Posted on 04/22/2020 6:49:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
According to The New York Times coronavirus report, as of Sunday, April 19, 2:48 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, there were 35,676 COVID-19 deaths in the United States. Of those deaths, 18,690 were in the New York metropolitan area.
(The New York metropolitan area is generally regarded as consisting of the five boroughs of New York City, the five New York State counties surrounding New York City -- Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester, Rockland and Orange -- and the populous parts of New Jersey and Connecticut.)
That means that more than half (52%) of all deaths in America have occurred in the New York metropolitan area.
What makes this statistic particularly noteworthy is that the entire death toll for 41 of the other 47 states is 7,661. In other words, while New York has 52% of all COVID-19 deaths in America, 41 states put together have only 21% of the COVID-19 deaths. And all the 47 states other than New York, New Jersey and Connecticut have less than half (48%).
Now let us imagine that the reverse were true. Imagine that Georgia and North Carolina -- two contiguous states that, like the New York metro area, have a combined total of 21 million people -- had 18,690 COVID-19 deaths, while metro New York had 858 deaths (the number of deaths in North Carolina and Georgia combined).
Do you think the New York metro area would close its schools, stores, restaurants and small businesses? Would every citizen of the New York area, with the few exceptions of those engaged in absolutely necessary work, be locked in their homes for months? Would New Yorkers accept the decimation of their economic and social lives because North Carolina and Georgia (or, even more absurdly, Colorado, Montana
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I would love to know how many of these deaths in NYC are subway related. BTW subways are still operating.
Yes something is very suspicious about of the weird and uneven restrictions in various deep blue states.
No, but they would still demand federal money.
Actually the liberal New Yorkers would be celebrating.
No worries. All those dead people will vote Democrat forever now. And after all isn’t that’s what’s really important?
If half the deaths are in one city we should wall off that city...
Prager is either missing the point or simply ignoring it.
It is deaths that count. The what, not the where. 1 of every 1000 people in NYC have died from CV in the last 6 weeks or so.
I personally could care less about NY or NYC but they are the test tube we are looking at. We can ignore what we see and play what if games all we want and it won’t change the facts on the ground.
But back to work we go. A necessity for certain. But don’t assume people will stop dying from the virus when we do.
LOL
This is so stupid my head hurts.
Uh yeah if 18000 people in Montana died I’m sure the rest of the country would notice.
Nope, they would just call them a bunch of backwards rednecks who live in a red state, then go about thier day.
Nearly all of them, according to an MIT study that came out a few days ago.
Which has exactly nothing to do with Montana, Idaho, South Dakota or Wyoming.
Yup.
According to The New York Times coronavirus report, as of Sunday, April 19, 2:48 p.m. Eastern Standard Time...
Eastern Daylight Time...
Prager is 100% right on. We should get back to work everywhere except New York. The rest of us do not live our lives like New Yorkers, thank you very much.
Andy Cuomo can answer that. “If half the deaths were in Montana that would be the responsibility of the Montanan national government. But we’re talking about Americans in New York, not some foreigners from Montana!”
The deaths in NYC as opposed to NY state is far higher than 1 per 1000. It is closer to 1,500 now for the 9 million in the 5 boroughs. The subways are nearly empty now. Something is off with these numbers which are the highest in the world.
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