I think it shows how powerful urban politics/media vs rural have become, further supporting the importance of preserving the electoral college. There’s a reason why state capitols were built geographically away from the state’s most urban/populous city.
However, with the proliferation of communication technology, that physical separation threatens this urban vs rural political balance, evident with how these quarantine measures, further perpetuated by the media, are pushed into rural areas as if they have population densities of Manhattan.