Right now, Covid-19 is raging through urban areas like NYC and New Orleans. Soon, it will start to spread through rural America. At the beginning of the month, my son and I were in rural Georgia, while my wife and other son were travelling. It has been 13 days since they flew across country, so we feel pretty good about where we are. We are in suburban Connecticut, on the periphery of the NYC outbreak. We have 30 cases in the nearby city of Waterbury, but only 1 recorded case in Watertown. The further away from NYC and the Gold Coast you get, the better.
But if we do get sick, we are close to two hospitals in Waterbury.
When we were trying to figure out where to ride out this pandemic, we were trying to decide between the family farm in rural Georgia or home in Connecticut. In the end, we settled on Connecticut because it's likely to be a better place to get sick in, whereas Georgia would be a better place to be healthy in.
I'm honestly not terribly worried about getting Covid-19. We are being careful. What worries me now is some sort of injury that would normally require the Emergency Room. Right now, I think we'd be OK, but what about a week or two from now?
Rural America is going to get slammed by this in the next 6 weeks. Right now, this tool makes it look like things will get nastiest here around May 14th. That's in line with more rural states, but we have better health infrastructure in Connecticut.
It's going to cut through rural America - older, sicker and poorer in general than urban America - at some point.
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