Red state / Blue state - Wuhan coronavirus in the cities

An observation from Mitch Berg at Shot In The Dark:

Blue Fragility
Like all plagues, Covid19 is a problem everywhere, for everyone.

But like most plagues, you need hosts for a plague to spread – and cities are to viruses what a Super Walmart is to humans; vast collections of everything they need to survive.

Plagues don’t care about their victims’ politics – but cities are stuffed full of people for whom politics matters an awful lot. And so most cities are simultaneously a) blue, and b) suffering disproportionally from the Covid plague.

And it’s hard to escape the fact – as, indeed, not a few blue-city dwellers are realizing – that high density and a transit-centered lifestyle make cities susceptible to epidemics.

But you just can’t tell the “evidence based, science-centered” crowd the utterly obvious without expecting a political retort.

Mitch then cites some examples of how the blue people react to this disparity. Clown car. Mitch is the author of a number of laws. The seventh is a classic example:

Berg’s Seventh Law of Liberal Projection
When a Liberal issues a group defamation or assault on conservatives’ ethics, character, humanity or respect for liberty or the truth, they are at best projecting, and at worst drawing attention away from their own misdeeds.

This is the big kahuna of them all – the one that at face value explains all “progressive” behavior; not so much a strategy as a nationwide inability to engage dissent from their narrative with anything but projection and gaslighting.

Proven true so many times it is almost cliché.