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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Trump says that if you take out "blue states" from the death statistics, they're much better."
Link to tweet
Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)Kind of a dumb comment.
IcyPeas
(21,966 posts)DonaldsRump
(7,715 posts)This is not incompetence. This is a deliberate political strategy at all levels. I think it's pretty clear that Fatso and Jared deliberately failed to address the pandemic so as to lay the blame on the Blue States.
Every single person associated with this criminal catastrophe should be in prison, starting with the Fat Infector-in-Chief and his "daughter" Ivanka's husband.
chriscan64
(1,789 posts)only if they would somehow come back to life.
Sogo
(5,031 posts)They don't count as the "real" America....
frazzled
(18,402 posts)In red, Southern states.
Alabama has the highest death rate at 918.1 per 100,000. Mississippi not far behind. West Virginia bad, ... heres the map and list of state rates
https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/death-rate-per-100000/?activeTab=map¤tTimeframe=0&selectedDistributions=death-rate-per-100000&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Location%22,%22sort%22:%22asc%22%7D
Mariana
(14,863 posts)Not the overall death rates of the states in 2018, which is what is at your link.
frazzled
(18,402 posts)Google misread my query, and I didnt check.
Heres a COVID rate chart. Yes, the NorthEastern states, because of their early exposure and dense populations, still lead cumulatively. But beyond that, there doesnt appear to be any blue state/red state division. My blue sets rate is below that of Louisiana and Mississippi, and California is way down there.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109011/coronavirus-covid19-death-rates-us-by-state/
rufus dog
(8,419 posts)Asswipe
Stallion
(6,476 posts)and those states are rapidly climbing the Deaths per Million
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Blue Owl
(50,666 posts)n/t
Solly Mack
(90,817 posts)Journeyman
(15,056 posts)Volaris
(10,284 posts)Sure, that's the ticket.
lame54
(35,395 posts)Claire Oh Nette
(2,636 posts)If you just don't count the dead, they're not dead?
There needs to be a test to qualify to run for president. Because of this right here.
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)We've already seen his moves to take out the blue states
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