If there is someone out there who can fill me in on the pandemic differences between New Mexico and Texas, I'd be very curious to learn more
I vaguely recall a piece talking about how 2 counties that were next to each other were in different worlds
The reason to ask about NM vs TX is because they are right next to each other and NM (as I recall) had California's Covid restrictions but ended up with a death rate far worse than TX
There are people out there still doing the "blue good, save lives, red bad, kill people" caveman routine while pointing to charts that intentionally obscure any adjacent parameters that might actually inform us
So if you're from that area, I would love to chat about what exactly happened in these two states and how they are different from each other (in income, demographics, culture, help me understand)
Gonna start here (thanks to @beenwrekt for the pointer)
I'm trying to avoid the White House tweet b/c it is legitimately the most stomach turning thing I've seen in modern politics
The WH is attacking people who chose to cooperate w/ gov't to keep their employees paid & the entire left is dancing with glee over it
At least when Trump was a shit, most of the people on the right were like "stop being a shit" or "stop tweeting, you fucking idiot"
Not here
People I respected are throwing a party around the humiliation of those who chose to pay their employees rather than fire them
In a moment of national emergency, hundreds of thousands of business were forced to close & the gov't couldn't possibly administer unemployment on that scale with that speed
So the gov't said "don't fire everyone, here's some money as long as you use it for payroll"
Just casually pulled down the Covid data for the last 3 months to see what happened this summer and I'll bet you haven't seen a chart comparing vaccination rates by state to Covid deaths during that time because boy howdy that's one crazy chart
pretty much no correlation at all
South Carolina & Rhode Island had the same death rate
Alabama had 50% fewer than Massachusetts
Even my regional groupings don't seem to show any pattern
Both low and (relatively) high in the northeast. Both low and high in the south. Both low and high in the mountain states
I asked today about Covid and New Mexico & a bunch of people said that Covid hit the Navajo tribe particularly hard
And no one so far has suggested that was their fault
There was a time during the pandemic where people were suggesting it was hitting black Americans particularly hard. There are other mortality stats where POC do much worse than the average American.
There is only "you idiots were wrong and, when the time was right, I found reasons to do what you said we should be doing. You were wrong for doing what I did b/c you did it at the wrong time"
I'm sorry, but fuck you
Either admit that you were wrong or shut the fuck up
Stop telling people that you're happy that you're glad you destroyed lives but ended up agreeing with the people you destroyed only 6 months later
Say you're sorry. Tell the people you crushed that you were wrong
The most despairing thing about the elections this year is the fact that we are 2 years into a pandemic where people "on the right" were not just right, they were painfully right, they were brutally right, they were right about shit years before the experts admitted it
People fled the blue states for red states in the greatest migration this country has seen in my lifetime
Is it going to matter? idk. maybe not
And part of it is b/c I continue to run into blue state voters who legit think that Covid was 3X-5X worse in red states
covid was not 3X-5X worse in red states
It actually wasn't any worse in red states
Notice how the New York Times stopped published their "Red States drool, Blue States rule" pieces?
It's b/c their thesis was destroyed by the evidence