Horowitz: Border state surge: Rise in serious southwestern cases driven by border-crossers from Mexico

cr ^ | 6/26/20 | Daniel Horowitz

[conservative98]

Why should Americans in border states have to go back into lockdown and be treated like criminals by a government that failed to lock down the border when Mexico experienced its worst surge of coronavirus in late May?

Despite the mounting evidence that the worst part of the surge in the southwest is the result of cross-border travel beginning in May, government officials continue to act as if this is a domestic problem and that somehow Americans have been careless in mitigating the virus. They are using the results of their failure to lock down the border as a pretext to lock down Americans. Talk about chutzpah.

Nobody captured the essence of what is going on at the border better than Brownsville public health director Arturo Rodriguez. While explaining the rising cases and even deaths, he recently said, “In other words, you have three rates: the U.S., Mexico and your border rate.”

America experienced its peak in March and April. Mexico experienced its peak in May and June. The border states, which were barely affected by the original American epidemiological curve, are now getting nailed by Mexico’s curve.

Just how prominent is the surge on the border relative to the rest of the country? Data analyst and sportscaster Kyle Lamb, who joined my podcast last Friday, prepared a chart showing the rise in cases over 21 days through June 23:

What you see is an unmistakable surge in southern California,southern Arizona,and the Rio Grande Valley counties in southeast Texas, which all share a border with the towns in Mexico that were hardest hit beginning in late May. The other counties flagged in the interior of the country are mainly small rural counties that have state or federal prisons,and the numbers are dramatically distorted by those counts, as states tested prisons

[Redwood71]

“Why should Americans in border states have to go back into lockdown and be treated like criminals by a government that failed to lock down the border when Mexico experienced its worst surge of coronavirus in late May?”

Oh, c’mon CR. Either you are idiots or cowards to not say it. IT IS AN ELECTION YEAR! Got to get them in so they can ballot liberal. They have to have someone to keep the voting numbers high and in some areas higher than the registered amount of people. This is a no-brainer.

rwood

[Captainpaintball]

Once again, a reminder thst Donald Trump is President, and they are still coming in, 8nfected.

[Captainpaintball]

RE: post 22. INFECTED, not 8fected.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Rise in Southwestern cases driven by border-crossers from Mexico."

An interesting theory, but I'll wait for some corroboration.

Also interesting is the fact that today (in Washington State) my girlfriend's health provider (Humana) sent her two free face masks, just as the pandemic was supposedly winding down here. Is the second wave being planned?

[FreedomPoster]

Ping. Would be curious knowing your informed opinion on this.