Look, I live in California, and California has its problems. As do New York (City, in this case) and New Jersey.
But THIS problem isn't the "fault" of the crappy state politics. CA actually is doing well, considering. And remember, our hotspots are in the most affluent parts of the state, in communities with good hygiene.
New York City obviously is hyper-dense, and uses a lot of mass transit.
New Jersey - I can guess that a lot of that is due to work-commuters to NYC. Remember during 9/11 New Jersey was rocked with casualties.
So do us all a favor:
- if a politician is a lousy totalitarian communist a-hole, call them out on it;
-But if a state has a lot of tragic deaths they didn't ask for...
...THEN BACK THE F OFF.
I don't think it's much of a problem at all. But even so, crappy state politics make the transmission of disease much more likely, particularly in point of poverty driven by statist policies and open-door immigration.
And no, I am not going to "BACK THE F OFF" as you suggest. I'm pissed off, and I mean to show it.
don’t usually mess with someone else’s thread but just to make sure there’s no gross disinformation being spread.
per capita covid deaths (my calc from us census and theepochtimes data):
calif: 15.1 / million
ny state: 431.6* / million
*ny state is likely inflated a bit due to doggy reporting and inaccurate testing.
calif’s numbers are among the most accurate in the world, in my opinion, because the reference labs in ca are among the best in the world.