Agreed - I think one of the things most depressing about the misinformation narrative from the current govt and the far right narrative is that they are hurting their own voting base the most. In that rural counties that should have the lowest rates of transmission and mortality because of the amount of space are actually getting some of the worst outcomes per capita.

All of it much more manageable and probably many fewer businesses would have had to have been closed, jobs lost, people dying if we just adopted some straightforward measures at the beginning. Super depressing.