Thread by @gauravsabnis

I used to think the Trump gang's Sturgis super spreader would be remembered as the biggest voluntary collection of dangerous morons out to kill themselves but then sanghis got into the game.

https://twitter.com/brandybruja/status/1382895463616061444

I still can't believe that states like Idaho and South Dakota lost people in the thousands or even hundreds to this virus. You'd have to drive half an hour to get within 6 feet of a human being. They have signs like "Next gas station 85 miles". Trumpism killed them.

Look at covid numbers in comparable Australian states that are vast stretches of emptiness. I doubt if Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia had even a dozen deaths each. Most US states could have cut their losses like that if anyone except Trump had won the presidency.

You really have to see and experience and drive through the vast gorgeous emptiness that is the American northwest to realize what an insanely proactive horror achievement it was to lose thousands to a contagious disease in a time of universal mass communication.

Just to give you an idea, Idaho is so vast and empty that it records an average of just 40 flu deaths a year (NY records 5000 a year).

But Idaho managed 2000 covid deaths, which is the 50x.

NY covid deaths are about 10x.