NJ is the second worst china-virus state in the nation with 85,000 cases and 4,202 deaths attributed to it but if you look into it, nearly all of the cases are clustered in a handful of counties adjacent to NYC. These are NYC suburbs, filled with people who work and party in NYC. If you look south of, say, Trenton (right in the middle of the state) we have virtually no cases. I think 2,000ish in the entire southern half and around 500 deaths (about half of those in Ocean County which includes much of the shore homes owned by ... you guessed it ... New York City people). So if we leave out Ocean county is't less than 300 deaths in the entire southern half of the state.
So what I want to know from the Governor is why we are on the same lockdown as North Jersey, and what his plan is to ease restrictions on us? But what I heard from the NJ coronovirus info page is that they are saying that because North Jersey has flattened the curve, they may get easing of restrictions but since south NJ has had so few cases we haven't flattened the curve you so we may not get them. If it plays out that way I'll lose my mind.