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New York came distressingly close to capacity, but indeed didn't hit a saturation point like Madrid or Milan. But that's, quite frankly, just dumb luck. At th
by newacct583 6y ago
New York came distressingly close to capacity, but indeed didn't hit a saturation point like Madrid or Milan.
But that's, quite frankly, just dumb luck. At the rate of growth we were seeing in the early epidemic, their safety margin comes out to something like two days. The lockdown almost missed the target.
Quite frankly, a very large number of New Yorkers probably owe their lives to the other early movers in the US that enabled the NYC lockdown: Washington State was a big one. Also when the history is written, the NBA cancelling its season is probably going to be one of the biggest heroes.
- remote_phone 6y agoI 100% agree with you. Also don’t forget the mayor of SF. I don’t like her politics but objectively she had the courage to make a very hard choice and locked down the SF Bay Area much sooner than anywhere else. She saved thousands of lives right here.
- babesh 6y agoThe lockdown order wasn’t her doing. It was supposed to have been orchestrated by Santa Clara county’s health director , Sara Cody. Also, SF has no power over the other counties. It was a joint health order. It’s remarkable the amount of just plain wrong information that people believe in.
- riffraff 6y agoMilan didn't hit saturation either, I believe, you may be thinking of Bergamo. But the saturation was not reached because of lockdown, clearing hospital beds from electives, adding more beds, recruiting new sanitary personnel from all over the country. If all of italy had kept going "business as usual" we'd likely count deaths at a 30x rate.