As the coronavirus increasingly reaches red states and areas, Republicans are becoming moderately more concerned with it

This month, for the first time since April, our tracker of public opinion around the coronavirus shows that the share of Americans who say they are “very” concerned that they or someone they know will become infected with COVID-19 is higher than the share who say they are “somewhat” concerned.

That rise in concern is understandable, too, when you consider the spike in new coronavirus cases that began in mid-June, especially in the South and West. Just this past week, California, Florida and Texas, along with a handful of other states, saw record spikes in fatalities.

And the fact that the geography of the virus is changing — it’s no longer just a blue-state virus — may mean behaviors and political attitudes are shifting once again. To be clear, there are still deep political divides in how concerned people are about the virus, but there are also some signs that Republicans may be growing more concerned.

As you can see in this chart, the share of Republicans who reported staying home as much as possible has ticked up by at least 10 points since the start of July.

So COVID's gonna go from partisan to not partisan to partisan to not partisan because all the Republicans are dead? Based /s

All so sadly predictable :(.