1/ Folks in Red States who think C19 isn't a threat to them are not only stupid re: the science and awful people for their nonchalance about the deaths of others, but also miss a key point. The economy of this country relies on those states they hate and cities...
2/ THOSE are the engines of growth that power the entire economy. NOT your little 1-stoplight, nobody-ever-comes-here-and-everybody-young-moves-away small towns. 40% of new jobs in past several years have been in CA, not WY/OK/NE/ID. Not AL/MS/AR...
3/ And even in the red states, it's the CITIES there and metropolitan areas that power the economy of those states too. It's not small West Texas towns with a Dairy Queen and tumbleweeds. It's Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Austin. ALL blue dots in your red states...
4/ Here in TN it's Nashville, Memphis and Chattanooga--all blue dots. NOT Bucksnort and Bug Scuffle y'all. If we die, you die. If our economy collapses y'all are done too. Without the economic dynamism powered by city folk there is no American economy....
5/ And I know, rural areas are where farming takes place and we in cities are grateful for THAT. We know we can't survive without them either. We get that. What they don't get is that w/o us they wouldn't have enuf people to sell their products to...can't sell to dead people...
6/ So we're all in this thing together and if we don't get past this tribal urban/rural civil war shit the country dies. It's precisely this "what happens to people over there doesn't effect me" nonsense that got us in this position in the first place.
