{"id":75206,"date":"2020-09-04T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75206"},"modified":"2020-09-07T16:07:23","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T21:07:23","slug":"blue-fragility-be-it-resolved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75206","title":{"rendered":"Blue Fragility: Be It Resolved"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Whereas<\/strong> the United States’s death toll per million citizens<\/em><\/a> <\/em>ranks as the eighth-highest among significant <\/em>nations (forget about Andorra and San Marino), at 572 Covid fatalities per million…:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All graphs taken from Worldometers, September 2, 2020. Make sure you sort by the Deaths per Million column, or you won’t be any smarter or better informed than a Strib reporter. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And whereas <\/strong>every state with a death toll (in fatalities per million) higher than<\/em> 572 per million (as of September 2, 2020) is a “blue”, Democrat-run state with the sole exception of Mississippi:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And whereas <\/strong>within even those states, the overwhelming concentration of the death toll in terms of fatalities per million is in those states’ “blue”, Democrat-run urban areas (Example: New York<\/a>):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(Example. California<\/a>):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And whereas <\/strong>the states about which the American left has been caterwaulilng about – Florida and Texas – have per-million fatality rates below <\/em>the de factor national average of 572 per million<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(and whereas <\/strong>even in those examples, the fatalilties are overwhelmingly concentrated in Democrat-run areas within those Republican-run states (Texas<\/a> shown below), <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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and<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notwithstanding<\/strong> the fact that after months of insisting that “Red” states were going to get completely bludgeoned by the virus, any day now<\/a>, every single state (with the exception of sparsely populated Vermont and Maine and isolated Hawaii) in the bottom <\/em>15 states in terms of fatalities per million<\/em> is a Republican-run state, even<\/a> after the resurgence of infections in July, and <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wheras <\/strong>the deaths among the most vulnerable, the elderly, are overwhelmingly concentrated in “Blue”, Democrat-run states from New York to Minnesota<\/a>, as a result of policies that were systematically abjiured in “Red” States<\/a>, and<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whereas<\/strong> terms like ‘Wuhan Flu” and “China Vinus” are, we are told, inaccurate not to mention racist, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Be it resolved <\/strong>that from now on, the Covid-19 virus shall be known as “The Blue City Democrat Plague<\/strong>“. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whereas the United States’s death toll per million citizens ranks as the eighth-highest among significant nations (forget about Andorra and San Marino), at 572 Covid fatalities per million…: And whereas every state with a death toll (in fatalities per million) higher than 572 per million (as of September 2, 2020) is a “blue”, Democrat-run state […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,416],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue-fragility","category-covid19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75262,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75206\/revisions\/75262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}