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Would it work for Chicago, Austin, not to mention New York?
by Ma8ee 7y ago
Would it work for Chicago, Austin, not to mention New York?
- holri 7y agowhy not?
- Ma8ee 7y agoBecause Americans might not tolerate being quarantined.
- bobthepanda 7y agoMilan has a metropolitan population of 7.2 million, not far behind Chicago and well ahead of Austin. Enforcing quarantine in New York would be very difficult, not least because it's in the middle of a continuous urban agglomeration between DC and Boston with no hard boundaries.
- jcranmer 7y agoBan all traffic across the George Washington, Bayonne, Goethals, Outerbridge, Lincoln, and Holland tunnels, as well as cutting off the Hudson River rail tunnels. Next, set up checkpoints on all roads accessing or crossing I-287. Ban all ferries to or from Manhattan and Long Island. Shutdown LGA and JFK. You now have a quarantine zone separating New York City, Long Island, and some of the nearby cities in New York from the rest of the country. The Hudson River provides a pretty decent barrier to travel along the NEC. The Delaware, Potomac, and Susquehanna also provides some barriers, but enforcing quarantine barriers to inland travel is much more difficult (unless you're cutting off the Delmarva entirely).
- clairity 7y agoand look how well that worked out in the stand (by stephen king).
- bobthepanda 7y agoThis is pretty much a useless quarantine given what we know about COVID-19. Millions of people in Northern New Jersey and north of 287 travel into the center of New York every day, so there's no way you would catch everyone exposed in Manhattan that way given COVID-19's 14-day incubation (and some think it's even longer). The northern and western segments of the metropolitan area would be far harder to secure.