Outside Of The Spotlight, Coronavirus Spreads Through Rural America | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC

Rachel Maddow looks at how the coronavirus is spreading to rural areas of the United States where smaller populations do not necessarily mean greater safety and where hospital resources can be more challenging. Aired on 04/08/2020.
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Outside Of The Spotlight, Coronavirus Spreads Through Rural America | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC

102 comments

    1. @darknite 123222 Trump is for all Americans.It’s because he is not a politician.The left attacking Trump is only exposing they’re corruption.Example..Accusing Trump of quid pro quo exposed Biden real quid pro quo.Biden is being supported for a job that the media and dem congress said Trump was wrong on doing

    1. @D SP It’s still a bad and very silly idea, but unfortunately many of the so-called devout are very silly and praying won’t make the coronavirus away.

  1. Bless you all and do not listen to Moronvirus. Stay educated, stay safe, stay home and do your part to help.

    1. @CRedding94 This is not the time for your Democrat hoaxing, fake news BS American lives, livelihoods and businesses are at stake.

    2. @Bono Budju Well then go out and mingle then make a point of showing your Trump loving friends and relatives how much you care by giving their inbred, barely literate, rural shitkicking bodies a big hug and kiss.
      Just stay away from anyone who manages to live as if we’ve left the 19th Century. Sacrificing the ‘TRUE AMERICANS’ from the irrelevant flyover states is a risk we city/college types are willing to take.

    3. @Snaggle Toothed That’s exactly what Trump the Moronvirus wants you to do. I’m saying ignore Moronvirus. Can you read

    4. “t@Bono Budjuhis is not the time for your Democrat hoaxing, fake news BS ” , in Italy, France, Britain or any of the many other country’s are afflicted by this virus and you wont see stupid comments like yours. Those country’s may have the virus but fortunately for them they don’t have idiots like you calling the virus fake news.

    1. @Gabriel Brolly how am I supposed to respond to something so eloquently said? Your grasp of language is astounding!

  2. You mean all the communities that predominantly voted for the architect of this pandemic?…

    1. Yeup didn’t you hear? Trump hand delivered the virus to China!!!!!! He made it at the bar at a golf course!!!

    2. @Joseph Swift You don’t even know the difference between You’re, Your and Yore. I think you are the moron as your own post shows. Thank you for humiliating yourself.

    3. @CRedding94 LMAO
      When you are so dumb you can’t even spell ” yep ” correctly…
      I want to thank you Trump supporters for continuing to humiliate yourselves for our entertainment.

  3. The republican governor of Alabama just ordered everyone to stay at home last Saturday. She’s right up there with the genius in the WH.

    1. The blue states are way ahead of the reds. The Atlanta Governor actually said he didn’t know that asymptomatic people could pass on the virus. Dangerous and incompetent.

    2. The red states think shelter in place means you should die at home so you never count as a COVID death.

    3. We’ve been home about 4 weeks here. Our governor doesn’t listen to the WH at all and we’re doing much better for it.

    4. The people should be ruling not the government you idiots dont realize life in usa is becoming more socialist

  4. For a second there, I found it hard to believe that that hospital didn’t even have ONE ventilator. But then I remembered who our so called president is.😔

    1. @TURKEYNATION the government dosen’t provide any health insurance. Im not on welfare,ex military or ex government as ALL these people receiclve this “welfare”.

      Your comment confused me as its content dosen’t match the topic

    2. They didn’t have a single ventilator because the Governor of Washington State was Hoarding 400 of them, he later released them, unused.

    1. @Lean like a Cholo I am going to have to respectfully disagree. There is for sure a crazy far left, but it’s easy to tell apart from the mainstream left. On the right it’s getting harder and harder to tell the crazy from the mainstream. You seem like a normal right leaning person, but in my humble opinion the crazies are drowning your voice out.

    2. @Lean like a Cholo amicable disagreement, who would have thought it possible nowadays. You have a good night.

    1. @Joe Paleface T-Rump just said that federal government has no money for testing …do you believe him ?
      Thats the T-Rump government that just got 2000 billion dollars stimulus to handle this and now claims there is no money for Covid 19 testing .

    2. @Pete Lind Fake news said that,Trump didn’t..You listen to what he says before and after what he says.Fake news take parts of what he says and spins it’s Your getting played.. 4 years 24-7 played

  5. Maybe they just need the whole congregation to lay their hands on him and pray all at the same time. That will do it… yaaa Thats the ticket.. the layin on of hay’nds!

  6. Traitor boy and the republicans have already voiced their opinion on such things: Screw the people that have died, move on and forget about it…

    1. @Joe Paleface awww. That’s all you can say to people who are calling your fake leader out isn’t it? Because that’s the only way you can rationalize his actions.

  7. Rural hospitals are dying with no end in sight. In rural areas everyone goes to the same gas station, same breakfast nook, same farm and ranch store, etc. So you have Trumpists that don’t believe in COVID-19 and don’t wear PPE going to the same spots. BTW that increase in contracting rates of the virus probably comes from rural people visiting relatives or going shopping in cities. The sad fact is that “the curve” is just delayed in real areas and having a more elderly population than in cities just means the suffering will occur at a later date. Your guns aren’t going to protect you, nor Jesus.

    1. Yourlife Endsnow you can wait for him maybe he helps you. But I think he has no time at the moment because everyone needs help.

