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for all the "ha ha the South lol" that& #39;s sprung up evergreen in response to that traveling two miles nonsense, a brief thread of confession:
I am one of the red spots on that map.
I am one of the red spots on that map.
I have been working remotely and sheltering in place and only leaving the house to donate blood or perform essential services...
...I& #39;m a domestic and sexual violence attorney whose territory is most of middle TN, and the courts are open to file and hear orders of protection.
...I& #39;m a domestic and sexual violence attorney whose territory is most of middle TN, and the courts are open to file and hear orders of protection.
So I have been multiple places, because I had to be, while doing absolutely everything possible to do business remotely.
I live in a suburban area, but it& #39;s more than two miles for me to drive to the blood donation center every other Friday to give platelets.
I live in a suburban area, but it& #39;s more than two miles for me to drive to the blood donation center every other Friday to give platelets.
And I know a lot of the other red spots on that map, because I& #39;ve lived or worked there.
Town is ten, fifteen miles away at best. Even in town, it& #39;s spread out to where it might be two miles to the store from your house.
Town is ten, fifteen miles away at best. Even in town, it& #39;s spread out to where it might be two miles to the store from your house.
And when I was in rural NE Tennessee I had a thirteen county coverage area for the services I provide, which even our otherwise closed courts consider emergency matters. One lawyer. Thirteen counties.
It& #39;s really easy to look and go "those people are ignorant and reckless" when you don& #39;t know the lay of the land, when the place you& #39;re sneering at might as well be Xanadu for all that you& #39;ve been there. Don& #39;t do that. It& #39;s shitty and small and says more about you than them.
It& #39;s also an arbitrary metric. If you& #39;re driving, you& #39;re no more or less likely to spread the virus at your one stop if it& #39;s five miles as opposed to two, all other factors being equal. more than two doesn& #39;t mean pleasure trip.
Some of Tennessee& #39;s rural counties lack a hospital or an ER because the governor didn& #39;t expand Medicaid. Are they supposed to die quietly at home so you don& #39;t point and laugh at the rednecks (who you don& #39;t care are poor people, POC, the highest percentage of LGBTQ folks?)
this study is garbage, it doesn& #39;t take any factors including food deserts into account, it& #39;s there to confirm prejudices and not much else.
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