It's time to shut down South Dakota's subway system
"one of the nation's largest coronavirus hot spots" - Washington Post fact checker
SoDak NYC
Population 880k 8.6mm
CV-19 cases 850 105k
per 100k 95 1300
deaths 6 7000
pop/sq mi 12 25k
subway
closures 0 0
Population 880k 8.6mm
CV-19 cases 850 105k
per 100k 95 1300
deaths 6 7000
pop/sq mi 12 25k
subway
closures 0 0
lest anyone get the wrong idea, I do not gloat about anyone having CV19. I have friends & family in NYC, as well as rural Iowa, and I want all of them to be safe and healthy and encourage all of them to 10-foot isolate from other people. It's just easier to do so in rural Iowa.
And I don't criticize anyone who'd rather live in a high density urban location than in a small town. There are lots of advantages to it, but as we've seen recently it has a downside, epidemiologically speaking.
Even in rural states, the CV19 cases are largely concentrated in their largest cities; for example the vast majority (650/850) cases in South Dakota are in Minnehaha County (Sioux Falls, population 180k).
What gets me tho, is the new genre of scoldy NY/Washington newspaper bits shaming rural state governors for not putting their entire states into lockdown. As if this is a major source of CV19 spread, and as if rural people are too stupid to isolate without official instructions.
