LogFAQs > #939161679

red states are largely rural and more spread apart from each other and testing is not anywhere near as intense in most of them. naturally its going to take longer for stuff to spread across somewhere like south carolina than it is new york, so the delay in shutting stuff down to flatten the curve wasn't as harmful as it was for majorly populated cities.

the problem is when they reopen, they're absolutely going to crawl up to the point of getting much more widespread outbreaks eventually. everyone acknowledges this, even the government is expecting it and deciding it's a worthwhile sacrifice. so going "maybe those states just magically wont get the virus once mass groupings resume and large scale interstate travel is more common" is more than a little misguided

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