Posted on 07/11/2020 4:51:25 PM PDT by RightGeek
Few may have noticed that 42 percent of all COVID deaths in the US come from just three statesNew Jersey, New York, and Massachusetts. These three states account for nearly 56,000 of the nearly 133,000 deaths in the US, even though they represent just 10 percent of the population. If these three states are excluded, the US suddenly finds itself somewhere in between nations such as Luxembourg (176/1M) and Macedonia (166/1M), where some of the better fatality numbers in Europe are found.
Why have New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts suffered so much more than other US states? We dont yet know the answer to that question, but evidence suggests it could be policy related.
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Secondly, there is currently a great deal of scrutiny on states such as Florida, Texas, and Arizona, which have seen case numbers increase in recent weeks, a spike that began in mid-June after states reopened their economies. The implication is that these states dropped the ball by reopening too soon.
None of these states, however, has a per capita fatality rate that even approaches New Jersey, Massachusetts, or New York.
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Considering these numbers, one would not expect to see a governor from New Jersey, New York, or Massachusetts lecture these other states on their handling of the coronavirus. But thats exactly what Gov. Cuomo did, claiming his state-ordered lockdown saved lives and chastening governors who opened their economies.
I say to them all look at the numbers, Cuomo said, referring to leaders in the states seeing rises in COVID-19 cases. You played politics with this virus, and you lost. You told the people of this state, you told the people of this country, the White House, Dont worry about it. Go about your business.
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I don’t agree. It would have been hard to do but he should have fired Zucker, or whoever it was who was blocking the proper care of the elderly in the nursing home disaster. That would have made him a popular hero and was the right thing to do.
And one comment about “climate change,” which has nothing to do with anything, was totally inappropriate.
He did fine. We are pleased with our low numbers and are trying to get to Phase 3.
you are pleased with having over 1/3 of the deaths in the country when combined with NJ and now want to give Cuomo credit for the natural history of the disease burning itself out in a given area? give me a minute - I have some real estate i want to sell you.
We’re pleased that the 1/3 was not even greater. You have no idea what it was like here. Still is crazy but we’re moving on.
The point is the craziness was the fault of your leaders. Im glad you are pleased he didnt kill more unnecessarily
NY’s curve doesn’t look very flattened to me. It looks like a dramatic rise and then a dramatic fall, which to me is what you’d get with nearly uncontrolled spread leading to a rapid onset of something like herd immunity and then a rapid falloff. I don’t consider them to have ever really locked NYC down because they left the subways open.
But the result seems to be that NYC lucked out and hit the perfect sweet spot where they *almost* saturated the health care system but not quite. They went up to the line but not over it, giving them the max number of cases in the shortest time without excess deaths (leaving nursing homes aside). They took the brunt and got it over with quickly. We in the South are now experiencing the slow motion version. As long as we don’t saturate the hospitals, the result will be the same; it’ll just take longer.
Anyone that hasn’t spent sometime in the City has no idea
of how hard it is to isolate one person from the other.
Cuomo was both good and bad, but the good outweighed the bad. The nursing home catastrophe was the only bad part.
We didn’t “luck out.” We had stringent recommendations and still do. Almost everyone here is super-careful. We could still get superspreaders from the states that went wild and have to continue to be vigilant.
My guess would be those projects that large metropolitan areas push for until they’re blue in the face...
Mass transit.
All that jammed-in stuff. Buses, trains, elevators, etc, etc, etc.
Yeah,except for those 7000 nursing home residents Granny Killer Cuomo condemned to die a miserable death, Little Mario was a real mensch.
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