NYC seems to be a very unusual situation.Friday I talked with a friend of mine who lives on Long Island and only goes to the city when he wants to take his girlfriend, a nurse, to a play and a movie.Even then he gets in the city and out as quickly as possible.
He told me that on a normal day if you are walking down a sidewalk and you encounter ten people you will ordinarily bump into 8 of them on everyday crowded NYC. Sounds bizarre but he said it's just the way the crowding is up there.
IN that case I started thinkging about two weeks before corona how many people could be effected in that sort of scenario with millions in the city.The numbers wee astounding.
I also asked him why first hand reports are that some hospitals in the city don't appear busy while others may be. He told me his girfriend works 90 hours a week and is falling behind. So it appears to be a mixed bag as to what is going on up there. Don't want to live here:
Worked in the city for 2 years, daughter lives there with grandson , due to custody battle, so frequent visitor and renter of some of the real living conditions.
Besides the movie portrayals of Manhattan, Central Park it’s one overcrowded , trash on the sidewalks in many of the boroughs dirty place
The subways are as Bray describes.
Born and raised in Philadelphia , aa d used their subway systems very routinely, sure they are dirty but not the dank, grime of NYC and nowhere near the sardine like conditions of a work hours ride.
Throw in the size of the buildings and the , in many case 5 + lanes of traffic and even with emissions Control a lot of emitted stuff clinging to everything.
I figure everyone in NYC has the corona, and has been infected for a few months.
Cannot figure out why so many are affected, yet a small number get very sick.
That, and broken “models” that predict nothing have the doctors running scared