US Cases: 6,992,874*
US Deaths: 195,696*
Worldwide Cases: 32,471,119*
Worldwide Deaths: 987,593*
* - Numbers are a lower bound. True numbers are being suppressed by the Trump administration
People are literally dying to support Trump. Despite the fact that Trump knew all the way back in February that #COVID19 is spread through the air, and is much deadlier than the seasonal flu, he continues to have in-person rallies, and idiots continue to attend them, mostly without wearing a mask.
And it's had a predictable result:
- Rural America’s 1,976 rural (or nonmetropolitan) counties produced 53,852 new Covid-19 infections last week, an increase of more than 12,000 cases from the previous week.
- The number of coronavirus-related deaths in rural America last week was 1,148, an increase of 189.
- Nearly half (45%) of the nation’s rural counties were on the red-zone list last week.
- The number of new coronavirus deaths and infections is disproportionately rural. While rural counties represent only about 14% of the U.S. population, they produced 19.7% of the Covid-19 deaths and 18.8% of the new infections last week.
And of course, as we all know, these rural counties tend to be disproportionately populated with Trump supporters. Apparently Trump doesn't care that his rallies are killing his own supporters, and astonishingly enough, his supporters don't care, either.
It will be fascinating to read what the historians 50 years from now have to say about the Trump era.
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