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> Nobody cared what the body count was until the body count turned into a house seat. How did the body count turn into a house seat exactly? There are dozens
by danans 6y ago
> Nobody cared what the body count was until the body count turned into a house seat.
How did the body count turn into a house seat exactly? There are dozens of ways that New York's population count could have gone 89 in either direction and changed the house seat allocation. At those small margins, it's basically a coin toss.
- throwaway0a5e 6y agoTrue, but had a large fraction of those needless deaths not happened that would have easily given them the boost they needed to keep the seat.
- danans 6y agoThe nursing home deaths are no more or less related to the house seat than any other small scale demographic event that happened last year. The deaths are arguably far less consequential than the effect of people leaving the state to move away from the early impact of the pandemic and into remote work scenarios.