Idaho is 2nd worst state at coronavirus prevention? Ugh. Even Rachel Maddow ripped us.

I don’t know about you, Idaho, but I really hate looking like a loser.

Unfortunately, the past 24 hours have made it difficult to feel like we’re “winning” in the Gem State.

WalletHub, a personal finance website that creates metrics-based state rankings of everything, just pumped out a coronavirus study that will make Idahoans want to hide under their beds — or, at least, never leave the house.

That came roughly 12 hours after Rachel Maddow blasted Idaho Gov. Brad Little’s laissez-faire COVID-19 policies on her MSNBC show. (Hey, at least she promoted the front page of the Idaho Statesman’s website on-air.)

And have you heard about this new “Social Distancing Scoreboard”? Yeah, it’s a thing. A company that analyzes phone location GPS data just gave Idahoans a grade of D when it comes to staying home and the hell away from each other.

First things first: Idaho ranks 48th out of the 50 states and the District of Columbia when it comes to the “Most aggressive states against the coronavirus.”

(In case you needed any more reason to grumble about Californians? Yep, California is No. 1.)

WalletHub used three primary categories for its study: “Prevention & Containment,” “Risk Factors & Infrastructure” and “Economic Impact.”

Idaho finished an awful No. 50 in the scariest category: “Prevention & Containment.” Only those brainiacs in Mississippi are doing, like, more worser than Idaho, according to the latest update from WalletHub.

Is this surprising? Ask all of our neighbors flocking out for mountain recreation on this extended vacation. Or getting together for drum circles in the North End.

Containing it? Preparing for it? When everything is said and done, experts are saying that for every ICU bed in Idaho, up to 14 patients will need it during a coronavirus outbreak.

This possibility did not impress Maddow. At all. On her Monday show, the MSNBC host ripped Little for not taking statewide action. On Tuesday, she even tweeted the Idaho Statesman’s critical editorial, “Idaho Gov. Brad Little is blowing it with his response to our coronavirus outbreak.”

“You may be about to outstrip your ICU beds by a factor of 14,” Maddow said on her show. “You know what kind of condition people are in when they need an ICU bed?

“No rush, governor!” Maddow quipped. “It’ll probably work out OK. Even if you don’t do anything statewide to slow the spread in your state. Why not risk it? See what happens?”

Based on many Idahoans’ behavior, that might be our destiny. Sure, Boise Mayor Lauren McLean closed bars and restaurants. But how many party hounds went and checked out the bars in Garden City or Meridian instead last weekend?

If you base your guess on Unacast, the answer is “Everybody.” The GPS-data-analyzation company’s “Social Distancing Scoreboard” is freaky to examine. It “grades,” as The Washington Post explains, “county by county, which residents are changing behavior at the urging of health officials. It uses the reduction in the total distance we travel as a rough index for whether we’re staying put at home.”

In a nutshell, we’re not staying home. The Gem State got a grade of D. We’re among the three worst states in the nation when it comes to the Social Distancing Scoreboard.

That said, some Boiseans are taking it seriously — according to my 9-year-old son.

Last weekend, he returned from a short bicycle ride with a strange look on his face. An older woman had screamed profanities, he said, and called him an “***hole” for not being distant enough when he pedaled past her near a park.

How far did you social distance yourself, I asked?

Five feet, he admitted sheepishly.

Make it six-plus next time, little buddy. (Actually, he’ll be confined to the driveway from now on.)

Otherwise, I’m telling Rachel Maddow.

This story was originally published March 24, 2020 at 4:16 PM.