The highest death rates are in NY and NJ because these states are the main global gateway into the US from the rest of the world. People don't fly from overseas into red states - there's nothing there for them.
NY and NJ were hit the hardest early on because Trump had withheld information about COVID. NY and NJ are also home to the most densely populated areas of the nation which contriubted to spread earlier on. NY and NJ had to do everything themselves, going by the science and data and even coming up with their own science and data because the Federal government did nothing to guide the nation. NY and NJ actually guided the rest of the nation; some blue states followed that guidance and things got better, the red states ignored that guidance and they are doing much, much worse now.
It's like anything else in this nation - the blue states lead and give while the red states follow and take, take, take. The blue states produce in abundance and the red states take and take and take whatever they can get their hands on which they are unable or unwilling to produce.
Now we see it with COVID - the blue states got hit the hardest and straightened things out within 2 to 3 months while the red states were not hit with anything for a couple months and then ignored all the lessons that the blue states had to learn the hard way so now those red states are going down the toilet.
As always, blue states produce progress and the red states regress and drag everything back down.
NY and NJ were hit the hardest early on because Trump had withheld information about COVID. NY and NJ are also home to the most densely populated areas of the nation which contriubted to spread earlier on. NY and NJ had to do everything themselves, going by the science and data and even coming up with their own science and data because the Federal government did nothing to guide the nation. NY and NJ actually guided the rest of the nation; some blue states followed that guidance and things got better, the red states ignored that guidance and they are doing much, much worse now.
It's like anything else in this nation - the blue states lead and give while the red states follow and take, take, take. The blue states produce in abundance and the red states take and take and take whatever they can get their hands on which they are unable or unwilling to produce.
Now we see it with COVID - the blue states got hit the hardest and straightened things out within 2 to 3 months while the red states were not hit with anything for a couple months and then ignored all the lessons that the blue states had to learn the hard way so now those red states are going down the toilet.
As always, blue states produce progress and the red states regress and drag everything back down.[/QUOTE]
Your reply is a bogus narrative, from start to finish.
No one takes from the blue states, though you could claim that the mass exodus of people from high taxes in blue states, to be the taking of those people by the red states.
What do blue states give that red states take?
Blue states are notoriously inefficient and incompetent, and are always begging for federal money.
And claiming Trump withheld information from blue states is ludicrous. Every single day he held a news conference where Drs. Fauci, Brix, and the surgeon general spoke and gave the latest updates and recommendations.
And if he had withheld information, red states would be in the dark equally with blue states.
You can’t spin it.
The virus spread so fast because, per the NY Times, as late as March 5, Cuomo and DeBlasiio told New Yorkers via the media, to continue living their lives normally, while calling Trumps shutdown of flights from China an overreaction and bigoted.
NY Times article:
A 39-year-old woman took Flight 701 from Doha, Qatar, to John F. Kennedy International Airport in late February, the final leg of her trip home to New York City from Iran.
A week later, on March 1, she tested positive for the
coronavirus, the first confirmed case in New York City of an outbreak that had already devastated China and parts of Europe.
The next day,
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, appearing with Mayor Bill de Blasio at a news conference, promised that health investigators would track down every person on the woman’s flight. But no one did.
A day later,
a lawyer from New Rochelle, a New York City suburb, tested positive for the virus — an alarming sign because he had not traveled to any affected country, suggesting community spread was already taking place.
Although city investigators had traced the lawyer’s whereabouts and connections to the most crowded corridors of Manhattan, the state’s efforts focused on the suburb, not the city, and Mr. de Blasio urged the public not to worry. “We’ll tell you the second we think you should change your behavior,”
the mayor said on March 5.
For many days after the first positive test, as the coronavirus silently spread throughout the New York region,
Mr. Cuomo, Mr. de Blasio and their top aides projected an unswerving confidence that the outbreak would be readily contained.
There would be cases, they repeatedly said, but New York’s hospitals were some of the best in the world. Plans were in place.
Responseshad been rehearsed during “tabletop” exercises. After all, the city had been here before — Ebola, Zika, the H1N1 virus, etc,
Excuse our arrogance as New Yorkers — I speak for the mayor also on this one — we think we have the best health care system on the planet right here in New York,”
Mr. Cuomo said on March 2. “So, when you’re saying, what happened in other countries versus what happened here, we don’t even think it’s going to be as bad as it was in other countries.”
But now, New York City and the surrounding suburbs have become the epicenter of the pandemic in the United States, with far more cases than many countries have.
More than 138,000 people in the state have tested positive for the virus, with nearly all of them in the city and nearby suburbs.
The initial efforts by New York officials to stem the outbreak were hampered by their own confused guidance, unheeded warnings, delayed decisions and political infighting, The New York Times found.
End quote.
So much for your spin.