According to The New York Times coronavirus report, as of Sunday, April 19, 2:48 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, there were 35,676 COVID-19 deaths in the United States. Of those deaths, 18,690 were in the New York metropolitan area.
(The New York metropolitan area is generally regarded as consisting of the five boroughs of New York City, the five New York State counties surrounding New York City -- Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester, Rockland and Orange -- and the populous parts of New Jersey and Connecticut.)
That means that more than half (52%) of all deaths in America have occurred in the New York metropolitan area.
I think this is more than just a casual thought here. The real question is would anyone on the east or west coast even care if some virus was working it's way through the red flyover states with little chance of it making an impact on the major population centers on either coast?
Would the "world revolves around me" coastal elitists really lock themselves in their own homes, kill off the coastal economies, if they were seeing six or seven deaths per million (as many of these states are seeing) rather than the 900 plus that the New York City area is seeing?
Would they, as some form of national unity watch businesses go under and people lose their jobs because of a virus that was not impacting them personally? Certainly they would see their own lot in the world as too important to shut down?
As pointed out here (and many other places) if you remove New York City from the rest of the country, then the greater non-New York United States doesn't even break the top 10 in terms of countries affected by Covid-19.
But as this article points out. Much of our media and much of our government elitists believe that the country (and the world) revolves around New York and other population centers. Like in the movie "Coming to America" when Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall are trying to figure out where to go. "The land is so big. The choices so infinite. Where shall we go, Los Angeles or New York"?
12 comments:
those of us on the right saw this coming from a mile away:
ALBANY — Potentially thousands of workers who were laid off from small businesses due to the coronavirus pandemic are declining to return to work because the combined income they are receiving from federal stimulus benefits and New York's unemployment system is more than they made at their jobs.
The fallout also has hindered the ability of small business owners to meet the conditions attached to federal Payment Protection Plan loans, which may be forgiven if the money is used to maintain employee payrolls.
Business owners "have to spend that money on salaries, health care and rent or mortgage. So what’s happened is the employees ... are getting more money at home not working than they would be getting paid and returning to work, or paid and staying home," said Kevin Luibrand, an Albany attorney who learned about the situation from clients who are small business owners. "So there’s no incentive for employees to want to be returned to the payroll. As a result, the employers aren’t going to be able to spend down the PPP money."
In those instances, instead of having the loans forgiven small business owners may have to pay them back — with interest.
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Workers-opt-for-unemployment-as-benefits-exceed-15213550.php
Nope, IF this was hitting the Flyover States. The Press would barely cover it.
.CA Gov/NY. Govenors granted the wealthiest their maids to be Essential.
BILD EDITOR-IN-CHIEF RESPONDS TO THE CHINESE PRESIDENT
„You are endangering the world“
3. You, your government and your scientists had to know long ago that Corona is highly infectious, but you left the world in the dark about it. Your top experts didn't respond when Western researchers asked to know what was going on in Wuhan.
You were too proud and too nationalistic to tell the truth, which you felt was a national disgrace.
4. The "Washington Post" reports that your laboratories in Wuhan have been researching corona viruses in bats, butwithout maintaining the highest safety standards. Why are your toxic laboratories not as secure as your prisons for political prisoners?
Would you like to explain this to the grieving widows, daughters, sons, husbands, parents of Corona victims all over the world?
5. In your country, your people are whispering about you. Your power is crumbling. You have created an inscrutable, non-transparent China. Before Corona, China was known as a surveillance state. Now, China is known as a surveillance state that infected the world with a deadly disease.
That is your political legacy.
Your embassy tells me that I am not living up to the "traditional friendship of our peoples.” I suppose you consider it a great "friendship" when you now generously send masks around the world. This isn’t friendship, I would call it imperialism hidden behind a smile – a Trojan Horse.
You plan to strengthen China through a plague that you exported. You will not succeed. Corona will be your political end, sooner or later.
Yours sincerely
Julian Reichelt
Nope, IF this was hitting the Flyover States. The Press would barely cover it.
Not until they see store shelves empty of food. Because, you know, that is where the food is grown, harvest, and processed.
COVID-19 cases: (updated April 21 a.m.)
South Dakota: 1,685, 7 dead
Minnehaha County, SD 1,363
Wyoming: 317, 2 dead
North Dakota: 627, 13 dead
Montana: 433, 12 dead
Nebraska: 1,648, 34 dead
Colorado: 10,106, 448 dead
Minnesota: 2,470, 143 dead
Iowa: 3,175, 75 dead
Michigan 31,927, 2,466 dead
New York: 247,543 14,347 dead
Navajo Nation: 1042, 41 dead
United States:
Total cases: 780,476
Total deaths: 37,808
Worldwide confirmed, deaths:
Total cases: 2,442,000
Total deaths: 165,655
Italy: 181,228 24,114 dead
You know Roger we can look that up. Most of us have the website bookmarked.
FAKE NEWS NBC and CNN confirm from their sources Kim Jong Un is brain dead
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/367230/
Then they had to take it back.
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was not seriously ill, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency said citing a government official on Tuesday, contradicting a CNN report he was in “grave danger” after a surgery.
Rising serpent
@rising_serpent
There is only one way to tell if this is true (that he is braindead). If true, Kim Jong Un will soon be on late night TV showing off the contents of his two extra large Sub-Zero refrigerators.
Somewhat lengthy but EXCELLENT interview by Brit Hume and ex-NYT reporter Alex Berenson on the lockdown.
Highly recommend if you haven't read it yet.
We need to get on the right path.
Brit Hume’s interview with ex-NYT reporter Alex Berenson: Read the transcript
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/brit-humes-interview-with-ex-nyt-reporter-alex-berenson-read-the-transcript
People don’t appreciate being lectured and condescended to and bossed around. They especially don’t appreciate being urged to sacrifice by people who make no sacrifices themselves. And that’s a different sort of class divide: When rulers ask for sacrifices without making any, they’re displaying a distinct lack of, well, class.
Ultimately, this rising resentment is itself a failure of public health, and of public health administration. You can complain that people are irrational and resentful, that they don’t “believe in science,” or whatever. But people are what they are, and their response to epidemics is surprisingly predictable. If your messaging — and your behavior — inspires resentment that causes people to resist and ignore public health messages, then you have failed at your job, whatever the amount of scientific knowledge you bring to bear.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/04/21/behind-protests-two-americas-one-unemployed-and-one-gets-paychecks-column/5167453002/
I would also include some clueless media types among the "let them eat cake" class.
Roger has very limited Internet access time from his 500 Sq foot Nursing home cube.
Post a Comment