This is just a random item from the front page of Google News, and for me, is Just another reason to look at county statistics in the U.S.A., and not state-wide statistics. These are two rural “gold-country” counties that run up the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains from the very red central valley south of Sacramento.
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From MyMotherLode.com:
2 Covid Deaths And 10 New Covid Cases In Tuolumne [County], 18 New Cases In Calaveras [County]
Published Dec 10, 2021
Tuolumne County Public Health reports two deaths, a woman in her 60s and a man in his 70s. There are 10 new Covid cases since yesterday, all are unvaccinated, the man and woman who passed away were unvaccinated.
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Lame humor: It looks like they do have tradition of social distancing in California gold country, however.