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Aug 25 5 tweets 2 min read
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)

propublica.org/article/the-lo…

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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 Image
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
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Assuming the validity of this data (which I don't)...

Who, exactly, are we supposed to be angry at for mortality differences?

Are we supposed to be angry at Republicans for dying?

B/c we don't treat any other group like that.
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.

But no one blames them. That would be gross.
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Just a chirpy personal tale with no downsides
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I'm sorry, but fuck you
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