    2. @Yourlife Endsnow You’re claiming your god sent this virus? Nice…. Go gather in your churches, infect each other and then the sane people can get on with their lives.

    3. *04/09/2020*
      Landwy
      I’m with ya on the guns being no protection against the virus; but *Jesus* has everything under control, even this virus. All of us, each person on the planet will behold Him upon His return & will eventually learn what the true reasoning & outcome of this virus & all other events.
      👑 *Jesus is King* 👑
      If you’re not a follower of Jesus, the time is perfect to repent, turn from your sins, accept Jesus as your personal Lord & Saviour. Once you die, you will *not* be given a second chance. Today is the day of salvation friend. Please, heed my words, dear ones.
      👑 *Jesus is King* 👑
      *Philippians 2:9-11*

  8. »Very sad what these “Republicans” have done to their country. We’ve seen evil, and demons at work, but these politicians are reaching Satanic status very, very rapidly. – J.

  9. He said it was just like a seasonal flu.
    He said it was all “very strongly” under control
    He said it would be over by Easter.
    String him up.

  10. Trump and the Alabama Governor did a perfect job. Hmmm so why is it spreading?? It must be a hoax

    1. It must be the people who cannot even control rats on their streets much less a microorganism – Communist sympathisers (dems). Coming from the same people who said “there is no evidence of human to human transmission” while fighting “racism”. Way to go guys 👍

  11. Alabama start to rethink trump and his Republican cronies. They been lying to Americans on a life or death pandemic. Fox also to blame

    1. @Carlos Carlos You think food animals are treated much better, or the sanitation is 1st rate, in N. American slaughter houses or food processing plants? Every animal, bat, pig, cow, camel, fish, shellfish, etc. comes complete with it’s own set of viruses and they can mutate regardless of what country they’re in.
      If not caused by co-mingling of animals, it will happen via travel/globalization or climate change (forces animals to leave their original habitants and interact with new organisms, plants, animals, etc.) or just because viruses are just pretty good at mutating.

    2. @milomilo55 although some of what you wrote is true , that still doesn’t change the fact the Chinese people have made and delivered to the rest of the world the worst virus in over 100 years.

    3. ​@Carlos Carlos They didn’t _make_ the covid-19, or the virus responsible for that disease, anymore more than the US _made_ cat scratch fever, some area or other _made_ the bubonic plague or that Africa is responsible for dengue fever. This racist narrative is really disturbing. I really don’t remember ever seeing such an ongoing and concerted effort, especially one led by a head of state, to stir up this type of racist, blame game, finger pointing over disease in my 60+ years.
      We’ve helped people with ebola, tried to aid those places and people affected by MERS, SARS, malaria, etc. and never before has a race or country been blamed.
      China didn’t _make_ or _send_ the virus or disease. They were first affected by it, yes, and international travelors going to and from China, Egypt, Italy, the US, Iran, Canada, etc. carried it around the world.
      You can possibly blame them for trying to hide what was happening (but it had already spread before they knew they had it) as long as they did and/or try critcize their methods of treatment (though it was brand new so no one knew what it was or how to treat it) or inability to contain it or test for it but those later criticisms, re: treatment, testing, containment can also be applied to all other countries that saw what was happening and failed to act quickly enough or take the appropriate measures.

    4. @milomilo55the shared opinion among the world science community is covid 19 was born in a Chinese live animal market when bat blood and faeces was introduced to pig blood and feces also in the mix was a animal called a pengalin . These markets have been outlawed by the authorities because of there lack of hygiene but continued to exist. So it is definitely the fault of the citizens of China for this world wide plague. I guess the vietnamese people are just as ” racist ” as me against the Chinese because the Chinese were banned from crossing the Vietnam border. Why do you want to be willfully ignorant of the facts ?

    5. ​@Carlos Carlos There seems to be a lot of confusion between fresh food markets (called “wet markets” in China) which sell fresh veg. fruits, fish, meats etc., and which exist in a many, many countries, European, Asian and elsewhere under the names of “farmers markets”, “Food stalls”, etc. and illegal wildlife markets. The fresh food markets, which are incorrectly being blamed as the sites for the first mutated virus, often get their foods from the same wholesalers that supermarkets do – just like many so-called farmers markets do elsewhere.
      Where the virus is actually suspected to have originated is not the farmers markets/wet markets but illegal wildlife markets that are gang or criminally organized – and not supported and/or regulated because they’re illegal. Illegal and/or exotic animals aren’t limited to China. Think you can’t find non-regulated, non-inspected _illegal_ animals like muskrat, bobcat and rattlesnake being sold for meat in the US or similar non-legal animals, being housed together, and sold in almost any country?
      If you insist on targeting some race or country then critcize them for not being able to better control criminals and gangs because that’s who runs the illegal non-inspected, non-regulated wildlife markets – in all countries.
      I’m not ignorant. I just like facts more than playing the blame game because it serves no purpose and could be aimed at any country for any number of things.
      Edit: I assume you’re willing to take the blame for any/all illegal activies carried out by American criminals, right, because “it is definitely the fault of the citizens….”

  12. Rural areas that thought COVID-19 was a “Democrat hoax” are now getting the coronavirus? What a shock……NOT!

    1. @PCBacklash _ Tons of people on YouTube were saying it was just like the flu. I live in a country area and we only have one death. I’m retired and I don’t leave the house. I made sure I had many months of food.

    2. @K41 Who cares I’m not even a Trump fan. But I saw what he said and you’re twisting his words.

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