1/ In response to a post where I said it was crazy for governors to lock down urban and rural areas to the same degree, a reader send me a chart from the New York Times (source below) that the counties with the largest per capita case load. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html?auth=login-google

2/ Look, they said, the top three worst infection counties per capita are all rural counties! Lock downs make just as much sense there

3/ It turns out the real explanation for these rural county infection rates is in the very same source. Below is a list of the top infection hotspots. Note three of them are prisons located in the very same three rural counties at the top of the county list.

4/ I continue my assertion that we should focus our attention on figuring out how to protect these vulnerable institutions, while letting the rest of us go about our business taking reasonable precautions