gay pride parades all of which are great at spreading the virus.
This article from the racist New York Times completely bereft of anything but anecdotes from a single source strikes me as fearmongering.....an attempt by Leftist big city dwellers to claim they’re not the only ones who are heavily infected when we all know the opposite is true. Even upstate New York has not seen many cases.
Grace’s boss is obviously the retard. It will be interesting to see the retards who manage to survive it. Maybe they’ll act even more like zombies then.
Nearly half of severe COVID-19 cases showed neurological symptoms
https://nypost.com/2020/04/10/nearly-half-of-severe-covid-19-cases-showed-neurological-symptoms/
We were also told about the inevitability of heterosexual AIDS.
New York City paramedic who sifted through the rubble at Ground Zero after 9/11 looking for body parts says coronavirus pandemic is worse than the terrorist attacks
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8208181/NYC-paramedic-worked-Ground-Zero-9-11-says-coronavirus-pandemic-worse-attacks.html
How about all the other native tribes and reservations in the US? There are scores more, how are their dealings with the virus.
One possibility noted by some is the Asian ancestry via the land bridge that the western tribes are thought to have emigrated from. It has been said this virus hits the Asians with a much harder impact.
Doesn't answer the rapid explosion of cases in these 3 areas. If no China travel or visitors then why this rapid large infection vector ?
Anyone who has ever traveled the Navajo reservation has seen how desolate and sparesly populated the area is. The 2 Pueblos hit last week are different, those are tribes clustered into a small community.
I video chatting with a family member yesterday..and as soon as i hung up ..i noticed i had a slight cough.
Now today i can’t smell the cat?
Which is strange because i don’t own a cat.
Maybe i should see a doctor..although, i am not allowed to leave my house!
Of course that's long been debunked as false. So why keep saying it?
See as adults we should be able to make out decisions about our own risk tolerance.
That's not how a pandemic works. You don't just put yourself at risk. The careless actions of one person can infect thousands of other people as a cluster grows exponentially.
Facts matter. Reality matters.
That said, I do think this article is mostly bunk, as people in rural and suburban areas actually can practice social distancing and even go outside and walk around considerable distances without coming into close contact with another person. That is not the case in compact urban area...you are in a compact apartment complex, you encounter areas with other people outside your household immediate just stepping outside of your door. It can indeed spread in these area, but cannot spread as rapidly as people are not gathered in large crowds in these areas unless many people are deliberately careless.
I see neighbor maybe once every two months...here in Florida. It’s going to take a while to spread, so there’s not going to be an “overwhelming” of the system in rural areas, not even if everyone eventually gets it, because the cases are going to be far apart in time.
OMG the doom and gloom on this site has become ridiculous we are the smartest people on this planet and half of us are curled up in a fetal position lapping up every damn word the media is screaming!! WTH!!
Sickening isn’t it?
“when the history books are written ... A country destroyed by hysteria”
After all we’ve accomplished, centuries of courage and successes, saving the world at least a couple times, it came to this. Hard to believe. Embarrassing.
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