Surging virus cases get a shrug in many Midwestern towns

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Surging virus cases get a shrug in many Midwestern towns

By GRANT SCHULTE
November 14, 2020

ELMWOOD, Neb. (AP) — Danny Rice has a good sense of how dangerous the coronavirus can be.

What puzzles him are the people who have curtailed so much of their lives to avoid being infected by the virus.

“I’m not going out and looking to catch it,” he said, sitting at a cluttered desk in his auto repair shop in the tiny eastern Nebraska community of Elmwood. “I don’t want to catch it. But if I get it, I get it. That’s just how I feel.”

Plenty of people agree with Rice, and health experts acknowledge those views are powering soaring COVID-19 infection rates, especially in parts of the rural Midwest where the disease is spreading unabated and threatening to overwhelm hospitals.

It’s not that people in Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Iowa and elsewhere don’t realize their states are leading the nation in new cases per capita. It’s that many of them aren’t especially concerned.

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[Newest Reality]

1. And if and when they get it...

Like so many others, they will have some famous last words.

The reality doesn't really hit some people until it's far too late.

[Warpy]

4. They think it's a binary, live or die thing, and that doesn't scare them.

What they don't realize is that a lot of people are surviving the virus, but getting maimed in the process, their bains, hearts and kidneys severely compromised by showers of blood clots, and that this might not show up until after they have seemingly recovered.

The only thing that would make these guys take this more seriously is if it made their dicks fall off. That's the one thing it doesn't seem to do.

[Phoenix61]

2. Darwin Awards for a lot of folks.

Sadly, they will infect a lot of innocent people and break the medical care system where they live.

[empedocles]

3. traitortrump's alleged virus, and 'recovery', sent a message, that if a morbidly obese, unhealthy

every which way, 74 yr old, could be up and running - 'virus may not be that bad'

Might've been influential those trump messages.