Flu surges in Louisiana as health department barred from promoting flu shots

"My red state is better than 90% of the world!"

--people that have never left their small town

90% ? Come on you can't be serious with that.

I think people tend to vastly underestimate the extreme poverty that is widespread in southern states especially. Very high homeless population with barely any services for them, people living in dilapidated buildings with slumlord landlords, no grocery stores, very high unemployment and wages well below the poverty level being the only jobs around. This is the case in parts of every inner city and many rural towns in the south.

How many countries have you visited?

Spoken like someone who's never traveled outside of their own small town

L.O.L.

You need to actually take a look at all the QOL statistics available out there. The US is better than, say, Mexico or most 3rd world countries but almost every other Western nation is kicking their ass when it comes to most living metrics.

In this summary it gives inordinate value to purchasing power without consideration for things like needing to pay for healthcare and even still gets ranked 12th overall, and that is almost certain to change if your felon leader starts implementing tariffs for everything.

Personally I was shocked to see Canada below the US because as a Canadian I can say without a doubt that every other Canadian I've ever met would absolutely prefer to live in Canada given the choice. Housing crisis be damned.

The irony of ya'll needing a 'come to jesus' moment to realize how much of a shithole the country has become is real.

aren't we like, close to bottom rung on major things like healthcare? and lower 50 on education?

Tell that to all the minorities that Trump has rounded up and deported without even the most basic attempts at due process.

How brain damaged are you? Have you been drinking raw milk again?

Yeah, because it feasts on the superprofits of the South through systematic underdevelopment and periodic warfare whenever they get to uppity with nationalization or promotion of domestic industry.

And is that a good standard, a bad standard, or neutral?

Like, no one in a great situation goes, "Well at least I'm not.." That's the type of thing one says when they are trying to cope with a poor situation.

And I'd also argue that the dead minorities would disagree with your assessment, give that they are.. dead.

At this point I wouldn't be surprised if Abbot was crop dusting the major metropolitans with the flu.

Not with that attitude.

Traditionally, you are correct. But nothing matters anymore, so

The doctrine of the right to travel actually encompasses three separate rights, of which two have been notable for the uncertainty of their textual support. The first is the right of a citizen to move freely between states, a right venerable for its longevity, but still lacking a clear doctrinal basis.

https://constitution.findlaw.com/amendment14/annotation11.html

+1...Indeed, the ensuing Green Apple Splatter will free the flu virus from your body.

Yes, we all do better when we all do better in the long run. But they want to do even more better for themselves now. Because they know how delayed the find out part of them fucking around can be. They'll likely be dead. And it might be their children's problem. But it certainly won't be theirs.

But that's even more confusing. What profit is to be made from a bunch of people getting the flu? It makes people miss work and it kills people. Who is pushing this? Big Nyquil?

Thank you! As a southerner who is very progressive, comments like this really piss me off.

You can't lower yourself to their level of ignorance, you makes you no better than the people you're deriding.

Yep, lots of the south will show similar demographics because of a high black population, unfortunately not enough of them vote.

Incubation times vary so I dunno