Looks Like NYC Was the Gateway for Covid-19 to Infect The Nation.

[90sSitcom]

Originally Posted by SeventhFloor

We're the gateway to the planet

Everybody comes here

City speaks over 100 languages

Meh

I agree

Originally Posted by Javawood

I'm surprised that anybody would have thought it wasn't going to get bad in NYC. Cities will get hit harder from contagion, and NYC in particular is basically a giant petri dish. If it's not Covid, it's something else. I get sick less in NYC than I did in Chicago though, but I digress.

Exactly, in the burbs you just don't come in contact with 1000's of people everyday.

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Originally Posted by 90sSitcom

.........Exactly, in the burbs you just don't come in contact with 1000's of people everyday.

I agree. And also, in the burbs, you generally have single family homes, not apartment buildings, with anywhere from 20 to 200 feet in between them.

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Originally Posted by Cida

Yay! As always, NYC leads the way.

But, seriously, why should this surprise you? Of course we're a travel hub. And not only that, we're more densely populated than many cities, so we spread among each other.

Your wokeness is killing me Cida. But yes you are correct.