I used to figure that people would open their eyes over time but across the world that isn’t the case. Here in the U.S. the media keeps being overly hysterical about positive cases. I used to joke that there should be a ban on reporting cases.
Imagine if the flu was reported like this. Also the way they have never just said that certain people are at a higher risk than others and of course the “it’s ok to protest” narrative.
Just makes me sick to see people who are chicken little or someone who tells me that people have died
This is true.
I live in a rural backwater of a blue state. County would be hard red if not for college student voting skewing it towards purple (the population is just that low.) The state's urban centers have complete electoral dominance over the rest of the state-- the only reason the state is governable at all is because the urban voting blocs ecede any accountability ("Vote blue no matter who"), so the state government is run somewhere between a corrupt banana republic junta and a late soviet union puppet state. Every problem's become a nail for the hammer of "more government" to hit.
I've often wondered just when my state passed that point where increasing taxes causes revenue decline due to lower overall economic activity. I feel like it was late 80s, early 90s. It would be an interesting data science sort of experiment, but nobody who matters would want to see the results...
As a resident of Illinois, I feel your pain. Chicago is such a juggernaut that it doesn't matter that 90% of the rest of the state is solid red - as goes Chicago, so goes the state. People are leaving in droves, and the powers that be are so corrupt that their solution is to just keep raising taxes so they can get theirs and then get out before the ship sinks.