Yes! Someone’s been looking at my husband’s research. He found 60% cases/ deaths in greater NYC; 2.5% cases/ deaths in LA County. Population density greater NYC 60,000 per square mile. Population density LA County 2,000 per square mile.
No wonder so many people hurled when hearing this.
https://www.metrolyrics.com/people-lyrics-barbra-streisand.html
Barbra Streisand - People Lyrics
We travel single-oh
Maybe we’re lucky, but I don’t know
With them,
Just let one kid fall down
And seven mothers faint.
I guess we’re both happy, but maybe
We ain’t.
People
people who need people
Are the luckiest people in the world,
We’re children, needing other children
And yet letting our grown-up pride
Hide all the need inside,
Acting more like children
Than children.
Lovers are very special people,
They’re the luckiest people
In the world.
With one person, one very special person
A feeling deep in your soul
Says you were half,
Now you’re whole.
No more hunger and thirst
But first be a person
Who needs people.
People who need people
Are the luckiest people
In the world!
I wish I could get the deaths/million population figures for the major cities. Perhaps it would discourage people from working and living in them. Perhaps efficiency made it efficient for the virus to multiply.
These analysis are all out the window if somebodies have / are purposefully spreading the virus... the data conclusions will mean nothing if that is the case
I have been saying the same thing for weeks. I cannot imagine a more efficient means of infecting as many people as possible in the shortest time possible than by packing half of your population into subway cars a couple times per day.
There is not much NYC can do about the population density on workdays. Subways, Taxis, Grand Central Station, crowded elevators and crowded offices is what they have to work with. They are stuck.
They can stay home or go to work. If they go back to work, and of course they must, the death toll will accelerate again.
the author is trying to distinguish metropolitan area vs. urban area and he makes the point.
per wiki and census bureau estimates
The city of NY proper has approx. 8.5 million distributed over about 302.64 square miles
The city of LA proper has approx. 3.9 million distributed over about 468.67 square miles
Cuomo, deblasio and the NYC health commissioner where telling NY’ers early on, not to worry its a typical flu season, resume your normal activities, ride the trains and buses, meet with friends, go to shows, even Pelousy said visit the Chinese new year festival in lower Manhattan. This in it self made the death toll and infection rat skyrocket and made NY the epicenter
This is so interesting. Thanks for finding it and posting it!
This has always been understood with person-to-person transmissible infections - greater population density translates to more infections per X number of people.
This should have translated into flexible, as opposed to one-size-fits all shutdowns and “social distancing” relative to greater or lesser population densities.
Can we fire all sitting state and federal office holders, for being panic driven and not logical?