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(08-10-2020 08:13 AM)Cataclysmo Wrote:  

(08-10-2020 07:30 AM)rath v2.0 Wrote:  Hell, we have a few thousand drunk boaters from all over the country on the Torch Lake Sandbar every day of the summer packed in nut to butt. No masks. No social distancing. Nobody gives a damn.

I was out boating with a crew out on Tennessee this weekend. The difference in covid culture between Ohio and TN is night and day. In Ohio you wear a mask to every resteraunt, bar, whatever. In TN they were angry that kids are going to be required to wear masks in school (I didn't have the heart to tell them about football).

But, that's pretty much emblematic of the entire south since mid-june. The small towns didn't get hit had back in April and May and got complacent. I believe it was Dr. Birx who said their concern since mid june is that rural america is finally getting hit hard.

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And when they do, it will be brutal. Nearest hospital beds dozens of miles away. Few ICU units and ventilators. Grossly underserved when looking at doctors per capita. Combine all of that with many of the same factors that afflict poor inner city neighborhoods (obesity, diabetes, lack of health insurance, drug abuse), and it will be a tragedy.