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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
Covid has not been savaging Italy. Last I looked there were fewer than 250 cases for all of Calabria as an example. I think it hit hard in the North but not so bad elsewhere. Rerun your numbers focusing only on the Province where Milan is.
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Good point. This raises another argument. Different areas of the country are able to dip their toe into resuming activities better than others.
NYC is screwed for a long time because it is densely populated. But CA and FL are not. (FL, despite widespread rejection of social distancing, only has 1400 deaths.*) My state in the burbs is not. Actually, even Philly has done pretty well.
Those of us who can wade back into normalcy, carefully, while testing, should be allowed to do so. And all of the money that is being sprayed around the entire country should instead be focused on the people who really need it in densely populated areas.
Our nonemergency healthcare service revenue stream is not abating. People still want the services, including the most elective of them. They keep calling and asking when they can get them. And they inform my suspicion that, while shit's not going to be normal for a long time, a very large portion of society who have not seen carnage like NYC are ready to lean into resuming their lives.
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* This may confirm the heat impact on Covid, but it's also because FL is a spread out state. If you look at who dies most frequently from this disease, aside from the old generally, it's people with compromised health living in densely populated areas.
