Any speculations why New York was clobbered..

[Missourian]

...while Los Angeles has emerged nearly unscathed?

Was it just timing? New York drew the short straw and was unlucky enough to be first?

Warmer weather or more humid climate in LA?

Serious question...anyone have a theory?

 

[MarathonMike]

...while Los Angeles has emerged nearly unscathed?

Was is just timing New York just drew the short straw and was unlucky enough to be first?

Warmer weather or more humid climate in LA?

Serious question...anyone have a theory?

See my 9/11 theory I posted in General Discussion, I got some positive feedback.

 

[gulfman]

Cuomo's incompetence

 

[Bruce_T_Laney]

...while Los Angeles has emerged nearly unscathed?

Was it just timing? New York drew the short straw and was unlucky enough to be first?

Warmer weather or more humid climate in LA?

Serious question...anyone have a theory?

Truthfully the weather seem more likely.

 

[Tijn Von Ingersleben]

It's all about cause of death.

Let's just say...deaths from heart disease...are way down since Covid showed up.

 

[Bruce_T_Laney]

Cuomo's incompetence

More like de Blasio instead. When you a asshole Mayor that said the shot he said you do not wonder why New York got hit harder than the rest...

 

[linux07]

Subways

 

[Dekster]

...while Los Angeles has emerged nearly unscathed?

Was it just timing? New York drew the short straw and was unlucky enough to be first?

Warmer weather or more humid climate in LA?

Serious question...anyone have a theory?

First travel ban was china and those hit the west coast. europe didn't come until later so a ton of people returned from europe to New York already exposed.

 

[JGalt]

Subways

Winner!

Mass transit and public transportation: subways, trains, buses, taxis, Uber drivers, etc. The MIT just did a study.

http://web.mit.edu/jeffrey/harris/HarrisJE_WP2_COVID19_NYC_13-Apr-2020.pdf

 

[bluzman61]

...while Los Angeles has emerged nearly unscathed?

Was it just timing? New York drew the short straw and was unlucky enough to be first?

Warmer weather or more humid climate in LA?

Serious question...anyone have a theory?

Um, because they let practically ANYONE into their state? They have LOTS of illegal aliens residing in their ONCE beautiful state, ESPECIALLY New York City, because they've been so lax about keeping out the savages and the riffraff. New York is a DEMOCRATICALLY run state, which would account for the state basically turning into one giant sh*thole. ICE isn't acknowledged in most of the state, their asshat governor AND New York City's asshat mayor both are on record saying they want to abolish ICE completely. So THERE'S your problem.

 

[Markle]

I believe it is a combination of factors. We "knew" the virus had started in Wuhan China but the Chinese, it is now believed, did not disclose when it had really started. To this date, I don't believe we know as much as we should have the instant it was known that it was loose in the environment. We cut flights from Wuhan China but we didn't know that it had started earlier and was already in Europe. With two weeks being the time you are infected but can spread the virus without symptoms, flights were still pouring into New York from all over Europe.

Bill de Blasio also refused to shut down New York sooner. Not being shut down sooner and with so many New Yorkers using public transportation, subways, buses, taxies and whatever it had two weeks to brew in those various "Petri dishes".

 

[Polishprince]

The people of New York City are pretty belligerent. When President Trump made his recommendation that Americans wash their hands after using the can, most NY'ers said "F- Trump, I'll do as I please"and they refused.

Further, in California, a lot more people just shit on the sidewalks. This kind of habit encourages pathogens like E Coli, Cholera, Typhus, etc. to grow and multiply. A new pathogen like Coronavirus really doesn't stand a chance among the well established pathogens in the area, and really can't take hold.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Californians like to drive their own cars. We also like backyards.

 

[Polishprince]

Californians like to drive their own cars. We also like backyards.

Sure, California is big on the traditional "Cement ponds" New York City has jammed packed subways and train stations, jammed packed sidewalks, not much "social distancing".

 

[Muhammed]

This is a biological warfare attack. NYC was targeted along with other major cities in NATO that are high value targets.

 

[petro]

Found what I heard last week.
That two strains came to America. One from Europe that hit the East coast and the other from China that hit the West coast. Most of American cases are from Europe. According to link a total of 3 strains genomes have been identified.

America was hit with COVID-19 from two continents, studies suggest

Most US coronavirus cases, especially those in New York are people infected with a strain that came from Europe, not China, but a second strain came to Washington from China, studies suggest.

www.google.com

Edit for another link tracking 8 strains of
Sars-Cov- 2 that cause Covid 19.

8 strains of the coronavirus are circling the globe. Here's what clues they're giving scientists.

Scientists sequenced the genomes of eight coronavirus strains circling the globe providing hints about the effectiveness of efforts to halt the virus.

www.google.com

 

[flacaltenn]

...while Los Angeles has emerged nearly unscathed?

Was it just timing? New York drew the short straw and was unlucky enough to be first?

Warmer weather or more humid climate in LA?

Serious question...anyone have a theory?

Partly it's the diff between sitting alone in your car for an hour stuck in LA traffic vs NY subways, taxis, buses, ferries.. And NYC is 1/2 the size and twice the population...

But MOSTLY -- it's that mental midget of a mayor in the Big Apple that probably will get recalled who around March 12th was TELLING everyone to "go out and enjoy NY"....

And Cali is a strange case.. A lot of speculation (even in the big newspapers out there) that Cali has LOWER statistics because COVID was THERE in December/January and rolled thru and got "confused" with the end of the "normal flu season"... Could BE there were a couple hundred thousand cases in Cali before MOST folks KNEW of COVID 19... See for instance ---

New signs suggest coronavirus was in California far earlier than anyone knew

Coronavirus might have been in California as early as December. The timing had dire consequences

www.latimes.com

 

[Supposn]

...while Los Angeles has emerged nearly unscathed?

Was it just timing? New York drew the short straw and was unlucky enough to be first?
Warmer weather or more humid climate in LA?

Serious question...anyone have a theory?

Missourian, I suppose the North-East Coast is the most densely populated region of our nation. Although there’s the vast less populated Adirondack forests in NY state, I suppose NY State and NY City are among, (if not the) most densely populated states, and cities in the nation.

NY city’s subway is among, (if not the) busiest subway systems in the world. Many of NY Cities subway stations are in neighborhoods of the nation’s greatest volume of foot traffic per square foot of sidewalk during both rush hours and per day.

I’ve been told when people are in Los Angeles, many of them walk no further than the distances from their cars to a building nearby.

I suppose NY’s Kennedy Airport is the highest passenger volume international airport in the nation.

Respectfully, Supposn

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

High population density?

 

[Natural Citizen]

...while Los Angeles has emerged nearly unscathed?

Was it just timing? New York drew the short straw and was unlucky enough to be first?

Warmer weather or more humid climate in LA?

Serious question...anyone have a theory?

They've been talking about a medical Patriot Act lately.

And the economy was already gonna crash anyway. They peddled the economic distortion as long as they could. Those figures were just as cooked as the coronavirus numbers.

The singing from the windows and publicly displayed first responder salutes to medical staff have been a nice touch if you're shooting for a good public display of unity photo-op.

So, that's all I have to say about that.