Based on the 2016 election results you have a much better chance of escaping the coronavirus if you live in a state that President Trump won. The exceptions are Louisiana, that allowed Mardi Gras to go ahead in spite of the epidemic. This affected Mississippi as well. Pennsylvania and Michigan have democrat governors, which explains a lot. The death rates speak for themselves. A standout exception is Hawaii, highly democratic, but with the lowest death rate of all!
State Trump Deaths per State Clinton Deaths per
State Plurality milliom State plurality million
Wyoming 47.6% 29 District of Columbia 88.7% 666
West Virginia 42.2% 44 Hawaii 32.2% 12
Oklahoma 36.4% 86 California 28.8% 110
North Dakota 36.3% 85 Vermont 28.5% 88
Idaho 31.6% 46 Massachusetts 27.3% 1028
Kentucky 29.8% 99 Maryland 25.2% 430
South Dakota 29.8% 70 New York 21.3% 1546
Alabama 28.3% 133 Washington 16.2% 149
Arkansas 26.6% 45 Illinois 16.0% 436
Nebraska 26.3% 94 Rhode Island 15.6% 691
Tennessee 26.2% 56 Connecticut 13.3% 1114
Kansas 21.0% 77 New Jersey 13.2% 1327
Montana 20.0% 16 Delaware 11.5% 383
Louisiana 19.7% 611 Oregon 10.6% 37
Indiana 19.3% 326 New Mexico 8.3% 175
Missouri 19’1% 130 Virginia 4.9% 165
Mississippi 18.6% 258 Colorado 2.8% 256
Utah 18.1% 35 Nevada 2.4% 137
Alaska 15.2% 14 Maine 1.8% 70
South Carolina 14.1% 97 Minnesota 1.5% 192
Iowa 9,6% 178 New Hampshire 0.4% 188
Texas 9.2% 60
Ohio 8.6% 194
Georgia 5.7% 198
Arizona 4.1% 129
North Carolina 3.8% 92
Florida 1.3% 118
Pennsylvania 1.2% 445
Wisconsin 1.0% 104
Michigan 0.3% 556
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The main difference is public transit. The more people use public transit, the worse the epidemic.
It boggles my mind that, despite their strident public pleas for everyone to isolate/lock-down/etc., NY Gov. Cuomo and NYC Mayor de Blasio still won’t shut down the NYC mass transit system, which spreads the disease there.
In New Jersey, by order of Governor Murphy, the train cars and buses are limited to 50% of the normal number of passengers. That should reduce the number of people who a COVID-19 carrier can infect from about 90 to to about 45 per subway trip.
New York hasn’t even done that.
If one person with COVID-19 in an MTA subway car or bus coughs, everyone on board is exposed to the disease. But the politicians in charge — Democrats all! — are still running those deadly dangerous trains, subways & buses, even as they hypocritically call on the public to observe “social distancing” rules that are really only effective outdoors.
You’ve heard it said that “the business of America is business?” Well, those mayors & governors prove it: they don’t want to impede commerce, so they are are prioritizing business over human misery, and sacrificing thousands of lives — disproportionately African Americans — to try to keep commerce limping along a little longer.
The irony is that, in the long term, they’re just increasing the damage to their big city economies. Those leaders’ refusal to do what is obviously necessary to save lives is not only killing thousands of Americans, it is also making the economic catastrophe much worse. The fact is, the higher the death toll, the greater the long term economic damage.
At least de Blasio stopped encouraging New Yorkers to keep visiting bars.
Someone asked me today why Vermont has a low COVID-19 death toll, and neighboring New York has a high one. They’re both run by Democrats, so that isn’t it.
The answer is obvious: Google any town in Vermont and the word “subway,” and you’ll find sandwich shops. They do have some buses, but I’ll bet few people are riding them.
Public transit = passengers sharing air. A full subway car = about 90 people crowded together, all sharing the same air, with newly infected passengers being swapped out for fresh victims every few minutes. Could you possibly invent a more effective means of spreading an airborne disease, if you tried?
Private passenger vehicles = automatic quarantine (or, at worst, air shared by at most about 4 or 5 people, most of whom are probably already closely associated, anyhow). That’s how most people get around in the states with low COVID-19 infection and death rates.