I'm sure they were terrible. Probably best to either let them go at it in that one thread or push the talk to political board. This whole thing is politics now so it's going to be fiery and highly divisive. "When you combine sports and politics you get politics, when you combine science and politics you get politics."

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Posted by TideWarrior

Asheville/Chapel Hill NC

Member since Sep 2009

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Posted on 5/15/20 at 8:50 pm to BlackPawnMartyr

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The coronavirus pandemic is spreading out from urban centers and increasingly infecting residents in small rural counties, even as some of those areas begin to loosen lockdown requirements aimed at stopping its spread.

A new analysis shows nearly three-quarters of Americans live in counties where the virus is now spreading widely. Another 200 counties have seen significant growth in infection trends in the last week, making them high-prevalence counties — areas where the virus has infected at least one in a thousand people.

Like ripples in a pond, the virus is radiating out from its epicenters in large cities.

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“Most of these counties are small rural counties,” said William Frey, the Brookings Institution demographer who conducted the analysis. “Very very few are what you would call inner city counties or inner suburb counties.”

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Posted by The Spleen

Member since Dec 2010

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Posted on 5/16/20 at 8:31 am to BlackPawnMartyr

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I'm sure they were terrible.

They weren't, unless it turned ugly late yesterday afternoon. But I get people not wanting that in the thread, so my apologies for my contributions to that.

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