Appreciating you chiming in. That’s a great point about how different rural communities are doing different. I kind of had the impression some rural areas in the prairies were doing bad, but I didn’t off-hand have a sense of where or why. Your rough sketch with vague notions is helpful on that front.
I drove across the country on the way out to BC a couple months ago, and it’s indeed hard to imagine the farming areas in the south half of the prairies having much covid spread, whereas it makes sense that resource-extraction areas would for the 2 reasons you describe. That plus exponentials/nonlinearities seems sufficient to explain most of the discrepancy, maybe.
Appreciating you chiming in. That’s a great point about how different rural communities are doing different. I kind of had the impression some rural areas in the prairies were doing bad, but I didn’t off-hand have a sense of where or why. Your rough sketch with vague notions is helpful on that front.
I drove across the country on the way out to BC a couple months ago, and it’s indeed hard to imagine the farming areas in the south half of the prairies having much covid spread, whereas it makes sense that resource-extraction areas would for the 2 reasons you describe. That plus exponentials/nonlinearities seems sufficient to explain most of the discrepancy, maybe.