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Originally Posted by Kelhus100
I looked at Texas and the top 3 counties in Covid cases and deaths Hillary Clinton handily won in 2016. In Florida Dade County has the giants share of the cases, and again solid blue county.
If you broke down county by county of the USA and just looked at the political breakdown, if you were trying to construct any data driven political thesis of Covid, it would be that it is a Democratic disease.
Demographic breakdown of Covid sufferers would corroborate the same thesis.
I am not Smudger. I definitely think Trump and right wing have extremely horrible political messaging, and it is definitely costing lives. But the political narrative that the media (and this thread) is pumping out just doesn't match the data; unless you take a giant deductive leap that overwhelmingly Democratic voters are taking their marching orders from President Trump, Fox News and right wing governors, which doesn't seem plausible at all.
that has been explained.
POC tend to be overly represented to a massive degree within the front line workers bracket. Whether that be in health care or the food industry or the food processing plants or working in nursing homes.
They also tend to be disproportionately poorer with less health care access
and use public transit more.
So while wealthier people with discretion stay home and shelter in place these people keep going to work to indoor spaces where social distancing is not possible.
And I don't think these facts escape Trump and his team. Normally I wouild not want to suggest seriously as anyone would be so callous about deaths that they would see it as a benefit but i think Trump and team see this as a no lose situation.
They look at it as :
- the economy opening up again is a win
- IF covid does not spread badly again, win
- IF Covid does spread again badly it will disproportionately kill off POC who typically vote against me, win
- IF Covid is raging around election time and Covid is disproportionately raving POC they may vote in lower percentages, win
Trump is a guy who believes every single vote counts. He would do anything for one more vote. And a vote by subtraction is as good or better than a vote by addition.