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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That spot over Atlanta is just as bright in the night sky outside as it is on that map. It’s never pitch dark. Kind of odd when I walk the dog at 2:AM.
Is it delivered through the power line?
Wilford Brimley was Little Debbie’s grandfather.
As of this week, appx. 360 v1 Starlink satellites are orbited. IIRC from past reading, initial basic service will start rolling out the around 1,200 satellite mark, and scale up from there. There’s a Falcon 9 going up every few weeks with 60 more satellites. This will accelerate rapidly if & when the Starship becomes operational, but at this point, that rocket has not yet flown.
Hope this helps.
If only we could be sure the pizza drivers were clean...
It’s fiber optic. EPB (Electric Power Board) has it also in Chattanooga. Their website is more informative. https://epb.com/
4052 square miles in my county, not my country, please re read #30. However I was wrong on people, 136,000 not 186,000.
Wait until this thing gets into India
Yes. How has India avoided it to this point? It will wipe out that shithole.
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