I really gotta know what their metric for determining what a rural county is because they included Newberry County on here but not Union, Fairfield, or Chester, all of which are DEFINITELY more rural than Newberry https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1247954901734510593

no like I'm legit confused @nytimes please explain your logic for South Carolina, why is Newberry (pop. 38,000) on here but Union (pop. 27,000), Fairfield (pop. 22,000), and Chester (pop. 32,000) are not

this is going to bother me all day what the fuck

I even checked population density to see if that was the metric they used and no, it was not

wait are you fucking kidding me tHIS IS A TERRIBLE WAY TO CLASSIFY RURAL COUNTIES LMAO

djdjdhddb okay so they're saying Union and Chester counties are urban because they're too close to Charlotte

and Fairfield doesn't count because they're too close to Columbia, but Newberry, which also shares a border with Lexington County and has 16,000 more people, does count

this is causing my brain to rot

Chester County's sole hospital just declared that they are no longer accepting inpatients and have essentially shut down in the middle of this pandemic, btw. In case you were wondering.

I just lost my shit over this thread on discord. my eye is twitching. the NYT is going to give me a stroke