Macomb has a much higher death rate than Oakland or Wayne counties. I wonder why that is?
Oakland and Macomb so far are around 3% on the death rate. This could be just the statistics in general (older folks in Macomb, Oakland isn’t far behind?), or the lag of when the people in an area got the disease against how far along it’s progressed.
I would point out too that I live in northern Oakland county, but in a lower population density area. Two and a half weeks ago when I went to Meijer (local version of Walmart), I couldn’t help but notice there were a lot less “local folk” in the store in comparison to all the shoppers, and the way they were shopping it appeared that the zombie apocalypse had started and I missed that memo. Unfortunately it appeared that folks in the higher density areas had quickly changed to heading out of potentially infected stores to do a lot of heavy shopping. With many people unaware of if they may or may not be infected, this only helps to spread things out quicker.
For those of you in parts of the country “unaffected” right now, keep your head on straight, keep the 6’ distance, don’t go out unless you have to. And remember the catch phrase for 2020: Hunker in your bunker!