Let’s take a look at COVID-19 growth in the United States over the last seven days. In this map, dark red indicates a high percentage of growth (as much as 5.8% per day); light blue indicates a low amount of growth.
In this map, Florida leads with a 5.8% daily growth of COVID-19 cases over the last week. On the heels of Florida, we have Arizona (4.7%), Idaho (4.6%), South Carolina (4.6%), Montana (4.4%), Nevada (4.2%), and Texas (4.2%).
Now, since this is DailyKos, this is where I bring up politics: How the frack did wearing a mask in public become a partisan political issue, instead of a simple public health issue? Who was the fool who decided that being asked to wear a mask or social distance in public was some horrible infringement of personal liberty being brought on by the “liberal deep state” instead of being simple common sense? Why did enough people listen to those fools to the point that politically conservative states are now seeing unprecedented levels of COVID-19 growth?
I don’t know. I do know this: Facts are facts, and no amount of complaining about “fake news” changes the fact that we are now seeing a huge uptick in COVID-19 again, after having it almost under control half a month ago.
Data comes from the New York Times over at https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data The SVG map template is public domain, obtained from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ElectoralCollege2020.svg The code to take the New York Times data and convert it in to a visual map is open source, available at https://github.com/samboy/covid-19-html