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I just watched Murphy, the gov of NJ on a live youtube update. He says construction is an essential industry, and therefore workers keeps plugging away.
What are Cuomo's rules on that? Is construction still going in NYC?
Shared responsibility and concern is something this country has been lacking.
Indeed. But it is something people have been learning these days by force.
I think people deluded themselves into thinking only bad things happen to bad people. Quite clearly that’s not the case. A lot of good people are now facing economic ruin.
Staten Island and Queens may have a lower density but neither county is exactly rural. Staten Island and Queens residents may not live as density as people in Manhattan but they ride into Manhattan on a crowded ferry and take the subway. I agree about the Bronx it must be a rising number soon.
Semi-suburban mostly. But due to the lower average number of cases per square mile you have much less of a chance of coming into casual contact with an infected person in Queens or S.I.
In nearly all of S.I. and a lot of Queens 1 and 2-family homes dominate. The big apartment complexes in the other boroughs make it nearly impossible not to be in close proximity on the elevator, in the lobby, etc. Density is bad for your health it now seems. The old Italians and Jews figured this out when they started to leave the tenements of Manhattan for the outer boroughs. Not that this exodus accelerated after the 1918 flu outbreak.
Either testing in the Bronx is going slowly or the hospitals and other test locations up there are not reporting truthfully or correctly. This is not scientific but the Bronx population is roughly 55.45% of Brooklyn's population. Brooklyn has 1750 cases so the Bronx should have roughly 970 cases.
I just watched Murphy, the gov of NJ on a live youtube update. He says construction is an essential industry, and therefore workers keeps plugging away.
What are Cuomo's rules on that? Is construction still going in NYC?
Yes, it can.
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I just got back from my morning walk. I dont think people care or want to understand social distancing.
I had the opposite experience just now. For the most part, people are mostly just walking alone or in twos. (Unless there are multiple children involved.) People are giving each other space and being very courteous. The only place there tends to be crowding is in the food stores.
It was a beautiful day. Got in my 10K steps. Got a few things from the grocery store. People were friendly. Someone was playing the guitar and singing outside on their porch, which made everyone smile who walked by---something to break the monotony.
I cannot WAIT until I have my own backyard and front porch.
I find the data reported incomplete. They report the number of cases and deaths yet fail to report: recovered cases; number of persons hospitalized; number of mild cases; number of severe cases. So IMO their statistical data is incomplete and of little use.
The media is perpetuating fear but it's not bad to cause alarm because if not people would just ignore the calls to stay inside.
As long as you don't see people lining up outside of hospitals the number of people infected is not that important. Because over 80% of people usually recover at home in isolation and in one week they start getting better just like a regular cold.
Those 10% that do bad may need hospital visit and another 10% will need hospital stay and 1/2 of those may not make it.
The media is perpetuating fear but it's not bad to cause alarm because if not people would just ignore the calls to stay inside.
As long as you don't see people lining up outside of hospitals the number of people infected is not that important. Because over 80% of people usually recover at home in isolation and in one week they start getting better just like a regular cold.
Those 10% that do bad may need hospital visit and another 10% will need hospital stay and 1/2 of those may not make it.
Over 800 people died in Italy in one day. Those are very real numbers. Are you going to be so dismissive if a friend or family member dies?
The problem is the sheer numbers of people have to be hospitalized means as hospitals run out of space, sick people with or without the virus may not get the medical card they need and they will die.
Over 800 people died in Italy in one day. Those are very real numbers. Are you going to be so dismissive if a friend or family member dies?
The problem is the sheer numbers of people have to be hospitalized means as hospitals run out of space, sick people with or without the virus may not get the medical card they need and they will die.
NYC is not even a week away from Italy or Spain.
You can use simple exponential math and see what the rates will be. Nyc next week will have 5 digit infection numbers with a hundred or more dead. Also nyc is and NYS is not reporting recovered numbers.
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