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mucifer

(23,550 posts) Sun Mar 22, 2020, 04:09 PM Mar 2020

In the past 24 hours the deaths in New York went from 60 to 114

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

It almost doubled.

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In the past 24 hours the deaths in New York went from 60 to 114 (Original Post) mucifer Mar 2020 OP

Geometric progression. It's brutal. Girard442 Mar 2020 #1

That's a doubling time of one day 😳 VMA131Marine Mar 2020 #4

Probably the data is too choppy to make such a precise prediction -- I hope. Girard442 Mar 2020 #5

NYC is in for an extremely rough ride. Amishman Mar 2020 #2

We need to learn from this and stop cramming people into one area. jimfields33 Mar 2020 #3

Girard442

(6,075 posts)

1. Geometric progression. It's brutal.

Reply to mucifer (Original post)

Sun Mar 22, 2020, 04:10 PM

Mar 2020

VMA131Marine

(4,140 posts)

4. That's a doubling time of one day 😳

Reply to Girard442 (Reply #1)

Sun Mar 22, 2020, 04:50 PM

Mar 2020

That’s apocalyptic, there is no other way to say it. Hopefully it’s an aberration, because otherwise we’re looking at 1,000 deaths per day by Thursday.

Girard442

(6,075 posts)

5. Probably the data is too choppy to make such a precise prediction -- I hope.

Reply to VMA131Marine (Reply #4)

Sun Mar 22, 2020, 04:53 PM

Mar 2020

Amishman

(5,557 posts)

2. NYC is in for an extremely rough ride.

Reply to mucifer (Original post)

Sun Mar 22, 2020, 04:15 PM

Mar 2020

High population density, mass transit dependence, and a fiercely individualistic culture is a bad recipe for this bug.

jimfields33

(15,823 posts)

3. We need to learn from this and stop cramming people into one area.

Reply to Amishman (Reply #2)

Sun Mar 22, 2020, 04:18 PM

Mar 2020

There’s no reason to have 8 million people on one sliver of land when the state is huge. I’d start with moving the stock market to the northern part of New York State. With climate change coming, this could be kick in the pants needed to start changing the status quo and paradigm.

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