[CIAA-FAN]

United States
Coronavirus Cases:
430,210

Deaths:
14,736

Recovered:
22,356

[bluedog]

Interesting post in one of my fb groups.

When two maps closely resemble each other, geographers and cartographers take notice. The top map from the New York Times used cell phone data to track when people stopped traveling more than two miles due to the pandemic. It was notable that the red counties have waited far longer than people in the rest of the country, beyond March 26, and some not even well after then. I kept staring at this map, feeling that I'd seen it before somewhere.

Then it hit me that the red counties closely matched the map of the Confederacy. Just look at the difference between Virginia and West Virginia, which formed to rejoin the Union. The transitional zone on the 2020 map is in Missouri and Kentucky, two Union "border states" that retained slavery. And even though Indian Territory (later Oklahoma) was part of the Union, it also had slavery.

So what's going on here? Your guess is as good as mine. It could be an ingrained history of defying federal authority, or disregarding human rights. It could be high levels of racial inequality, but the South is hardly unique in that department. It could be conservative Trump-voting areas, but most of those areas outside the South did not hold out so long. It could be a Christian sense of invincibility, but West Virginia is just as Christian as Virginia.

Whatever it is, it's not nothing. The imprint of our history shows up in unexpected times and places. Moments of so-called "natural" disasters are when the underlying realities of our society are exposed and unveiled.

[bluedog]

Between April 12, 2009, April 10, 2010 swine flu caused 12,469 deaths. Between Feb 29-April 8, 2020 #Trumpvirus caused 14,768 deaths

[iceman4221]

Interesting post in one of my fb groups.

When two maps closely resemble each other, geographers and cartographers take notice. The top map from the New York Times used cell phone data to track when people stopped traveling more than two miles due to the pandemic. It was notable that the red counties have waited far longer than people in the rest of the country, beyond March 26, and some not even well after then. I kept staring at this map, feeling that I'd seen it before somewhere.

Then it hit me that the red counties closely matched the map of the Confederacy. Just look at the difference between Virginia and West Virginia, which formed to rejoin the Union. The transitional zone on the 2020 map is in Missouri and Kentucky, two Union "border states" that retained slavery. And even though Indian Territory (later Oklahoma) was part of the Union, it also had slavery.

So what's going on here? Your guess is as good as mine. It could be an ingrained history of defying federal authority, or disregarding human rights. It could be high levels of racial inequality, but the South is hardly unique in that department. It could be conservative Trump-voting areas, but most of those areas outside the South did not hold out so long. It could be a Christian sense of invincibility, but West Virginia is just as Christian as Virginia.

Whatever it is, it's not nothing. The imprint of our history shows up in unexpected times and places. Moments of so-called "natural" disasters are when the underlying realities of our society are exposed and unveiled.

      

[bluedog]

Between April 12, 2009, April 10, 2010 swine flu caused 12,469 deaths. Between Feb 29-April 9, 2020 #Trumpvirus caused 16,513 deaths

[CIAA-FAN]

United States
Coronavirus Cases:
468,895
 
Deaths:
16,697
 
Recovered:
25,928

[bluedog]

Between April 12, 2009, April 10, 2010 swine flu caused 12,469 deaths. Between Feb 29-April 11, 2020 #Trumpvirus caused 20,608 deaths

[CIAA-FAN]

Last updated: April 12, 2020, 18:56 GMT
United States
Coronavirus Cases:
550,655
 
Deaths:
21,667

Recovered:
31,120

[CIAA-FAN]

United States
Coronavirus Cases:
560,433

Deaths:
22,115


Recovered:
32,634

Closed Cases
54,749
Cases which had an outcome:
32,634 (60%)
Recovered / Discharged

22,115 (40%)
Deaths

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[bluedog]

Between April 12, 2009, April 10, 2010 swine flu caused 12,469 deaths. Between Feb 29-April 13, 2020 #Trumpvirus caused 23,628 death

[CIAA-FAN]

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

[Que82]

I wish OW would pin this thread.

[Que82]

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[bluedog]

Between April 12, 2009, April 10, 2010 swine flu caused 12,469 deaths. Between Feb 29-April 15, 2020 #Trumpvirus caused 30,844 deaths

[bluedog]

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