[Retain Mike]

Beginning May of last year, I developed an Excel spreadsheet concerning the virus relying on the John Hopkins site for virus data and Wikipedia for population and political data. I have updated it occasionally regarding the virus. The April 21 tab includes Sweden, which of course is famous for having few restrictions. As of that date, its experience in terms of deaths per million beat all but 15 of our states.

For that date I also computed the average death rate for the five adjacent states in the NE megalopolis (MA, NJ, NY, RI, CT) and it was 2,560. Most Swedes live in the southwest, which means it is also highly urbanized. Sweden’s death rate of 1,365.43 is about half for a similar population density.

For 2016 you can also note that collectively the five states had one Republican governor and ten Republicans in the Congress. Makes you suspect this is a Democrat illness.

[foundedonpurpose]

Having traveled around the country, it didn’t take long to figure out that it is a major democrat illiness.