{"id":2419,"date":"2020-03-27T11:48:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T11:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2419"},"modified":"2020-03-27T11:48:41","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T11:48:41","slug":"we-are-your-future-will-all-of-america-become-like-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2419","title":{"rendered":"We are your future\u2019: Will all of America become like New York?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;New York is both the country\u2019s most populous city and its most densely populated. Vinetz said both the city\u2019s high density and the fact that it is densely populated across a large region could be exacerbating factors. Vinetz also cited the city\u2019s status as a hub for global travel as a factor that could be contributing to the outbreak there.&#8221;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;there are too many unknowns to draw firm conclusions at this point, and residents of the rest of the country should not assume they will avoid New York City\u2019s fate&#8221;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8221; interviews with New York residents and officials suggested that both the New York lifestyle \u2013 replete with shoulder-to-shoulder public transportation, frequent dining out because of the limits of apartment living, and reliance on crowded city parks for daily recreation \u2013 as well as a certain stubbornness in curbing it may have contributed to New York\u2019s high infection rate.&#8221;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;\u201cHong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo also have density and nowhere near the kinds of outbreaks we have,\u201d Hendrix said. \u201cDensity also requires good governance coupled with reinforced strong social norms to counter the spread of contagious disease. What you\u2019re seeing today is the fruit of a slow government response to a crisis.\u201d<br>&nbsp;While Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio have been ahead of the federal government in issuing calls for social distancing, an early spate of mixed messaging from elected officials may have led some New Yorkers \u2014 especially those who perceive themselves as young and healthy \u2014 to take unnecessary risks.&#8221;&nbsp;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;Less than three weeks ago \u2013 March 5 \u2013 de Blasio took a subway ride to show his confidence in the safety of the city\u2019s transportation system and his administration told the city\u2019s 4.3 million straphangers that they were&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/subscriber.politicopro.com\/article\/2020\/03\/02\/city-to-implement-early-detection-protocol-with-three-hospitals-1264755\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">safe riding in jam-packed subway cars<\/a>&nbsp;as long as no one coughed or sneezed directly on them.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;Cuomo claims that the high rate of cases is correlated to testing at \u201cthe highest per capita level in the United States.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/03\/25\/new-york-coronavirus-147262\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/03\/25\/new-york-coronavirus-147262<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;New York is both the country\u2019s most populous city and its most densely populated. Vinetz said both the city\u2019s high density and the fact that it is densely populated across a large region could be exacerbating factors. Vinetz also cited the city\u2019s status as a hub for global travel as a factor that could be contributing to the outbreak there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;there are too many unknowns to draw firm conclusions at this point, and residents of the rest of the country should not assume they will avoid New York City\u2019s fate&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; interviews with New York residents and officials suggested that both the New York lifestyle \u2013 replete with shoulder-to-shoulder public transportation, frequent dining out because of the limits of apartment living, and reliance on crowded city parks for daily recreation \u2013 as well as a certain stubbornness in curbing it may have contributed to New York\u2019s high infection rate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;\u201cHong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo also have density and nowhere near the kinds of outbreaks we have,\u201d Hendrix said. \u201cDensity also requires good governance coupled with reinforced strong social norms to counter the spread of contagious disease. What you\u2019re seeing today is the fruit of a slow government response to a crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> While Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio have been ahead of the federal government in issuing calls for social distancing, an early spate of mixed messaging from elected officials may have led some New Yorkers \u2014 especially those who perceive themselves as young and healthy \u2014 to take unnecessary risks.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Less than three weeks ago \u2013 March 5 \u2013 de Blasio took a subway ride to show his confidence in the safety of the city\u2019s transportation system and his administration told the city\u2019s 4.3 million straphangers that they were safe riding in jam-packed subway cars as long as no one coughed or sneezed directly on them.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cuomo claims that the high rate of cases is correlated to testing at \u201cthe highest per capita level in the United States.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[409,483,600],"class_list":["post-2419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-new-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2420,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419\/revisions\/2420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}