I completely understand the problem but fail to see how NY,NJ, CT and Mass. flattened their curves. What would the death toll have beewithout this so-called flattening process, and wht was it so much worse than anywhere else either here or in the rest of the world?
The graphs show it.
There are many people here, and we tend to follow our leaders whenever they make sense, otherwise there is no point in having leaders.
Cuomo was a good leader in this crisis, except for the nursing homes where he could have shown a new strength, and we watched him daily and tried to do what he said. The curve would have been much steeper, and the city would have been in great mourning instead of being proud of our success, if we had not followed those early recommendations.
We can’t figure out why the southern tier of the country is not following recommendations. Some say the hot weather, some say they think they are immune because they are not in NY or NJ, some say they think they are immune because they live in a beautiful place and not piled on top of one another . . . whatever!
We have lived with disaster and we know it could have been much, much worse, worse than any of the southern states right now.
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.