If you overlaid an infection/death map with a typical Presidential electoral map by county, they would be nearly identical.

We were “unified” for all of about ten days, until unaffected people got restless and economically damaged, and the affected areas became paranoid that everyone else was going to kill them and not care about it.

Then those two camps, which already oppose each other on several levels, decided to declare a new civil war over $3 masks.