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No. People were saying the same thing after 9/11 vis a vis terrorism. Didn't happen. Won't now.
Coronavirus impacted way more people.
9/11 shut down businesses, lead to martial law, or overwhelmed hospitals. Only the people in the airplanes or the WTC got killed. Coronavirus may kill millions in the US alone. Huge difference.
Irrelevant. We're talking about threat not real effect.
And CV-19 is fanning out. It's going to hit the whole country, just later. It's already starting. I'm watching Florida to see how it spreads in a more suburban setting. And with it's hordes of retirees, if it gets going there, it's going to have a big death toll.
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Coronavirus impacted way more people.
9/11 shut down businesses, lead to martial law, or overwhelmed hospitals. Only the people in the airplanes or the WTC got killed. Coronavirus may kill millions in the US alone. Huge difference.
I hate to tell you but at this point everyone at everyones job has or had the coronavirus.
I agree. But some people share tighter spaces with others. For example, my husband works in an open office, but everyone has their own desk and/or space still. We all share work stations, have no windows and barely any air circulation.
We work with many immunocompromised people so we need to be extra cautious.
I'm speculating that many of us in NYC area have already gotten infected by COVID19 back in December. The recent test results are not a shock but confirmation that we are getting either strain 2 or a large number of sick due to being indoors too much. I know I was sick for a week in December, not serious just a cough, headache, and mild fever and went away for good before X-mas. The cough did have a little extra pain to it but I don't know whether or not it is COVID19. If I can get a test and confirm that I have the antibodies it may confirm my speculation that the virus was circulation a lot earlier.
This changes everything. What I noticed is this. In the past twenty years, millions of college educated people move to cities to find work and many ended up in some great jobs, flourshing careers and etc. Now with the Coronavirus, college grads will think otherwise about moving to cities to find work. Even my employer right now is thinking about renting an office in White Plains NY and will move out of the city by next year, and only maintain a small shell skeleton office in NYC. And it looks like I may need to get a new job, unless I get a car.
Last I checked Westchester had a higher percentage of their population infected than NYC so not sure being in the suburbs would change much.
I'm speculating that many of us in NYC area have already gotten infected by COVID19 back in December. The recent test results are not a shock but confirmation that we are getting either strain 2 or a large number of sick due to being indoors too much. I know I was sick for a week in December, not serious just a cough, headache, and mild fever and went away for good before X-mas. The cough did have a little extra pain to it but I don't know whether or not it is COVID19. If I can get a test and confirm that I have the antibodies it may confirm my speculation that the virus was circulation a lot earlier.
It was definitely starting to go around in December but late Jan and February is really when it started blowing up. They had DIRECT flights straight from WUHAN CHINA to JFK QUEENS every single day from parient zero on 11/21 through 1/23. That's 60 straights days of an uninterrupted pipeline directly from the infected source and into NYC
I'm speculating that many of us in NYC area have already gotten infected by COVID19 back in December. The recent test results are not a shock but confirmation that we are getting either strain 2 or a large number of sick due to being indoors too much. I know I was sick for a week in December, not serious just a cough, headache, and mild fever and went away for good before X-mas. The cough did have a little extra pain to it but I don't know whether or not it is COVID19. If I can get a test and confirm that I have the antibodies it may confirm my speculation that the virus was circulation a lot earlier.
I think the death toll would have been much higher in Dec to Jan if that was true. What you're describing could just be flu or common cold symptoms, both viruses that were very widespread at the time.
Last I checked Westchester had a higher percentage of their population infected than NYC so not sure being in the suburbs would change much.
Basically everybody in Westchester/Fairfield/Bergin/Union/Monmouth/etc... work in NYC and bring back the charm to their families every night
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