I agree with you that NYC, because of its population density, was going to be hit hard, but then why NJ and Conn.? 50 miles from NYC, the deaths were the highest in the world. Where I live in NJ it isn’t bad at all. I know no one who has had it and know no one who knows anyone who has died of it.
It was a mistake to lock down the whole country because of NYC, NJ and Conn.
“I agree with you that NYC, because of its population density, was going to be hit hard, but then why NJ and Conn.? 50 miles from NYC, the deaths were the highest in the world.”
Northern NJ is a workers bedroom for folks that have jobs in New York but don’t want to pay the residential costs of NYC. The same is true for the coastal stretch of CT, with I-95 and the commuter trains as the conduits for CT residents who work in NY. In the largest sense, NJ, CT, the western end of Long Island, Rockland County and Westchester county are part of the metro NYC area and have a lot of NYC commuter residents.
When I first moved to New Jersey it was only to get more square feet per dollar for my residence. I continued to work in and around NYC for the next 20-30 years.
“I agree with you that NYC, because of its population density, was going to be hit hard, but then why NJ and Conn.? 50 miles from NYC, the deaths were the highest in the world.”
Northern NJ is a workers bedroom for folks that have jobs in New York but don’t want to pay the residential costs of NYC. The same is true for the coastal stretch of CT, with I-95 and the commuter trains as the conduits for CT residents who work in NY. In the largest sense, NJ, CT, the western end of Long Island, Rockland County and Westchester county are part of the metro NYC area and have a lot of NYC commuter residents.
When I first moved to New Jersey it was only to get more square feet per dollar for my residence. I continued to work in and around NYC for the next 20-30 years.
And I think the population density of NJ along the Hudson River and within commuter range from there west a bit, is much greater than other parts of NJ.
Note that Israel is about the same size and population as New Jersey.
Israel has had fewer than 300 deaths and is opening up.
Of course, Israel didn’t allow depraved officials to put CV patients in uninfected nursing homes.