Arizona now has *twelve times* the corona rate as New York. Twelve. Times. https://t.co/PgSKuBkmuP— Noah Shachtman (@NoahShachtman) June 23, 2020
These are very interesting charts (at the link, that is). Adjusted for population, Arkansas has seen a greater increase in cases than Texas; and Texas is far behind Arizona, Florida, and South Carolina. The rate in Arkansas is especially bad when you consider the state has only two large cities (Little Rock and Fayetteville). The state population is 3 million, which is smaller than the population of the Houston area alone. I've driven across it; it's a very big empty from Texarkana to Little Rock, and another big empty for a long time on the other side and past Arkansas.
But in terms of raw numbers, Texas is running away with it: 3,982 more cases than last week. Florida is close, but we're No. 1!
Thanks, Gov. Abbott.
Arkansas has 452 new cases. Houston has more than that, alone. But what this says is that things are going to get worse before they get better, and nothing's being done about it. Testing is not up, not in Texas. One testing center in Houston had reached capacity by noon, per local news. The others are clustered inside the loop, which is kinda sorta "downtown" in Houston. There's a whole lotta people who don't live inside the loop in Houston. I don't know, off the top of my head, where to go to get tested, in my neighborhood/immediate area. We don't have the personnel, materiel, or infrastructure for this, and we're not going to have before, if Dr. Fauci is right, we have a vaccine. Government here is failing in its most basic function. Government everywhere is. No wonder people are in the streets and attacking statues. They can't get at people, might as well get at images of people.
Voter turnout in the Kentucky primaries has been huge, by all reports. I've already filled out the first mail-in ballot of my life, for a primary runoff. Looking forward to the next one, in October (voting starts early. All that talk of the race "tightening" still doesn't take that into account. I think a majority of voters are just waiting to vote, not to decide.) I think an electoral tsunami is coming in November that won't crest until election day. I think voters want to flush out the Aegean stables of government, hopefully from the dog catcher to the President. 'bout damned time we did. Most of the incumbents seem to have missed the point that this government is of the people, by the people, for the people.
Maybe a reckoning is coming.
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