I'd love to agree with this article, but I don't think it holds much water. * Washington schools closed very late. My friends' schools in Indianapolis had alr

I'd love to agree with this article, but I don't think it holds much water. * Washington schools closed very late. My friends' schools in Indianapolis had already been closed a week. * Barely any of the volunteer WFH was taken, at least among my group at Microsoft. Maybe 10% participation. * Volunteer child removal from school was spotty, maybe 25%, not enough to make a huge difference. While I like most of how our governor has managed it, and I like science, I have a hard time saying that it's more than marginally responsible for the NYC - SEA disparity. In fact as the article alludes, many of the decisions were driven by factors beyond the need to minimize covid deaths, like providing school lunches for families who couldn't afford them. So coming to the conclusion that these decisions are responsible for the disparity is disingenuous. All the other points in the article, including luck, carry a lot more weight. NYC is the city that never sleeps. SEA is the city where if one person is Sleepless then they make a bestselling movie about it.... The other things really that might make a difference, that few have mentioned is that * The first hit of the virus was ripping through a life care center. That put people naturally on edge. * Knicks and Nets both had long homestands during the beginning of the outbreak, whereas let's just say the Sonics have been on a rather long road trip.