Coronavirus Information...who do you trust?

[GMDino]

(07-16-2020, 09:17 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: The two lowest Trump states, Wyoming and South Dakota, are likely there because of population density. I mean, I still say that policies aren't really the guiding force in the number of cases. Your governor or legislature can put whatever they want in place, but if people ignore the guidance it doesn't matter. Attitudes of the population is a more important thing than who is leading the response. We've had a mask mandate in place for a while, now, but we are seeing areas where cases are on the rise because people aren't listening to the guidance.

I had a long conversation about this the other night. I had to lead our monthly commissioners' meeting because the District Commissioner is a doctor and super busy right now and I'm the Assistant District Commissioner. Our Unit Commissioners in the surrounding country were all talking about how much the units we disregarding all the guidance. It's the youth, the adults, and the parents all. My UCs actually said they are going to stop visiting in person because of their concerns over their health. We are constantly fighting this battle with our units because we want to keep everyone safe, but some people just don't want to pay attention to the data. I can almost guarantee you that if you drilled down to a locality level you would find the same correlation between 2016 election results and these mask attitudes that that graph displays between increasing cases and the election results by state.

I can only tell you that the area I live in (and you know it) was always a Democratic stronghold but Trump won here in 2016 and the attitude among the people that I know who voted for him stinks to high heaven.  That is purely observational, not hard data...lol.

I will also say that it was about 98% people in masks in Walmart yesterday afternoon despite the the OUTRAGE on Facebook about having to wear one.  The people who were not ran the spectrum from young to old, well dressed to shabby, male and female.