Counties without coronavirus
are mostly rural, poor
Associated Press,
by
Morgan Lee
&
Nicky Forster
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
3/29/2020 9:54:14 AM
SANTA FE, N.M. — As the coronavirus rages across the United States, mainly in large urban areas, more than a third of U.S. counties have yet to report a single positive test result for COVID-19 infections, an analysis by The Associated Press shows. Data compiled by John Hopkins University shows that 1,297 counties have no confirmed cases of COVID-19 out of 3,142 counties nationwide. Of the counties without positive tests, 85% are in rural areas — from predominantly white communities in Appalachia and the Great Plains to majority Hispanic and Native American stretches of the American Southwest — that generally have less everyday
Reply 1 - Posted by:
planetgeo 3/29/2020 10:27:55 AM (No. 361628)
So in other words, when the plague kills off most of the blue counties, America will rebuild with red counties in charge? ...very interesting...
Forgive me, Lord, for the momentary and totally theoretical thoughts. Sort of.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
cor-vet 3/29/2020 10:34:37 AM (No. 361634)
I live in a rural parish in S. Louisiana, and I believe we have had one virus case. You can still go shopping for necessities and store shelves are not picked clean. People practice social distancing and respect the rules. I guess we are missing out on all of the advantages of living in an elite metropolitan enclave. Large, congested cities are 30 minutes away, if you absolutely have need of something, but other than an over abundance of restaurants, we pretty much have everything we need here at home. Right now, restaurants are closed, so big, congested cities don't matter anyway. It's a bit snobbish to look down on us like we're the poor relatives, but for the most part, people don't care what people think of us, at least I don't. The cost of living is cheaper and neighbors still know each other and help each other in bad times. We think the elites in the metropolitan areas are the poor ones. We're oil field workers, truck drivers, farmers and ranchers and we're doing just fine. I'm sorry for the long rant, but sometimes you just get tired of your supposed 'betters' loking down on you.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
tsquare 3/29/2020 10:36:14 AM (No. 361636)
Golly. We need to share with the poor counties s/off
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
CharlieHorse 3/29/2020 10:39:29 AM (No. 361642)
Odd how rural areas are referred to as "poor". My wealth is invested in fresh air, distant neighbors and the freedom that acreage gives me........that's my 401.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
kono 3/29/2020 11:18:10 AM (No. 361696)
No big mystery to the disparity of infections -- lower population density generally leads to having fewer physical encounters with others, which gives fewer opportunities for transmission. And whether it's due to lower populations or to lower incomes, there tends to be less economic activity overall in rural counties and less world travel (which, again, might be reasonably associated with those places having less transmission of the illness).
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
franq 3/29/2020 11:18:19 AM (No. 361697)
Good for you #2. I long for what you have.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
3XALADY 3/29/2020 11:18:33 AM (No. 361698)
I live in the country where possums are watchdogs and hoot owls are chickens. No virus here. The store in town has pretty much everything except paper and cleaning stuff and canned soup and vegetables, but we will make it.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
HisHandmaiden 3/29/2020 11:25:59 AM (No. 361712)
Sorry, could not finish reading this ill-informed writer/article...
My MIT/Wesleyan-educated dear dad, bought our family a 100+ acre homestead 40 miles from BWI airport where he worked as a defense contractor. He loved his children, my brother and me so much, he wanted to teach us responsibility as we milked 80+ registered Holsteins and Gurnseys, every day, 4am and 4pm, then he drove to work at 6:30am.
I learned to drive baling hay on the gently-rolling hillsides at 14, and loved all my girls! We belonged the our local 4-H club and showed yearlings and cows at county and state fairs, even the Dairy Cattle Congress in Waterloo, Iowa... One All-American 3-y-old, knew she was a Champion, and would come up the exit ramp to the milking parlor to be first to get milked...
It was work, but a wonderful life... and why I now live in safe, well Monterey, not Santa Clara county in Silicon Valley, 70 miles away...
Don’t try condescension, UPI, we are America’s Heartland!
KAG
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 3/29/2020 12:12:20 PM (No. 361812)
Folks who haven't been to Italy or China lately.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 3/29/2020 12:13:41 PM (No. 361816)
If it weren't for a grandchild, I'd still be living in a ghost town next to the railroad tracks. Poor? hardly.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
bad-hair 3/29/2020 12:35:45 PM (No. 361858)
So if you'd rather be dead than poor ?
He is richest whose needs are least.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Kate318 3/29/2020 12:39:19 PM (No. 361871)
Say it ain’t so...
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 3/29/2020 1:10:12 PM (No. 361912)
File under "Duh." Any look at an infection map will reveal that the areas with the greatest number of infections are the areas with the highest urban population density.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
JL80863 3/29/2020 3:45:35 PM (No. 362082)
Yes, we rubes in "fly over country" are dirt poor and uneducated while you sophisticated snarks are so wise. Do you happen to live in NYC? Residents in that democrat paradise are dropping like flies.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 3/29/2020 4:09:39 PM (No. 362115)
I sense disappointment from this reporterette.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Foghorn 3/29/2020 7:07:29 PM (No. 362284)
What was your first clue Sherlock? If you looked at early maps of the nation that was evident from the beginning.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
MickTurn 3/29/2020 9:41:14 PM (No. 362407)
Well if the Rich and Famous smart people are getting Corona Virus, maybe they need to reevaluate their brain power!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
judy 3/30/2020 3:42:21 AM (No. 362559)
AP ...there is poor in every county rural or urban! Our county has no cases or deaths from the virus . We have poor, rich, very rich, very poor, middle class, upper middle class.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 3/30/2020 1:30:44 PM (No. 363045)
So commie warthog Jennifer Rubin was squeezing out Fake News flatulence when she wishfully stated that GOPs would die off in greater numbers?
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