There is a very clear division between people in my friend group who know someone who has died of Covid, and people who don't. The majority of the people from t

There is a very clear division between people in my friend group who know someone who has died of Covid, and people who don't. The majority of the people from the former group live in NY, the majority of the people in the latter group don't. NYC, due to its population density, certainly has a higher potential for pandemic death than anywhere else in the US, but there's good reason to believe that NY didn't reach anywhere near that potential, due to the interventions taken by the community which prevented that from happening. We see much worse infection and death rates in some areas of the world with less dense population, due to different responses. So there's no reason to believe that the rest of the US can't get just as bad as NYC, and worse. And given the almost complete lack of response in some parts of the US, I think we'll get to see what that looks like; if not in the next few weeks, then in the fall when cold weather hits.