9/11 killed 2,977 people, mostly in NYC. COVID has (at the time of this writing, 2020-04-19 5:40AM PDT) killed 13,157 people in NYC alone. If you scroll through

9/11 killed 2,977 people, mostly in NYC. COVID has (at the time of this writing, 2020-04-19 5:40AM PDT) killed 13,157 people in NYC alone. If you scroll through the list of counties in the US sorted by COVID death toll, the majority of the places at the top of the list are within spitting distance of NYC. Of the top ten, two of them are places I don't associate with NYC. (Detroit and Chicago) (to be fair, one of the top ten is "Unassociated New York" which may include all sorts of stuff in upstate) These 8 areas total to 18,742 deaths, which is 48% of the total number of deaths in the United States, 11% of the total deaths in the world. It's nothing to do with the media. It's the pile of dead bodies. https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6 https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594... Edit: There are 13,157 deaths, and 135,527 cases, which is about 10%. Los Angeles county has 577 deaths and 12,051 cases, which is less than half the fatality rate. Suffice to say it's overwhelmed the healthcare system there.