AM64
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It was actually the overreaction to Covid mainly by blue states that (in an election year mind you) that brought the employment numbers down.
Blues states are blue states because they have big population centers. Cities are pest holes; they would have been hard hit by proximity alone. It's very possible the employment outcome would have been much the same there shutdown or not. All those garage/hospitals and the hospital ship in the harbor might very well have been working overtime, but that's conjecture. I look at transmission of stuff you don't want from the nuclear perspective of time. distance, and shielding. How you handle each one of those affects the transmission probability, and the only thing you can change easily in a city is shielding or possibly limiting personal interaction. I've never studied facts and figures if they are even available. but it seems like with every plague, cities were the hardest hit because people are crammed together (Italy vs Sweden also); that would seem to dictate how blue and red states will fare at a time like this.
