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<blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 883348"><p>It depends on what you mean by rural. Maybe out in the middle of Nebraska or the desert of West Texas or up in the UP, far from anywhere that's anywhere providing there's no meat packing plant or such in the vicinity. <strong>Or in the rural areas of states with strict regulations.</strong></p><p></p><p>Consider interior Florida and the panhandle, quite rural away from the few cities of any size once you get 15 miles in from the coast. This is a state with among the most lax Covid regulations in the country. They've accumulated positive tests as high as 6% of the population in out of the way counties. I believe there is only one county in all of Florida tracking below 2%.</p><p></p><p>Close to home for me, Erie County, NY, home to Buffalo, in a state with among the most strict regulations, is tracking at 1.3%. Monroe County, NY, home to Rochester with one of the highest poverty rates in the country, is tracking 0.8%. Some very rural upstate NY counties are tracking in the 0.2 - 0.3% range.</p><p></p><p>Compare to Suwanee County, FL in the north central region, 60-80 miles from Jacksonville on the east or Tallahassee to the west. If you lived there your shopping trip would be to the booming metropolis of Plant City, population 40,000, in the adjacent county. 6.2% of that population has been tested positive to date about triple that of New York, New York. In fact, largely rural north central Florida and southern Georgia (another state with lax restrictions) are tracking among the highest postive tests as a percent of population in the country.</p><p></p><p>So, to repeat, it depends on what you mean by rural. The percentage of the US population that could go about footloose and fancy free at low risk is very tiny. Population density and thereby the amount of human interactions would have to be quite low.</p><p></p><p>Generally speaking, the whole rural vs. city was an early assumption with nothing to support it. In some quarters it was politically of racially motivated, often a combo of the two. Now, with numbers, it is exposed as claptrap unless you are really out in the middle of nowhere.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HardRightEdge, post: 883348"] It depends on what you mean by rural. Maybe out in the middle of Nebraska or the desert of West Texas or up in the UP, far from anywhere that's anywhere providing there's no meat packing plant or such in the vicinity. [B]Or in the rural areas of states with strict regulations.[/B] Consider interior Florida and the panhandle, quite rural away from the few cities of any size once you get 15 miles in from the coast. This is a state with among the most lax Covid regulations in the country. They've accumulated positive tests as high as 6% of the population in out of the way counties. I believe there is only one county in all of Florida tracking below 2%. Close to home for me, Erie County, NY, home to Buffalo, in a state with among the most strict regulations, is tracking at 1.3%. Monroe County, NY, home to Rochester with one of the highest poverty rates in the country, is tracking 0.8%. Some very rural upstate NY counties are tracking in the 0.2 - 0.3% range. Compare to Suwanee County, FL in the north central region, 60-80 miles from Jacksonville on the east or Tallahassee to the west. If you lived there your shopping trip would be to the booming metropolis of Plant City, population 40,000, in the adjacent county. 6.2% of that population has been tested positive to date about triple that of New York, New York. In fact, largely rural north central Florida and southern Georgia (another state with lax restrictions) are tracking among the highest postive tests as a percent of population in the country. So, to repeat, it depends on what you mean by rural. The percentage of the US population that could go about footloose and fancy free at low risk is very tiny. Population density and thereby the amount of human interactions would have to be quite low. Generally speaking, the whole rural vs. city was an early assumption with nothing to support it. In some quarters it was politically of racially motivated, often a combo of the two. Now, with numbers, it is exposed as claptrap unless you are really out in the middle of nowhere. [/QUOTE]
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