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> New York sits at the bottom of the per-capita Covid charts in the US. If New York were counted as its own country, it would have the highest per-capita COVID
by chimeracoder 6y ago
> New York sits at the bottom of the per-capita Covid charts in the US.
If New York were counted as its own country, it would have the highest per-capita COVID-19 death toll in the entire world. And yes, that's because Cuomo and DeBlasio refused to listen to their own public health departments and refused to learn the lessons of other countries that had been hit earlier[0].
> Were mistakes made at the beginning? Perhaps. Hindsight is always 20/20. However, data was scarce.
There was copious data - both from other countries and from other US cities - that indicated that New York needed to issue a shelter-in-place order at least a week before Cuomo agreed to. Even San Francisco had already shut down before Cuomo agreed to shut down NYC[1], despite San Francisco having fewer per-capita cases at the time. And even then, Cuomo waffled on whether to shut down the public schools.
There's plenty of evidence that Cuomo and DeBlasio ignored the scientific evidence that they had at the time, so you can't chalk up the high death toll to a lack of data.
> And shutting down a school district like New York's takes a lot of time.
It doesn't. Once Cuomo finally agreed to do it, it happened immediately. Where do you get the idea that it "takes time"?
[0] https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2020/05/21/cuomo-de-blasio-blame-ignorance-but-not-themselves-in-wake-of-damning-report-1285383 https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2020/0...
[1] https://www.propublica.org/article/two-coasts-one-virus-how-new-york-suffered-nearly-10-times-the-number-of-deaths-as-california https://www.propublica.org/article/two-coasts-one-virus-how-...
- bsder 6y agoYou are simply wrong according to data. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ Belgium, Spain, Peru, Ital, Sweden, and Chile are all above the US --so certainly above New York. France, Brazil, the Netherlands and Ireland come up right behind in the same class as New York. If you persist spreading misinformation, I will start flagging you.
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- chimeracoder 6y ago> You are simply wrong according to data. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ > > Belgium, Spain, Peru, Ital, Sweden, and Chile are all above the US --so certainly above New York. France, Brazil, the Netherlands and Ireland come up right behind in the same class as New York. > > If you persist spreading misinformation, I will start flagging you. I said: > If New York were counted as its own country, it would have the highest per-capita COVID-19 death toll in the entire world. According to the source you cite (worldometers), the per-capita death toll for Belgium is 849 per 1M. That's the second-highest in the entire world, after San Marino (1,238). By contrast, according to the same site you linked[0], the per-capita death toll for New York is 1,686 per 1M. That's twice as high as Belgium, and higher even than San Marino. [0] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/new-york/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/new-york/
- tengbretson 6y agoCareful pal, bsder said they were gonna talk to the manager if you keep this up.