The NYC subway system — perhaps the single most likely place on the planet for the transmission of viral pathogens — was never shut down.
In MAY, that mutt Andrew Cuomo announced that the subway cars would be cleaned and disinfected on a regular basis.
The Wuhan virus didn’t destroy NYC. It just exposed a level of ineptitude in city and state government that wouldn’t be tolerated in a cage full of monkeys at the zoo.
My gosh I had been saying the same thing since February. It was so obvious that mass transit = mass transmission of disease. They should have shut the subway down well before March, and definitely by the end of March.
I’ve heard anecdotal evidence from people who visited the east coast even before February - some in November - who claimed they got gobsmacked by the worst case of ‘flu’ they ever had in their lives. They think they probably did have the virus, before we even know it existed. Since there are very few anti-body tests available, and no consensus on how long the anti-bodies last we may not ever know.
The one thing I have not heard discussed at all is how NYC is, right now, perhaps the “flattest curve” in the entire country. Why is that? Perhaps something to do with herd immunity. Again, just a semi-educated guess, but I’d venture to say the virus ravaged every person it could. Many died. Many more got sick. Many got sick and either had minimal or no symptoms and their bodies ultimately defeated the virus. No way to know for sure. But NYC got hit with the peak very hard very fast due to the lifestyle and density of the region, and is now over it... but other parts of the country it’s a much more elongated slope.