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.
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I don’t see them as countrymen anymore.
They’re an unwelcome occupying enemy at this point.
enough of the commie red-blue nonsense
UK and others still use red or Leftist election tracking.
yet thy call urban areas “smart growth” because it maximizes population density/property values.
Blue State Flu
You don’t say.
One just has an IR and laser to point, with a digital number readout, the other has a video screen that shows full body/surroundins.
I’d prefer the latter, if I were rich.
:)
Yeah, but per videos from Singapore, they’re using the first type, which is the one you’re talking about.
I use them to check snake heat pad temps.
Wouldn’t want one pointed at *my* face because of the laser.
Exactly.
Yes, that is the obvious point which the author of this article is assiduously attempting to obscure.
Regards,
They are available without lasers for very close work, and there are medical-certified versions.
The only ways my lifestyle has changed is in areas where I have no choice. Other than that, nothing has changed. My take is that the best way to fight the disease and the economic downturn is to live your life as normal.
It’s what Londoners did during the V-1 onslaught during WWII. Only cowards fail to do this.
We’re 66. My wife is more concerned about getting the flu than this.
We do the same. Our restaurants have good people who need our business. My husband is higher risk after his bypass... but we aren’t really the panicky apes. People hiding under tables at the behest of the media will kill far more people by trashing the economy than the virus. I work in a hospital, our staff is amazing.
Communism is a, "one size fits all" system of governance.
It’s not red vs blue it’s Godly vs Godless
Luckily my daughter escaped NYC and is able to wait out the epidemic with us here in SC. Life is pretty calm here.
Brownstein plays the victim card and implies that Trump is allowing red states to suffer. The left touted the benefits of living in dense urban areas. Proven wrong again, they’re squealing like pigs. The left is mentally ill.
And large homeless congregations in those large cities with trash every where, shit in the streets, junkies everywhere, are just a perfect place to stew up disease.
That would only work as long as most of the people culled were older, straight, white Men. If by chance the majority were people of color, worse yet WoC or members of one of the government approved pervert groups the cries of ….ism would be defining. We should have learned from the early AIDs years. We all knew who it affected, how and why, but everyone had to be treated like it was a plague that could kill anyone.
“Escape From NY” great movie.
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