Posted on 04/04/2020 4:50:32 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
As the CPP virus swipes through the United States, much attention has been paid to the situation in large cities. That’s not, however, where the rate of infection has been the highest.
The epidemic has been the most concentrated in three suburbs around New York City as well as in New Orleans.
While New York City has the highest number of confirmed cases, over 57,000, when counted per capita, the worst hit is Rockland County, a neighboring suburb of some 325,000 on the west side of the Hudson River.
More than one in 67 Rockland residents has tested positive, a rate over twice as high as in New York City.
Westchester County, a large suburb across the river from Rockland, has about one in 74 residents confirmed infected, a total of more than 13,000 cases as of April 3, according to the state’s Department of Health.
New Orleans, the largest city in Louisiana with a population of nearly 400,000, is the third most affected area in the nation, with more than 1 in 100 testing positive.
(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...
New York City hosted a Chinese New Year celebration. The mayor encouraged the citizens to attend the event. New Orleans hosted Madri Gras and enjoyed the presence of 1.5 million visitors. Some had the CCPvirus. You reap what you sow.
CCP virus?
Is that a new thing or is somebody just trying to be clever?
Renaming stuff is clever, yes.
The Epoch Times has called it the Chinese Communist Party pandemic since the beginning.
And they’re right.
FYI, what the media is not reporting is that a significant and disproportionate chunk of the Covid deaths, are African Americans. That is why the areas like Queens, Detroit, New Orleans, Albany GA, etc with substantial numbers of deaths are happening. Blacks are far more likely to be unhealthy, especially in urban areas. This fact is undoubtedly being hid from the American population out of fear that white America would lose sympathy.
Red Flu
Having it called 20 different things isn’t good marketing, no matter which is right.
And the Falun Gong times can bite my ass, buncha cultists.
I’ll bet Westchester and Rockland Counties have some of the lowest per-capita populations of Asians in the NYC metro area.
NJ is the second highest deaths. The subway explains it.
Not so sure...if there is one thing the media like more the TDS that is identity politics. Especially AA. If they could combine the two into one attack then I think they would.
Democrat mayors in NYC & NOLA ignored a President they personally do not like.
And America is suffering for it.
Westchester has a significant Black population. Rockland not so much. Westchester, contrary to belief has cities, five of them. Rockland has a very sizeable Hasidic Jewish population. See Dr. Zelenko. Hasidics in Bklyn, Rockland, some areas of Fla have not been cooperating at all with the sicial distance guidelines.
The infection rate in NYC suburbs is so high because of the mass transit system that liberals keep wanting every other city to spend billions of dollars to emulate. There is no more efficient means of spreading any airborne communicable disease than by packing most of the population into subways or light rail trains two times every day.
Just wait. The Democrats are sending letters to Trump demanding a racial breakdown of Covid cases. I have read a couple of articles in left leaning rags that blacks are way over represented with Covid deaths. In Milwaukee County blacks make up 25% of the population but are 81% of deaths. Similar pattern in Detroit and Louisiana. The media is hiding this information, because if America knew the truth that this virus is predominantly killing urban blacks with lots of medical issues and the extremely sick, the suburban moms would no longer have their panties in a bunch.
Chinese Communist Virus we like that name!!!
Yeah I too vote for CCP Virus.
This virus is HELL on people with diabetes and pre diabetes!!!
Wuhanic Plague
I guess it has nothing to do with the fact that NYC has the highest concentration of illegal aliens in the country with a Mayor and Governor that believe in wide open borders and sanctuary cities. Hell they’ll even give you a drivers license so you can zoom around and spread that virus faster on orders of the Supreme commie Emperor Xi
Bingo! Perfect name that I am using from now on.
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