>>117473202You do realize blue states are also the most densely populated, right? Look at it this way, I'll use my home state as an example: Oklahoma should not be getting a fucking 1/5th of the daily cases California is getting with only ~10% of their population (about 4 mil people, with really only one major city and a moderate-sized city, neither of which break the 1 mil population mark). Fuck, even New York state, at a population of 19+ million with one of the densest cities in the U.S., was reported to have only ~400-800 or so daily cases reported across the week while Oklahoma is still getting wildly varied spikes of 1,000+ confirmed cases every other day coming in. New Jersey, one of the worst epicenters of the virus in North America early on, now only has 200-400 daily cases being reported throughout the week, and it has twice the population of Oklahoma and is far, far more dense (actually one of the states with the highest population density in the whole nation).
This isn't even a Republican VS. Democrat thing in my eyes, the Democrats were sure as hell messy with their containment of the virus early on as well, but in the long run our current largely Republican-dominated state administration fucked us over hard when we were already in an advantageous position to stop the virus. The president dropped all responsibility on the state governments, and our state government dropped it on the mayors when they were explicitly asking the state to take the responsibility of leadership. We only just recently started getting actual local-level mask orders which have been softening the spread, but shit's already been fucked.
If it's any sign at all, the Republicans dropped the ball so hard, in fact, that Oklahoma, a state in which all counties have voted Republican in all elections since Dubya started running, voted to expand fucking Medicaid/Obamacare the other month. I have no idea what timeline I'm even in anymore.
