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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Imagine thinking that a once-in-a-century health event is an actual argument against smart growth that sets up affordability, sustainability, and accessibility for generations to come.

Or what's even worse and sadly more likely, imagine knowing how ridiculous that is yet going right ahead and using a disaster that will likely kill hundreds of thousands if not millions of Americans to push your personal NIMBY agenda.[/quote]

Stick your head in the sand if you want, but [b]a lot more people in New York City are going to die precisely because it is so densely populated[/b]. I dont see what's so smart about that.

From the Times:

“Density is really an enemy in a situation like this,” said Dr. Steven Goodman, an epidemiologist at Stanford University. “With large population centers, where people are interacting with more people all the time, that’s where it’s going to spread the fastest.”

The challenge facing New York and other tightly cramped cities around the United States can be seen by comparing the country’s largest city to its second biggest, Los Angeles.

As of Monday, there were more than 13,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus in New York and about 500 in Los Angeles. New York reported 125 deaths; Los Angeles reported seven.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/nyregion/corona...dule=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage
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A lot more people in New York City than what/where? Death RATES are the issue here, PP. Not death numbers. Obviously places with lots of people are going to have more deaths, all things being equal. What do you think is going to happen in West Virginia, where the population is already older, poorer, and sicker, with less access to health care, during normal times?[/quote]

Pick up a newspaper. New York City is about to become the epicenter of the entire pandemic. People in Italy and China will say, "thank goodness I'm not in New York City."[/quote]

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