Coronavirus in rural America (Part XXI): the greatest income disparity in the U.S.

That would be Teton County, Wyoming, home to Jackson Hole.  Here's an excerpt from the New York Times story headlined "Where the Very Rich Fly to Hide," by Justin Farrell, author of Billionaire Wilderness:

The chasm between the rich and the rest in Teton County is bridged by an uneasy alliance between the wealthy owners of vacation homes and the lower-income residents who depend on them for their livelihoods. The county has the country’s widest disparity in income between the top 1 percent and the bottom 99. Now the pandemic is laying bare the tensions of that relationship as service workers must choose between continuing to do jobs that may expose them to the virus, or risk the loss of wages, health insurance and eviction. All three of the area’s ski resorts shut down about a month early because of the pandemic, and restaurants and the national parks are closed.

One Jackson, Wyoming airport worker commented:

It’s disgraceful to see people not understand the severity of the problems. It makes it uneasy to provide the services we do to these kinds of people. I live paycheck to paycheck and I don’t have much saved up in my account to handle a serious illness.

And here's a New York Times opinion piece from about 10 days ago on why the wealthy fear pandemics.  In it, Walter Scheidel, a professor at Stanford University, draws parallels between the coronavirus and the bubonic plague and discusses how that earlier health crisis diminished laborers' willingness to do crappy work for crappy pay.