US rural dwellers aren’t coronavirus-immune but are acting that way

Partisan messaging in the USA has led rural counties to see large outbreaks

One of the deeply unfortunate occurrences that has led the USA to be so impacted by the coronavirus is partisan messaging by Republican-aligned sources, from Donald Trump through Fox News. Rural areas are much more Republican than not, and show every evidence of thinking that the virus is only a problem for liberal urban dwellers. The result is an upswell in outbreaks in counties that had…