The AP News has the tragic facts:
U.S. voters went to the polls starkly divided on how they see President Donald Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. But in places where the virus is most rampant now, Trump enjoyed enormous support.
An Associated Press analysis reveals that in 376 counties with the highest number of new cases per capita, the overwhelming majority — 93% of those counties — went for Trump, a rate above other less severely hit areas.
Most were rural counties in Montana, the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa and Wisconsin — the kinds of areas that often have lower rates of adherence to social distancing, mask-wearing and other public health measures, and have been a focal point for much of the latest surge in cases.
But, because it’s easy to deny this sort of reality, since most of us aren’t epidemiologists nor ER personnel, it’ll just be denied, denied, denied. Because this sort of thing doesn’t happen to good, God-fearing folks.
Family may be missed, or be severely impaired by “long-Covid,” but it won’t be connected to the disdain for expert opinion. That disdain has long been one of the central themes of the GOP, conveyed by such GOP superstars as former Speaker Ryan (R-WI).
Gah!
