Cities skew democrat, particularly inner-cities. Those built-up areas are also more vulnerable to the spread of disease.

That's unclear, actually. The biggest single US cluster so far is in a retirement community in suburban Seattle. No one is safe here, novel viruses like this simply transmit too easily.

> Where democrats have been cancelling travel and buying toilet paper, republicans didn't even believe the crisis was real until the market crashed.

Don’t spread partisan bullshit.

There's literally a poll elsewhere in this thread showing exactly this kind of effect.

I mean, fine, it's a partisan point. But... I mean, seriously: at what point does it become OK to point out that Fox News and the Republican leadership[1] just plain fucked up the response to COVID-19 really badly? And that they seemingly did so out of a combination of both ignorance and partisan desire to minimize the problem?

Is that not OK? Because it's a real point, and one that needs to be made (and heard by republican voters), even if it's "partisan".

[1] And specifically Fox News and the Republican leaders, and not the "MSM" or Democratic leadership, who were saying opposite things and in hindsight were clearly correct.