The plight of rural areas

The media focus mostly on major markets where consumers are concentrated, where they have offices and where their reporters and editors live and work. But the epidemic is, if anything, more dangerous and difficult to deal with rural areas. The main problem is simply lack of resources. Many rural hospitals have closed in recent years. There aren't enough beds or doctors and they are too far away for many people.

Many outbreaks in rural areas and small cities in less populous  regions have already occurred. These include Chambers County, Alabama; Dougherty County, Georgia; and the Shreveport, Louisiana area just for starters. The corporate media don't pay much attention to these places but it's happening everywhere.

The outbreak that centers on New York City is actually very widespread into the leafy suburbs of Fairfield County, Connecticut and northern New Jersey. These are affluent areas that do have substantial hospital resources and the political clout to demand more. But in rural areas people also go to church, go shopping, go to work, visit their neighbors, go to restaurants. (Reporters love to interview them in diners and bars.) They also catch infectious diseases.