Posted on 04/14/2020 12:27:23 PM PDT by Hojczyk
As everyone knows, New York City is the main center of COVID-19 infection and fatality in the U.S., with something like 40% of all American deaths. The reasons why shouldn’t be a mystery.
When the Black Death struck Europe in the 14th Century, people had no idea what caused the disease, and all of their theories were wrong. But experience showed, as was the case in later plagues, that the countryside was safer than the city. Most people who could decamped from cities to the country.
And New York City, with more than 28,000 people per square mile, is by far the most densely populated major US city. San Francisco is second at around 18,500, and cities like Chicago, Philadelphia and Washington are in the 11,000 to 12,000 range.
There is a second factor that I suspect is also very important: New York’s reliance on mass transit. New York’s mass transit system–mostly its subways–is, by a huge margin, the most relied-upon public transportation system in the U.S. It carries a remarkable 2,275,000,000 riders per year.
Another point is worth mentioning. Why don’t we think of New York as a chronically sick place? Because people build up immunity to diseases that have been around for a while, and the more people you are exposed to, the more likely you are to be immune. But when a new disease like COVID-19 comes along, a virus to which no one has built up immunity, the population density and public transportation factors come to the fore and New York becomes a very sick city, compared to anywhere else.
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Because we’re three-dimensional.
And filthy conditions on those public transit systems. Not enough bathrooms. It’s a mess in NYC.
Public officials ( Mayor, Governor, state Health Commissioner) ,telling people to go out and enjoy themselves in crowds
Up until just 30 days ago
Yes
And a NYC super spreader was some woman who traveled to and from Iran
“a virus to which no one has built up immunity”
Well, that may not be correct. According to some studies, on in Iceland, 50% of the people who have the virus are asymptomatic.
Where did that come from if there is NO immunity?
Even if the virus is man made, which I think is probable, evidently some have an immune system that handles it.
“WHY IS NEW YORK HARDEST HIT?”
Because it sucks the most?
Because they have the most vigorous welfare system. They looked for more of a problem, and found it.
“There is a large financial inventive to twist any patient’s symptoms into some sort of SARS-COV-2 related illness. For example, a patient gets diagnosed for a flu virus, it becomes with a stroke of the pen a coronavirus.”
BINGO! We have a Winner!
“...Why do PORT CITIES have more ‘cat houses...”
Sailors out to sea for month on end getting shore leave?
Divine justice?
ah the lyrics that made no sense once you actually read them :)
Told by Military intel guy .
Grand central trains and subways .
Major Bug spreader .
They still are spreading it .
I get ill just thinking about being there.
“Singapore is also quite dense, but seems to be faring much better.”
Let Singapore government run NYC ...canings begin at dawn.
Watch the movie.
New York = Italians... Lots of Italians.
Secession is the only cure for the Wuhan Scam.
The subway and elevators. Every freaking building has elevators. 90% of people in NYC have to ride them multiple times daily. I grew up in Queens, living on the 23rd floor of a high rise apartment building. Most people in NYC live in 8-story apartment buildings with elevators.
Loved that movie, but watching Charles Bronson pretend to be a wimp at the beginning of the movie required more suspension of disbelief than any SciFi flick.
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