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Buckeye_Democrat

(15,065 posts) Wed Dec 16, 2020, 02:36 AM Dec 2020

Deadliest (Covid) place in America: Gove County, KS

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/12/12/coronavirus-deaths-highest-us-rural-republican-leaning-county/3828902001/

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... As of Thursday, coronavirus has killed a higher percentage of Gove County residents than any other county in the United States: One out of every 132 people has died.

Their intertwined stories illuminate the toll the pandemic has taken on communities across the country as emotional debates over how to control the infection have unfolded amid mounting losses.

Even today, mask-wearing remains controversial in Gove County, and friendships are being strained as authorities struggle to persuade their neighbors to follow basic public health guidelines, such as avoiding large gatherings

President Donald Trump won the county with 88% of the vote in November, and many of the residents, including the farmers who raise up corn and sorghum, are deeply skeptical of government and public health orders, often echoing the language Trump has used about mask-wearing and the pandemic's severity.
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Deadliest (Covid) place in America: Gove County, KS (Original Post) Buckeye_Democrat Dec 2020 OP

Well, it's hard to expect intelligence when people act stupidly PJMcK Dec 2020 #1

PJMcK

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1. Well, it's hard to expect intelligence when people act stupidly

Reply to Buckeye_Democrat (Original post)

Wed Dec 16, 2020, 07:08 AM

Dec 2020

A dark part of my soul, which I've only discovered during the Trump years, doesn't care if the people of Gove County die. They have the same ability to understand science as the rest of us. If they ignore it, the results are their responsibility.

In fact, I don't care if these Kansasans (?) "are deeply skeptical of government and public health orders..." The coronavirus doesn't care, either. If these folks get ill, they can deny the virus until their dying breath.

I can't care about stupid people who ignore science and vote for Trump. They deserve their fates.

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