Last update: Saturday 5/23/20
Last week a friend forwarded a Facebook message to me that asked, rhetorically, if it was really a "huge coincidence" that ten blue states with a total population around 104 million had ten times the number of COVID-19 deaths as ten red states with the same total population. When I realized that there was more than one way to interpret this question, it occurred to me that maybe it wasn't as rhetorical as I had first thought.