Illinois COVID-19 death rate in rural counties is now twice as high as metro areas.

[beachbumbob]

Downstate Illi-Bamians killing off many people needlessly


https://capitolfax.com/2020/11/18/illinois-covid-19-death-rate-in-rural-counties-is-now-twice-as-high-as-metro-areas/

[SWBTATTReg]

1. I have quite a few friends that live in rural Illinois. They've told me of the vast majority of

folks who are ignoring mask rules, ignoring social distancing rules, etc. Also, the same thing is happening in rural Missouri (the ignoring of rules/safeguards)...thus, it's probably this way across the entire rural spectrum of America.

And, no one else is forcing them at gunpoint to obey the simplest of safeguards against the CV, just common sense.

Now of course a lot of businesses are requiring masks if you wish to shop in their store, a right of any private business and/or home to demand on their own property, otherwise you don't get in.

But still, some are still complaining about masks mandates, etc.

At what point do these people start being called serial murderers? At what point do these people start getting arrested and confined to their homes if they won't obey a simple request to 'mask up' or socially distance themselves? Republican governors and/or others around them are so scared, so cowardly to do the right thing now-a-days.

And we want them to be our leaders, our representatives?

[murielm99]

3. I live in rural Illinois.

I cannot tell you how many people are refusing to mask up because I try to stay home most of the time. I do see them when I go out, and I have confronted a few. It does no good.

These are the people who are calling our governor an authoritarian and displaying yard signs that say, "Pritzker Sucks." Some of them have brought lawsuits against our governor.

I have a yard sign that says, "Thank you, Governor Pritzker."

[SWBTATTReg]

4. Good for you. A couple of my best friends live near Sparta/Redbud, IL, and they are constantly

telling me of those w/o masks, etc. and my sister near Neosho, MO, near the border of MO/AR does too. And the CV outbreaks keep marching on. Slowly but surely. I guess that they won't change their minds until everyone of them gets the CV, eh?

It is a good thing that you tell them a piece of your mind, I just hope that none of them will lash out at you. Best wishes, be safe, and be careful!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. And to think that Republicans claim to be the

party of personal responsibility.

[Midnight Writer]

5. Around here, despite the mounting death toll, folks say this Covid is a "city problem" and overblown

I will say, with the sudden explosion of deaths, mask wearers at the local grocery went from less than 50% two weeks ago to maybe 90% today.

Guy across the street is a super Christian who hosts events at his house a couple or three times a week. We get 20 or more cars parked all along here and not a single person wearing a mask. I think this is a one house super spreader.

[AwakeAtLast]

6. And cursing Pritzker all the way!

I know, I live here.

I'm still teaching in person!