Maybe you haven’t been watching the news recently, the states I mentioned are in the top 5 for rapidly increasing number of cases and hospitalizations, and each has a Republican governor who favored early reopening and fewer restrictions. My point wasn’t that the virus is more prevalent in a Republican led or democratic led state, it was that the party doesn’t matter, EXCEPT where the state’s policy on prevention and mitigation is concerned. We have a rapidly increasing rate here in NC. We have a Democratic governor who has fought to keep reopening on a moderate pace and a Republican legislature that wants everything opened ASAP. I’d note that some governors who initially pushed for early reopening of everything are now publicly admitting that they’d make a different choice if the had it to do over. The facts are those areas with high population density, states or cities, are naturally going to have a higher rate of transmission, but local policies do have an effect.

Now on a National level, it’s a different story. Sadly, we have done a lousy job as a country in containing this compared to others like Canada or South Korea - pretty hard to deny those statistics. And it’s also pretty difficult to deny that we were slow to act, while POTUS was stating that the virus “would just go away like magic”. And even now, rather than modeling the leadership that the medical community advises, our president still doesn’t wear a mask and insists on rallies and a packed convention in closed spaces with no masks. Because of that, and NC’s insistence on distancing and masks, the Republican Party moved the convention to FLA (thank GOD), who, now in the midst of a huge increase, likely due to early reopening, is actually going to require masks at the convention.

The point is that this shouldn’t be politicized in any way - pro Democrat OR Republican (there’s plenty of blame and pain to go around to everyone) - it’s a MEDICAL issue, and my response to you was to point that out after you tried to make it one.

I figured when you started this stupid rant it it would come back to the election. It’s all about Biden winning and nothing else. You and your ilk certainly act sanctimoniously to everyone who don’t agree with you. You’re all like little lambs who need the government to care for them from the cradle to the grave, because you can’t take of yourself on your own. So you cower in fear, while others have the fortitude to live life to the fullest. And yet you silly cowards always spew the exact same things, such as no one just gets over COVID 19. And, if one does catch it, there is a 100% certainty that you will die on a ventilator. The last I read from the CDC, the survival rate was 98.7%. But you’re the expert medical doctor on here, and it sounds like you opine that 98% of the U.S. will get it if you don’t wear a mask. That’s ludicrous, and yet you believe it with your whole being.