No? Do you not understand how exponential growth works?
And for the record, we had this same discussion about exponential growth back in March. Note that when the following article was written, nobody – zero people – had died yet in New York, but within one month New York’s death rate would reach its peak – the peak you don’t think Florida needs to worry about – and within two months nearly 30,000 people would die in New York.
When a danger is growing exponentially, everything looks fine until it doesn’t
You know, it’s one thing to be having these kinds of discussions back in March, when only a handful of people had died in the U.S. I can’t believe we’re still having this discussion after 150,000 people have died here in the United States.
We went through hell here in the northeast over the last four months. It’s the reason why most of us are still taking the virus very seriously and why many of us are still locked down.
Yet many people in Florida, Texas and throughout the south and west still seem convinced that the virus won’t affect them, and refuse to take simple public health measures, like mask-wearing and social distancing.
What’s maddening about this is the simple fact that if we had all locked down effectively and simultaneously throughout the nation, we could have all but eliminated the virus in the U.S., just like in Europe, and not only restarted our economy but also saved a lot of lives. Instead, we keep doing these sequential half-measures as the virus flares up in different parts of the country, so the virus will keep hopscotching around the country indefinitely.