Sunday, September 6, 2020

Seven in 10 new coronavirus cases are emerging in red states - The Washington Post

It’s hard to overstate the extent to which the coronavirus pandemic has been saturated with partisan politics. Simple recommendations like wearing a face mask have been recast as acts of devout patriotism or as mandates for fealty to an insidious federal government. It’s a direct and indirect function of the president: Everything President Trump touches becomes partisan, both intentionally and not, and Trump’s got his hands all over the pandemic. We are therefore no longer surprised when we see data like this, from a new poll conducted by CNN: Eighty-seven percent of those who plan to vote for former vice president Joe Biden are very or somewhat concerned about the pandemic. Seventy-one percent of Trump voters aren’t. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/09/03/seven-in-10-new-coronavirus-cases-are-emerging-red-states/

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