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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCoronavirus Was Slow to Spread to Rural America. Not Anymore.
Grace Rhodes was getting worried last month as she watched the coronavirus tear through New York and Chicago. But her 8,000-person hometown in southern Illinois still had no reported cases, and her boss at her pharmacy job assured her: Itll never get here.
Now it has. A new wave of coronavirus cases is spreading deep into rural corners of the country where people once hoped their communities might be shielded because of their isolation from hard-hit urban centers and the natural social distancing of life in the countryside.
The coronavirus has officially reached nearly three-quarters of the countrys rural counties, with 1 in 7 reporting at least one death. Doctors and elected officials are warning that a late-arriving wave of illness could overwhelm rural communities that are older, poorer and sicker than much of the country, and already dangerously short on medical help.
Everybody never really thought it would get to us, said Rhodes, 18, who is studying to become a nurse. A lot of people are in denial.
https://news.yahoo.com/coronavirus-slow-spread-rural-america-122824791.html
idziak4ever1234
(1,257 posts)Azathoth
(4,611 posts)The exact reasoning they will use is TBD, but the conclusion has already been drawn.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)between city people and country folks, I'm sure that Trump will exacerbate that in his efforts to keep their votes.
meadowlander
(4,411 posts)and that's why their hospitals are overrun.
Not because their Republican state governments have been defunding hospitals for decades, their Republican governors were too late issuing stay and home orders and Trump botched the testing.
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)Now, because that will be his supporters' blood.
The virus will kill disproportionately among communities of color and rural poor.
He will be killing off his base.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,491 posts)Windy City Charlie
(1,178 posts)Depending on what part of southern Illinois they're talking about, there's not a major medical center anywhere close.
robbedvoter
(28,290 posts)🍊 thought only urba areas can get it and was probably happy to see us decimated. Those media darlings, rural diners better be able to use ventilators, because hospitals there - not so many.
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)What kind of thinking is that, though?
When you see a fire nearby, you might want to watch for the wind to change and start doing something to prepare for a blaze.
I mean, just HOW did they imagine it would "never get here"? An invisible shield? Not understanding how it spreads?
Rural areas do have some people with intelligence common sense, (I have lived in a couple). Maybe they are just deteriorating in general for various reasons and due to conditions?
iemitsu
(3,888 posts)blood of Christ. I saw them on the television coming out of church services.
TheBlackAdder
(28,232 posts).
Of course, they'll spin it as God wanted to take them into the Kingdom of Heaven.
Everyone else who dies from it was a sinner, but not their loved ones.
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iemitsu
(3,888 posts)phylny
(8,392 posts)New York, wed all be screaming. Im Christian, a Democrat, and I live in a rural area. There are plenty of people right here on DU who are just like me. None of this is funny. As a former New Yorker, I ask that all this finger pointing and sneering stop, please.
HarlanPepper
(2,042 posts)Its a bad look, IMO.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,052 posts)15 posted on 4/10/2020 by Daniel Ramsey (Thank YOU
President Trump, finally we can do what America does best, to be the best)
the place now! Make mask wearing mandatory for 2 weeks. Returaunts
dine out only and hydroxychloquine MANDATORY treatment for any
patients. Oh and kill Fauxi and Blix as traitors.
25 posted on 4/10/2020 by Bommer (I am a MAGA-Deplorian!
It is the way! It is the only way!)
They think the economic depression will kill more people than the virus ever will.
the mental health toll - suicides and depression - that the shutdown
and mass unemployment is causing. He has to go on the offensive with
lots of hard information and human tragedy stories. The well paid
Fauci and Blix are let them eat cake elitists , and they need to be
exposed for their callousness
5 posted on 4/10/2020 by rintintin (qu)
This will come down in history as the biggest ill adviced hysteria in
the history of the USA and trump will be faulted! The majority of our
hospitals IN EL PASO ARE EMPTY! There is a doctor in El Paso who said
that the max we have here a border town city of coronavirus patients
is.... you ready?.., 50! We shut down our city for 50! No deaths!!!!!!
