The chart I’ve been posting shows this really well.
In an American sense, New York was one of the first to take this seriously. They shut down just after California did (on the same day).
The problem is they had thousands of more cases already at that point.
And as has been posted several times, they are just primed for this because of their density, travel and the way NY’ers live.
I’m so thankful for our Governor in California because he shut down before most people thought necessary. And he was the first to do it. That takes guts. Other states followed (including NY). It’s going to get worse here and there will be some really hard hit areas but we were on basically the same timeline as NY and his quick actions bought some time.
This is why
I’m so nervous about Florida and Louisiana in particular. They have been slow to shut down and they have areas with high density and lots of travel. Florida especially. And a lot of New Yorkers left NY as it was being shut down to head to Florida for a while.
It also scares me watching some of these pundits on Fox News talk about how this is only a blue state problem. That is just plain stupid. This will hit big states first. But it will make it to the small states. Guaranteed. It doesn’t care who you vote for.
An update to the chart:
https://twitter.com/nathan510edge/st...027386368?s=21