If Half the Country's Deaths Were in
Montana, Would New York Shut Down?
Creators Syndicate,
by
Dennis Prager
Original Article
Posted By: Garnet,
4/21/2020 11:33:23 AM
According to The New York Times coronavirus report, as of Sunday, April 19, 2:48 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, there were 35,676 COVID-19 deaths in the United States. Of those deaths, 18,690 were in the New York metropolitan area.
(The New York metropolitan area is generally regarded as consisting of the five boroughs of New York City, the five New York State counties surrounding New York City -- Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester, Rockland and Orange -- and the populous parts of New Jersey and Connecticut.)That means that more than half (52%) of all deaths in America have occurred in the New York metropolitan area.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Rather Read 4/21/2020 11:34:45 AM (No. 386564)
No. For the chattering classes there are a few Important States and Montana isn't one of them.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
udanja99 4/21/2020 11:43:42 AM (No. 386583)
Just reading the opening 3 paragraphs, my first reaction is - Great job, Cuomo and DeBlasio! And those two want to tell the rest of us how to live our lives. They should crawl away in shame never to be heard from again.
Otherwise, Prager is right on the mark, as usual.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 4/21/2020 11:44:21 AM (No. 386585)
NY C wouldn't have had as many deaths had Comrade DeBlasio and Godfather Cuomo been half as competent as our POTUS in their response. Oh well, more blood on their hands.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
planetgeo 4/21/2020 12:00:45 PM (No. 386599)
FTA: (Quoting Thomas Friedman of the NYT) "Every person will be playing Russian roulette every minute of every day: Do I get on this crowded bus to go to work or not? What if I get on the subway and the person next to me is not wearing gloves and a mask?"
Well, there you go. 90% of the rest of the country never gets on a bus, and 99% never gets on a subway, Mr. Friedman. Since you're so much smarter than the rest of us, maybe that will give you a clue about why your case rates and death rates are so much higher than the rest of the country's. And then again, maybe not.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Philipsonh 4/21/2020 12:03:06 PM (No. 386604)
How would any reader like to live in UpState NYS and need medical care ? We are in that situation. The politicians only care about the Covid-19 and are blinded to the rest of the ailments people have. I have a relative that had serious back surgery postponed 2 times because the hospital had to restrict all but emergency cases. I know one da*n thing. If Cuomo needed surgery HE WOULD GET IT. The rest of us 'eat cake' ( or ice cream ) as they say.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
bad-hair 4/21/2020 12:04:02 PM (No. 386605)
Silly article really. If half the deaths were in Montana they'd have to merge with North Dakota. Curious, what is population of Montana and pop of NYC ?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DVC 4/21/2020 12:05:43 PM (No. 386609)
I agree entirely with the article.
However, a close friend is on her second at home quarantine after being exposed at the hospital where she works. She emailed about a coworker in her 30s who is fighting for her life with hydroxychloroquine and convalescent plasma and seriously struggling. Another coworker, age 26 is sick, not yet extremely bad, and another exposed worker is quarantined like my friend. Stressful working conditions, for sure.
I like to imagine that I am strong and will beat it if I get it, but I do not want to test that theory if I can help it.
I'd like to go back to restaurants, but I'll probably stay careful for a while, even when things get more like normal.
So odd to have so many people have no symptoms, while other young people are being seriously ill or killed by it.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 4/21/2020 12:07:36 PM (No. 386612)
This is why we have the electoral college.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 4/21/2020 12:10:26 PM (No. 386615)
#4 makes an excellent point. Most of the rest of the country NEVER gets on a bus or subway. I think the last time I was in an elevator was in the office building where my doc's office is last year for my annual checkup. Not in an elevator since....and not likely to get into any elevators around here for a long time. I often take the stairs for exercise, that is going to be my default for a long time now.
Not living like sardines is a big safety feature. I just never liked that whole sardine life in the cities, always happy to be away from it.
My car never has any sick strangers in it. NEVER.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Smart11344 4/21/2020 12:51:33 PM (No. 386657)
Back in the early 70's, I visited NYC and New Jersy twice. Never have I ever met some of the most arrogant jerks this country contains. I know generalizing doesn't play out well, but I have no plans to visit the east coast, ever again. I loved the iconis buidings that you have seen in many movies. But far too many of the citizenry in NYC should jump off the Brooklyn Bridge. II do have that water freezes over.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 4/21/2020 1:01:30 PM (No. 386671)
New York would just complain that Montana still has a whopping 3 electoral votes which gives them an ''unfair advantage'' in presidential elections.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
GO3 4/21/2020 1:23:52 PM (No. 386695)
Hey, Friedman. Are you in Afghanistan, Iraq, etc. getting shot at, rocketed and bombed? No? Then STFU and quit the hand wringing.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
skacmar 4/21/2020 1:46:20 PM (No. 386724)
By the responses at the end of the article and some of these responses, I think one can tell where the writer is from. People from the NY metro area seem to immediately default to the "well I know someone who is dying......." response and wants to lay a guilt trip on anyone who even thinks about wantng to go out in public. Prager is exactly correct in his assertation that those who are from the NYC are cannot phantom that life outside of their area could possibly be able to go on in another place while people near them are getting sick. I grew up In norther NJ and am now live in Michigan. While Michigan has also been hard hit, it has mostly been limited to the Detroit area. Like New York residents, people in the Detroit area (along with the Governor) fail to see how the rest of the state could still be up and running if we applied Dennis Prager's thinking to our state.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Doc-NSDQ 4/21/2020 1:48:43 PM (No. 386727)
This country/city Blue/Red Divide reminds me so much of the 55mph speed limit debate in the 1980s. For someone who lives in the NE and drives the 495 beltway around DC or the freeways up there, it might make sense. But I live in West Texas where the idea of going 55mph is just insane. But because the NE has such outsized power, that crazy speed limit was in place for decades. So yes, maybe a near total lockdown in NYC makes sense there, but out west we social distance automatically.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
TJ54 4/21/2020 2:20:23 PM (No. 386754)
No, next question
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
MDConservative 4/21/2020 2:56:11 PM (No. 386777)
Prager's point is well taken and misplaced. Cupmo, et al can fume on all day and govern their states however...but Montana and those western fly-over states have governors, too. South Dakota's is leading the way to keeping things reasonably open there. So, where are those other governors? Whose interests are they protecting? New York's?
Montana has a Dem governor. Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Kansas do, too. That could be a common thread with New York, Connecticut and New Jersey.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
jalo1951 4/21/2020 3:50:50 PM (No. 386811)
That is a very good argument. The answer is no, they would not.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
DVC 4/21/2020 4:44:30 PM (No. 386898)
I bet if you offered a $20 to "folks on the street" in NYC to locate Montana on a USA map, you'd have to have about 20 folks try before someone would get it. And they would be over 50 years old, too.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
DVC 4/21/2020 4:48:37 PM (No. 386906)
#14, in western Kansas, on the two lane rural highways, the speed limit is 65 mph. If you drive 70, you will be passed by a grandmother in an older Cutlass or Buick going 80+ with some regularity. Lots of ground to cover, we're burnin' daylight.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
red1066 4/21/2020 5:19:06 PM (No. 386945)
I question the number of deaths caused by the coronavirus. Seems those filling out the death certificates don't always know what caused the person's death.
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