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In this context the epicenter is where something is most intense, not where it starts. New York City and Seattle peaked roughly around the same but NYC was seei
by akiselev 6y ago
In this context the epicenter is where something is most intense, not where it starts. New York City and Seattle peaked roughly around the same but NYC was seeing ~10,000 new cases a day at one point whereas King County was seeing 600 a day at most. Maybe if you normalize for population size and density it's comparable but epicenter is colloquialism that usually implies absolute numbers.
- otoburb 6y agoThe context is important because most people have heard the word "epicenter" from earthquake stories, where the epicenter is usually singular and never migrates, thus strongly correlated in people's heads as the "start" of a major event.
- pdonis 6y ago> the epicenter The post I responded to specifically said initial epicenter. The post claimed that it was "disingenuous" to include NYC in statistics because, since they were the "initial epicenter", they basically didn't have any warning. Since NYC was not the "initial epicenter", this claim is false; they did have warning and it is perfectly fair to include them in statistics.