Cool! I like numbers, too. How about this: NYC = 8.8 million people [0], U.S. death rate is currently 8.997 per 1000 [1], which works out to 216 people dying pe

Cool! I like numbers, too. How about this: NYC = 8.8 million people [0], U.S. death rate is currently 8.997 per 1000 [1], which works out to 216 people dying per day in NYC. The current 4 week average for covid deaths in NYC is 5 per day [2]. Hospitalizations are increasing, the 28 day average of 70 patients has increased to 88 in the last 7 days. 5 out of 200+ deaths per day and around 100 beds taken by covid patients doesn't sound like a crisis or justification for this executive order. Maybe I'm missing something? I also found it interesting that the per-capita deaths this year and last don't show an increase over the prior/predicted line on the graph. I assume this is because the baby boomer generation is getting older. None of this runs counter to the numbers you presented, but does seem to show that this pandemic is not killing people or putting them in the hospital at a rate anywhere close to what it was doing last year. It's predicted that this will continue to affect people less as it becomes endemic, like the other coronaviruses that circulate and don't bother anyone much [3]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyc [1] https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/death-rate https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/deat... [2] https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data.page https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data.page [3] https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/08/how-we-live-coronavirus-forever/619783/ https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/08/how-we-l...