Posted on 03/20/2020 8:18:09 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Even a disease as far-reaching as the coronavirus hasn’t entirely crossed the chasm between red and blue America.
In several key respects, the outbreak’s early stages are unfolding very differently in Republican- and Democratic-leaning parts of the country. That disconnect is already shaping, even distorting, the nation’s response to this unprecedented challenge—and it could determine the pandemic’s ultimate political consequences as well.
A flurry of new national polls released this week reveals that while anxiety about the disease is rising on both sides of the partisan divide, Democrats consistently express much more concern about it than Republicans do, and they are much more likely to say they have changed their personal behavior as a result. A similar gap separates people who live in large metropolitan centers, which have become the foundation of the Democratic electoral coalition, from those who live in the small towns and rural areas that are the modern bedrock of the GOP.
Government responses have followed these same tracks. With a few prominent exceptions, especially Ohio, states with Republican governors have been slower, or less likely, than those run by Democrats to impose restrictions on their residents. Until earlier this week, Donald Trump downplayed the disease’s danger and overstated the extent to which the United States had “control” over it, as the conservative publication The Bulwark recently documented.
Conservative media figures including Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity likewise insisted for weeks that the media and Democrats were exaggerating the danger as a means of weakening Trump. Several Republican elected officials encouraged their constituents to visit bars and restaurants precisely when federal public-health officials were urging the opposite.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
look at NYS stats...just about all the deaths are in two counties in the NYC area....why not just close those areas off....
It started in cities with major international airports and lots of international air traffic. They are all Democrat run cities.
Am posting this urging US to do this which isn’t as disruptive and costly.
Tracking the Coronavirus:
How Crowded Asian Cities Tackle an Epidemic (Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan) New York Times ^ | March 17 2020 | Hanna Beech Posted on 3/17/2020, 10:16:30 PM by rintintin
Two hours. That’s all the time medical teams in Singapore are given to uncover the first details of how patients contracted the coronavirus and which people they might infect.
The NYS (slimes) did not go into what Singapore was doing but these postings do and explain what and how it was doing which is well worth a look.
post #7
I don’t know if there is a “Trump sucks” angle, but my sister in law lives in Singapore. This is for real. They have people assigned at entrances with hand held infra-red heat guns. She said she was scanned 5 times just today. Anyo e who get hot they are inquisition to find out who they have been with? How long they felt like this? If they ever coughed in public do. Wwho? Their shelves in stores are full and there is no pani, from what she says. This is a very effective and organized way to handle the crisis. This is Priminister Lee speech to Singapore population on what they learned from the Sars outbreak to deal with this. Trump (and I love him) could learn a lot from Singapore.
7 posted on 3/17/2020, 10:40:11 PM by Bommer
Here’s another detailed posting from another site http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3825906/posts#40
Jackson MI Nose swab tests http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3824844/posts
This is from The Atlantic.
The Atlantic is full of crabs, sewage and dead fish.
It’s also the name of an ocean.
Population density is probably the big issue in your statements. “Social distancing” factors in with houses and communities too. I have always felt that living on top of each other like they do in big cities was unhealthy.
CC
Gov4ernors want those votes.
And no media will hold them to account.
So the ‘little people’ have to suffer too.
“conservative publication The Bulwark”
ROTFLOL!
that is anti-Trumper, scumbag, NOT-conservative Bill Kristol’s little garbage website he started up after that fool drove The Weekly Standard into the ground! Leave it to an uber-leftist,lying, propaganda organ like The Atlantic to bolster their bullshit with other people’s bullshit ...
I have been advocating quarantines be set up around the big cities with the big airports for a month now.
Failure to do that has allowed the virus to spread all over the country.
I would think a handheld thermal imaging heat detector gun would be better for crowds.
You can buy them at Home Depot and Lowes.
“...Red and Blue America...”
Well, here’s the thing: there IS no “Red and Blue America”.
There are Americans.... and then there are liberals.
Poor worker from Taylorville got canned for expressing what a lot of us are already thinking: “Governor Pritzker- Screw You!
“We are going to one or two restaurants or stores a day. Restaurants we take out and stores we walk through.
We are in a low risk age group with almost no overt health issues, though. We also take our supplements and eat lower carb.”
And if you have already contracted it, you may be spreading it everywhere you go. Symptoms may not present for up to 14 days. Just because you are healthy doesn’t mean yu can’t spread it.
Come on, people, wake up!
They got a fever, and Snake Pliskin is the only cure.
“It started in cities with major international airports and lots of international air traffic.”
Likely the reason that the Colo. ski counties of Eagle, Pitkin and Gunnison have a high cases/100,000 numbers.
https://covid19.colorado.gov/data
Scroll down to map showing rates by county.
Problem is that most states are not monochrome blue—why should upstate NY suffer the same restrictions as the NYC metro area?
Or ALL of Pennsylvania—the majority of counties are still testing China Flu-free—be subjected to the same shredding of the 1st Amendment as the counties around Filthadelphia or bordering NJ?
Costco had social distancing in place. Minimum six feet separation.
Take out is a hand off.
Please check my post 23 if doing this makes sense pass it on
Thanks
Apart from the coastal areas the states with the highest levels of China Virus infestation are the major air hubs:
Colorado (Denver)
Illinois ($hitcago)
Georgia (Atlanta)
Time to shut down the petri-tubes.
Airports.
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