Looks like they were right.....sort of.

"The south will rise again !"

The following recent map (as of yesterday) shows a big rise in Covid-19 cases for all southern states, except New Mexico. Tap the 4 week change title.
Rushing to re-open = not a good idea.

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@ Jim:

Trump has moved on with his life and think he can just wish the pandemic away.
Citizen are getting mix messages from the scientist and Trump.
Some people are tired of being quarantined and just want to get out and party.

I say open the USA and let the chips fall where they may.

Sweden did that and their death rate is very high.
Maybe that is the way to decrease the population and save the earth. idk.
Obeying 'Population Zero' (no couple have more than 2 children) is the proper way to stabilize the population. I don't wish death upon anyone alive. Unfortunately, it will eventually happen anyway.
A lot could also be attributed to those not following the guidelines - social distancing, masks etc.
I found your statement:
Obeying 'Population Zero' (no couple have more than 2 children) is the proper way to stabilize the population.

a lot more interesting.
That's definitely a big part of it. But, not being isolated with family at home enables more of that,
since you may follow proper procedures, but others will not.
However, IF they would social distance & wear masks, that would certainly help.
Part of the problem is Trump's lack of leadership, not wearing a mask, and constant urgings,
that it is safe and to open up quickly.
kpthatsme - ZPG - zero population growth - was a frequent topic of discussion back among the 60s US environmental movement. The idea died more or less died until Nov 2013 when China implemented the One Child Policy. Four years later China gave up the program on realizing families were forcible choosing sons over daughters. They stopped the program as it was clear to all the shortage of future brides was a greater threat than increasing population numbers.

The idea that Covid will slow down world wide growth rate is equally flawed. Covid kills off the the wrong age group to achieve that end.
Thanks OG - I do remember that being a controversy back in the day.
OF course the flag is a symbol and Covid is real. Strange though how the symbol carries more weight than the disease.
OG - With all due respect, that is different than what I described.
Putin would love to divide the country again. Trump is his tool to try to do so.
He's certainly trying his 'best'.
c-r - What you fail to understand, is that infections happen first, then hospitalizations rise and then lastly deaths rise. We've just recently seen a surge in infections in the southern states. While I hope hospitalizations and especially deaths don't follow suit, I will not be surprised, when they do.

The nationwide deaths dropping, is due mostly to NY & NJ cases dropping to a small level.
@oldeguy The One Child policy actually started in 1980, and was replaced by a two-child policy in 2016., so I cannot guess where you got 2013 from It was responsible for creating a huge gender imbalance in the young population, wealth in the following generation, and lack of carers in an aging population. The so-called 'left-over women' phenomenon in China is consequently a nonsense since there is an excess of 45m marriageable males, and graduate females far outnumber the males, so like it or not, they'll have to marry better educated and better qualified women.
History, politics and science know little, pensioned US HS teacher, being corrected by a non-certified, bottom of the academic pecking order, wannabe educator. Almost too delicious. But characteristic of both.
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