All these states have very low numbers.
Not public health problem numbers.
It is New York and eastern seaboard that has vastly higher numbers.
A more interesting disparity is between Michigan and Minnesota.
Both have a major population center, large international airports, foreign polulations and are about the same physical size.
Death rates are per 100 CASES, not per 100 population.
Wonder how this effects the Vitamin D hypothesis. None of those are what I’d call sunshine states.
It clearly had no positive impact.
The CDC used to deal with a pandemic(which means in the wild or uncontained.)
They learned from the 1918 Spanish flu that those that where immunized in the earlier waves was lived in the next wave.
Note if you're in an apartment or condo you're breathing other peoples air. Rather then getting out in the sun with heat and vitamin D. The house arrest is counterproductive
1918 Influenza: the Mother of All Pandemics (2006 perspective by the CDC)
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/1/pdfs/05-0979.pdf
Just remember we were told 3 million would die in the USA alone in the first year. Now we are lucky to see just 1/30th of these deaths. Consider in addition, 80,000 today is way too high when reports now say only 3 to 25 percent ( we may never know) of these actually died only from the virus alone and not with the virus and some other condition that would have killed them likely this year already such as nursing home people accounting for a majority of the 80,000 where an average stay in a nursing home before death is 5 months ... therefore , perhaps if the USA really has only 30,000 deaths or less, that's 100 times a factor or more of the 3 million we were told could die WITHOUT a lock-down..
Do we see more 100 times the deaths in places with no lock-downs.. no, even though a factor as large as 100 would be easily recognized with bad or little data !
98% of deaths in MN happened in Nursing Homes, and the like.
People up here are suckers: they voted for Ilhan Omer.
The media has scared them to death. They enjoy the “feel good” parades and chalk on the side walk.
One day I didn’t wear a mask to the grocery store and I got nasty looks. The next time, I wore an N95 with MAGA written on it. People avoided looking at me. Pathetic.
A little comparison I made. I changed population to population density.
Minnesota
Fatalities: 722
Population density: 70.5/sq mile
Death rate: 0.00013
Wisconsin
Fatalities: 453
Population density: 39.6/sq mile
Death rate: 0.00008
Iowa
Fatalities: 351
Population density: 54.5
Death rate: 0.00011
North Dakota
Fatalities: 43
Population density: 9.7/sq mile
Death rate: 0.00006
South Dakota
Fatalities: 44
Population density: 11.3/sq mile
Death rate: 0.00005
And I threw in Montana:
Fatalities: 19
Population density: 2.65/sq mile
Death rate: 0.000019
Here is that arrangement sorted by population density:
(sorted on death rate 1st and pop density 2nd)
State-———Pop Dens-—Deaths-—Death Rate
Minnesota-———70.5——722-——0.00013
Iowa——————54.5——351-——0.00011
Wisconsin-———39.6——453-——0.00008
North Dakota-——9.7-——43-——0.00006
South Dakota——11.3-——44-——0.00005
Montana—————2.65——19-——0.000019
1. Montana I know would like to crow that their early total shut down is/was the key, but the comparative data above suggests natural not man made reasons.
2. Given the closeness of population density and death rate of North and South Dakota their different policies do not explain their death rates. And it seems altogether that population density is the major factor between them all regardless of state policies.
Yes, viruses like flu and the Wuhan Virus have a natural course.
Niel Ferguson actually has a HISTORY of sky high death estimates.
His projections led to millions of British livestock killed due to hoof and mouth disease projections. And it turned out inspectors were spreading it through unsterilized shoes.
He predicted up to fifty thousand dead from mad cow disease.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2002/jan/09/research.highereducation
He predicted up to 200 million dead from bird flu. Note that’s worse than the Wuhan virus and they still didn’t lock everything down.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/sep/30/birdflu.jamessturcke