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But New York has over 1400 COVID deaths per million [1]. New Jersey, Connecticut, and Massachussets are all more than double of Sweden's deaths per million, an
by gwd 6y ago
But New York has over 1400 COVID deaths per million [1]. New Jersey, Connecticut, and Massachussets are all more than double of Sweden's deaths per million, and still climbing steadily. The US only looks good next to Sweden because there are big areas of the country that are way more spread out.
[1] https://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=states-normalized&highlight=New%20York&show=all&trendline=default&y=fixed&scale=linear&data=deaths#states-normalized https://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=states...
- leetcrew 6y agofair point, but doesn't this imply that the spread out areas don't need such severe lockdowns?
- gwd 6y agoI think each area can and should take the local situation into account. My understanding (as an American living in the UK) was that they are doing so, to a large extent. From what I can tell from friends and relatives on FB, restrictions in Michigan came on hard and strong after being probably one of the worst hit early on; restrictions in Ohio started earlier and never got as tough. The anti-lockdown side of my FB feed seems to think that South Dakota never had much of a lockdown to speak of at all. I don't claim to know better than local governments what the best decision is -- we're all just making this up as we go along, and I'm glad I don't personally have to make the decision between massive death or economic damage for millions of people.