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I think the post is on the right track, but fails to even mention the urban/rural divide in the US, which is heavily weighted liberal/conservative.

The two groups are experiencing differently—to rural folks describing it as a non-problem is largely accurate, to inner-city liberals the catastrophe is accurate as well.

Combine that with a distrust of government in rural areas and you have a pretty solid case. It's clear that attempts at "one size fits all" policy making across a country the size of the US is problematic. States the size of California are also approaching the limits of governability in this situation, see the unrest between different counties.

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What are you talking about? It explicitly calls that out as 1 of 2 theories

" After all, the pandemic has thus far tended to hit more liberal regions, like New York, harder than more conservative regions. It is therefore possible that conservative and liberal differences are driven by a divergence in actual experiences with COVID-19"

That snippet doesn’t address density as the driving factor, as if the distribution were happenstance.

> I think the post is on the right track, but fails to even mention the urban/rural divide in the US, which is heavily weighted liberal/conservative.

There is a similar trend in Canada, Australia, and to some degree the UK.

> The two groups are experiencing differently—to rural folks describing it as a hoax is largely accurate, to inner-city liberals a catastrophe is accurate as well.

That is not what word hoax means. Hoax means that the thing does not exists at all and is made up. It does not mean "I personally dont have the very same problem yet, therefore I dont believe you when you tell me it is happening".

I wasn't done, please don't jump to reply in the first few minutes of writing. ;-)

It depends on what you define as _The hoax_, and there is a great diversity of opinions.

It can mean the virus doesn't exist

It can mean the virus isn't as bad as claimed

It can mean the virus mitigations aren't worth the tradeoff

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