Mississippi has passed a grim milestone: Its total Covid deaths per capita exceed the toll in New York, which mostly happened early in the pandemic when we didn't know much about the disease — and didn't have vaccines 1/ 
One observation: early on people thought the pandemic was a problem for densely populated urban areas. But MS is very rural 2/
In fact, at this point there's a negative correlation between density and Covid death rates (7-day average) 3/
Obviously, low density doesn't cause Covid. Instead, it's correlated with right-wing politics and refusing vaccines in favor of livestock dewormer. 4/
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