People usually bring up the population density and travel point to say why NY and NYC in particular is doing so bad but it is a lot to do with attitude of the l

People usually bring up the population density and travel point to say why NY and NYC in particular is doing so bad but it is a lot to do with attitude of the leaders. This[1] is a tweet from March 2 from the city's mayor. I know it hadn't gotten bad anywhere except China and Iran at this point. But Italy's case growth curve had a sharp uptick by this point with total cases reaching about 2k. Lockdown was unnecessary but encouraging people to go out in crowded places was just silly. [1] https://twitter.com/BilldeBlasio/status/1234648718714036229 https://twitter.com/BilldeBlasio/status/1234648718714036229