Your Cheatin Heart - part the fourteenth

June 15, 2021 


                           New York Times 

                        by A. Corres Pondent 


     RED STATES WITH SPARSE VACCINATIONS EXPLODE WITH COVID 

To the surprise of No One, the Red States, which have been lax in getting their populations vaccinated, are experiencing a resurgence in Covid. The curve started back up on May 14, the day after the CDC and President Biden announced that the fully vaccinated are free to go about their lives without a mask in all venues, not just outdoors.

To the surprise of No One, all those Red State Yahoos immediately dis-masked, even though the majority eligible for vaccines have refused to be vaccinated. If the rest of the country is fortunate, the Yahoos will infect themselves to death.

Let's look at the bottom 5, as of today, compared to where they were on 14 May (the list of bottom 5 hasn't changed from the last Cheatin Heart episode)

             cases    per 100K
Louisiana      5,388     52 
 
Wyoming          124     15 
 
Arkansas       2,015     60 

Mississippi    1,317     31 

Alabama        1,888     30 
 

[14 May]

             cases    per 100K
Louisiana      421    10 
 
Wyoming        110    18 
 
Arkansas       383     8 [entered 24 June] 

Mississippi    201     8 

Alabama        285     6 
 

The Alabama 14 May data hasn't been cleaned up, so this is still the 7-day average cases.

What's not been widely reported, at least in my sources, is that both hospitalizations and deaths have already started up the shaft of the hockey stick (Alabama deaths, for some reason, is flat). The worst is yet to come.