most of those have been NYC cases. Which skew the numbers.
farther more the deaths related to pneumonia’s often sit in those numbers.
The States decide how to react. However even then it’s not entirely clear cut. California is on a Lock down as is Massachusetts, Washington state and New York State. But in the case of NY most of the cases are in NYC not the more rural upstate.
California again it’s mostly centered in the cities LA county and the Bay Area has a hugely dense population almost like a mega city.
in Washington state it’s centered to in King county.
as such most of the rest just have a handful of cases. Lockdown orders impose huge penalties of economic hardships. They can make matters worse as if you can’t get food or basic functions you bring in worse issues.
The cure is worse than the disease.
California has had over a third of the unemployment claims thus far as nonessential business closed.
thats destructive.
The company I work for has recently responded by cutting a shift from my work place. My shift in fact as such I am burning vacation time to make up for it and using some of my savings. I am not happy about that. But that’s what a lock down does.
I have to state the obvious which is my perception is affected by my environment
(= the country under a partial lockdown that is enforced),
so I understand somebody who lives in a completely different environment
(= a country where no countermeasures are enforced)
may have a completely different perception,
and personally I wouldn't try to say who's right or wrong, because I don't know that (only God knows that);
now, after a much longer chunk I normally write, I say briefly this:
the US approach is 'business first' while in Central Europe it's 'preventing deaths first'
(and many people are scared -- in a minute I'll post about a survey of what people in Poland say they do during a partial lockdown),
and I pray both will work