Murph and MD live in two of the most politically liberal/COVID restrictive areas in the entire country.
Both of them blame red states (and rednecks) for perpetuating the pandemic by not wearing masks and socially distancing.
Both of them believe the flu is basically non-existent because everyone is wearing masks and socially distancing.
Large swaths of the country continue to live as if COVID never happened.
It doesn’t add up.
San Diego is not in a red state nor are there a lot of rednecks there. But they have chafed at the restrictions.
San Diego is at 7700 cases per 100k, San Francisco is at 3800. Despite the arguments parroted by science deniers that the issue is population density, SF is the densest city West of the Mississippi but has had substantially better results than pretty much everywhere. Because liberal or not, the people of SF buckled down and did the work to address a difficult problem.
It will be interesting to draw correlations between level of official restriction and case rates, but restrictions only matter if they are followed, either because the population just follows them, or via enforcement. SF actually spent very little effort on enforcement. Businesses that were supposed to be closed, closed. Businesses supposed to operate at a certain level of capacity, did so. Customers and persons supposed to mask up and distance, did so.
Success is about decision making.
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