4 ms·
Not enough people realize that these waves are almost completely regionally isolated, with a bit of spillover everywhere. Wave 1: NY + NJ (some other northeast
by thrav 6y ago
Not enough people realize that these waves are almost completely regionally isolated, with a bit of spillover everywhere.
Wave 1: NY + NJ (some other northeast)
Wave 2: Florida + Texas + Arizona (most of south)
Wave 3: Midwest
You can even see this within California. Wave 1: Bay Area, Wave 2: Some LA, Wave 3: All SoCal
Each wave basically amounts of when that population gave up distancing, and once you’ve undergone your wave, you don’t really get it that bad again. (unless you have a small wave that misses much of the population, like LA)
Texas’ wave 3 is popping in different cities than wave 2 (Texas, like Cali, is just huge).
- ghaff 6y agoThere are a ton of narratives that lump regions together, impute a bunch of political and/or cultural factors, etc. and I suspect that, at the end of the day, we'll look back and a neutral examination will have trouble consistently mapping outcomes to controllable (or at least explainable) factors. What did Belgium do to piss off the COVID-19 gods?