Why Coronavirus Increasingly Exacerbates the Red-Blue Divide

[Ptarmigan]

Why Coronavirus Increasingly Exacerbates the Red-Blue Divide
https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-coronavirus-increasingly-exacerbates-the-red-blue-divide-11589810871

The coronavirus crisis once seemed to be the kind of gut-wrenching shock that would pull together a politically divided nation. Increasingly, though, it is pulling the nation apart along familiar lines.

To see why, start by looking at how the pandemic’s effects are falling along partisan lines, leaving people on both sides of the red/blue divide now feeling they are bearing unfair burdens.

Political power in the country’s states today is almost evenly split between the two parties: 26 have Republican governors, 24 have Democratic governors. Yet the coronavirus’s effects aren’t even close to falling evenly between red and blue states.

Two-thirds of confirmed coronavirus cases are in states with Democratic governors. When states are measured by the sheer number of coronavirus cases, six of the top seven have Democratic governors.  Together, those six blue states have about half of the nation’s cases, though only about a third of its population.

Coronavirus deaths tell a similar story. Eight of the nine states with the most deaths due to the virus are states with Democratic governors. When measured by deaths per capita, eight of the top nine states also have Democratic governors.

Not surprisingly, most COVID-19 cases are in blue states. The economic collapse from the pandemic could lead to civil unrest.

[dutch508]

Ironically, the covid cases here in Nebraska are located primarily in the larger eastern urban cities of Omaha, Lincoln, Norfolk, Kearny, Grand Island and Hastings. Interestingly, those are all (but for Norfolk) along I-80...

Somehow- the counties that voted for Hillary in 2016 were Douglas and Lancaster Counties... Omaha and Lincoln...

The current Democratic members of the 2019-2020 Nebraska state legislature are:

Carol Blood, District 3 Sarpy Co. South Omaha
Mike McDonnell, District 5  Douglas Co. Omaha
Machaela Cavanaugh, District 6 Douglas Co. Omaha
Tony Vargas, District 7 Douglas Co. Omaha
Megan Hunt, District 8 Douglas Co Omaha
Sara Howard, District 9 Douglas Co Omaha
Wendy DeBoer, District 10 Douglas Co. Omaha
Steve Lathrop, District 12 Douglas Co Omaha
Justin Wayne, District 13 Douglas Co Omaha
Lynne Walz, District 15 Dodge Co Fremont (north west Omaha)
Matt Hansen, District 26 Lancaster Co Lincoln
Anna Wishart, District 27 Lancaster Co Lincoln
Patty Pansing Brooks, District 28 Lancaster Co Lincoln
Kate Bolz, District 29 Lancaster Co Lincoln
Rick Kolowski, District 31 Douglas Co Omaha
Dan Quick, District 35 Hall Co Grand Island
Sue Crawford, District 45 Sarpy Co South Omaha
Adam Morfeld, District 46 Douglas Co Omaha

Now- of those:

Douglas Co 2,446 cases, 23 deaths
Sarpy Co 349 cases, 2 deaths
Lancaster Co 842 cases, 4 deaths
Dodge Co 266 Cases, 1 death
Hall Co 1,433 cases, 39 deaths

Total in Nebraska: 10,625 cases, 125 deaths

just at 50% of the cases and 55% of the deaths...

 

[thundley4]

Also, Democrat parasites are more willing to stay home while getting free money whereas conservatives know that there is no such thing as a free lunch. The piper must be paid sometime.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Also, Democrat parasites are more willing to stay home while getting free money whereas conservatives know that there is no such thing as a free lunch. The piper must be paid sometime.

That wouldn't be so unusual, the problem is they are so terrorized about their own safety they want everything else to stay shut down past the point of bankruptcy, the leaders think crashing the economy will kill Trump's chances but it isn't even about that to the followers, those little bunnies are literally scared out of their minds and don't care if the world burns as long as they don't get the virus in the process.