Originally Posted by
WutFace
You might be right. The current hotspots states may never get to the level of carnage that the New England states got to. But none of us know how bad it's going to be for the southern states. If deaths track proportionally to the cases arc, then we've got at least 4 more weeks of 1000+ deaths per day. That will add a lot to the tally.
Even so, New England had the misfortune of going first and caught unprepared. Now there's talk that the Federal government team, led by Kushner,
slow-walked support because the White House could lay the blame of the virus at the feet of blue state governors.
From the relevant article:
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020...-into-thin-air
Negligence that led to thousands of deaths.
It's the same with reopening to force everyone back to work. And now again with the schools. What will it take for people to realize that those in power don't care about them. Expendable lives to keep the machines turning. That's it.
So Texas may never catch up to New York. But at least we're starting to figure out why.
Mesabah and GeeWiz beat me to it. Seriously, a Vanity Fair article?
But in fairness to the Northeast governors who - yes, did foul up badly - in every epidemic in recorded history - way back to Biblical times - the main driver has always been population density, so some of the horrible numbers is attributable to that alone, but the predeliction for nursing home residents was well established by the Kirkland WA cases way back in late Feb. For Cuomo to put out THAT directive nearly four weeks later was ludicrous, bordering on criminal. About 40% of NY and NJ deaths were due to nursing home acquired cases, and many of them were the direct result of putting known contagious patients into what for the corona was your classic target rich environment. And again in fairness, the median life expectancy in a nursing home before corona was only 2.2 years, ANNUAL death rates in nursing homes are about 35%, but clearly those orders hurried a number of those residents along by a bit.