Posted on 03/20/2020 3:58:43 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The United States will be hit hard by the coronavirus. But it has a secret weapon that could lessen the health impact: the way we live.
Coronavirus is so hard to stop because it is so easy to spread. As with other viruses similar to the flu, the coronavirus travels easily through the air or via human contact. That’s why public health experts are pushing social distancing. The fewer people we come into contact with, the less likely we are to contract or spread the virus.
The United States, however, already practices a form of social distancing in its daily life through suburban living. For decades, Americans have been criticized for their detached, single-family houses and their solo car commuting, but these factors may also mean that Americans are less likely to be in close quarters with strangers during their daily lives than are residents of most other developed countries. That alone means we have a form of protection many Italians or Chinese didn’t.
The data are crystal clear on this. China’s population density is 397 people per square mile. Italy’s is 532 people per square mile, and South Korea’s is 1,366. The United States, by contrast, has only 94 people per square mile. That’s got to be a fact in our favor.
We also come into contact with fewer people when we commute. According to the 2017 American Community Survey, more than 80 percent of Americans either work from home or commute alone by car. In Beijing and X’ian, on the other hand, only 30 percent of commuters travel by car. Italians similarly use public transit much more frequently than do most Americans. A paper from the Brookings Institution says that the average resident of Milan, the epicenter of Italy’s coronavirus outbreak, takes 350 trips a year on
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27-35 for my county.
Wait, is the Jersey Devil infected? He may have got it from the Headless Horseman.
Imagine one building where 750,000 people shuffle past each other in a day, and which has a ball-room, which as many as 100,000 people enter and leave it during the peak hour. Imagine also that before and after leaving the building that about half sit in little rooms holding 50-100 people for half an hour up to 2 hours then re-sort, pass through one of the three main rooms, and then sit in another little room with 30-50 again for 15 minutes. Now do that twice a day. That’s Grand Central Station with its adjoining Metro North and the subway system.
It’s amazing more people don’t get sick.
The Wuhan Virus: Discrediting Agenda 21 Since 2020. :)
At less than 35 homes per mile it made no sense when I was building CATV plant in the 80’s. My guess is it hasn’t gotten any cheaper.
Wait, is the Jersey Devil infected? He may have got it from the Headless Horseman.
... and the flying cockroaches.
... and the humidity.
... and the hurricanes.
Yep, you definitely don’t want to move from CA or NY or IL to Florida.
The Adirondack National Park is about 1/4 of NYS's land area.
It's stinking DESOLATE north of the thruway.
I wonder what NY's population density would be if you took out NYC and it's boroughs.
I think NYC skews NYS’s numbers a bit.
https://www1.nyc.gov/site/planning/planning-level/nyc-population/population-facts.page
With a July 2015 population of 8,550,405, New York is the most populous city in the United States, more than twice the size of the second largest city, Los Angeles.
About 1 in every 38 people living in the United States resides in New York City.
New York has the highest population density of any major city in the United States, with over 27,000 people per square mile.
New York City has more people than 40 of the 50 U.S. states.
New York City comprises over two-fifths of New York State’s entire population.
(Clouseau accent)
Even in the major population centers, outside of the coasts we don’t live on top of each other.
I remember arguing with Willie. Time and again!
Those were the days...
Thanks for posting!
Very interesting info!
Where did you get 4052 square miles for the US? The actual area is 3.8 Million square miles
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