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RED states : RED covid alert : death from last year’s decisions at the ballot box...

Rimming the southern edge of America is a band of counties where covid is bad, really bad, right now.

They are that long band of red in this county-by-county analysis done by Harvard Medical and revealed by NPR.

There is one big noticeable gap in that unbroken rim : the state of New Mexico.

The government and the political culture there is noticeably different than the rest of the South East/South/South West.

They took Covid seriously, imposed early and earnest safety measures and have maintained them.

So a purely physical reason why Covid is spreading so rapidly along the southern rim simply won’t wash.

You’ve heard it from endless GOP spokesmen, and I do mean “men” (sea of middled aged white men with well fed faces).

Yada, Yada : its all down to a vast network of roads with traditionally enormous inter-state travel horizontally across the South, rather than vertically north-south, that solely responsible for spreading Covid in the South and only the South.

Covid has largely been stopped in New Mexico : not by purely medical means but with real political backbone backing up those medical measures.

How Americans voted - or didn’t or couldn’t vote - in the South in the last few years is today deciding whether or not they are likely to get Covid.

Covid is as much caused by politics as it will be cured by politics.

The medical solutions are universal : their rigorous local application is local - as, unfortunately, is the politics...