Where are the 100 hundreds of thousands of deaths????!!! ! BIGGEST
PANDEMIC CREATED BY THE DEEP STATE and the evil as hell mediaVOMITS!!
BIGGEST!! DUPED DUPED DUPED!!!
17 posted on 4/8/2020 by RoseofTexas
AwakeAtLast
(14,134 posts)Crunchy Frog
(26,686 posts)Response to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)
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Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Growing up in Western Wisconsin,this is the time of year when all hell breaks
lose for cold and flu's. By the first of May,everyone in the Northern part of the State has a red chapped nose and face.
Enjoy the next few days.
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Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)HarlanPepper
(2,042 posts)You know your community, your situation on the ground etc. The pop up epidemiologists here do not, much as they think they do.
FBaggins
(26,775 posts)Wisconsins cold and flu season isnt in April and May. It usually peaks in Jan/Feb like much of the country.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)usually when the snow banks melted down and the Ditches were full .
FBaggins
(26,775 posts)Or maybe the state has been lying about the numbers for years?
https://infogram.com/seasonal-flu-cases-in-wisconsin-2009-18-1h7z2l1oxpny4ow
stillcool
(32,626 posts)peak projection dates...not that I understand the math, or the virus, but it's interesting.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/04/07/825479416/new-yorks-coronavirus-deaths-may-level-off-soon-when-might-your-state-s-peak
Steelrolled
(2,022 posts)Hope it is accurate, but seems a little too good to be true.
TeamPooka
(24,265 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,751 posts)Talitha
(6,626 posts)It's a virus.... eventually it will probably find its way to Antarctica.
What scares me is that my rural WI county (and others) don't have any ICU beds.
Fishing season opens soon - unless they cancel it, but last time I checked the DNR website it was still on. They're asking people to fish in their own area which is fine for those who live here. BUT what about the tourists that flock into the area every year?
People will be coming here to open their cabins, too. I've heard that our Governor has asked them not to do it but good luck with that.
AwakeAtLast
(14,134 posts)Most towns here have less than 3,000 and not every county has a hospital. Mine does not.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)will make their chances of recovery slimmer than for those in northeastern/western states. See map below.
https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/brfss_2018_obesity-overall.svg
TheBlackAdder
(28,232 posts).
It's still at 390, with 17,531 cases. Slightly higher than the ratio that Texas is reporting 242 with 12226 infected.
This seems out of sync with the other states.
https://infection2020.com/
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TeamPooka
(24,265 posts)Flaleftist
(3,473 posts)And these rural areas are less equipped to handle ICU/ vent patients. And they still seem to think large gatherings are okay because "freedom"
underpants
(182,956 posts)I know Ive been reading about that for at least a year.
Lars39
(26,117 posts)Conformity...They act like because theyve never been 50 miles away from their hometown that no one else ever travels either.
Crunchy Frog
(26,686 posts)if they were vulnerable, then small town America is gonna get it.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,498 posts)Excerpts:
Then somebody at the local church started to feel unwell a person who eventually tested positive for coronavirus.
Then it was just a matter of time, said Mangums mayor, Mary Jane Scott. Before realizing they were infected, several people who eventually tested positive for the virus had moved about widely through the city, including to the local nursing home, which now has a cluster of cases.
People thinking they're immune because of status, wealth or religion is far too commonplace.
But in America, freedom trumps all reasoning.......
TreadSoftly
(219 posts)I have begun to worry whether 14 days quarantine is enough.
I lately hear "just spent time with someone who moved from NYC to PA now to here" and "just moved my parent(s) here" so the virus gets a free ride to the clean countryside.
We needed good testing yesterday.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,498 posts)along with the stay-at-home mantra.
Agree, confirmed clean test results prior to other than local travel would be a sound policy, although almost impossible to achieve in our "free" society.