09-16-2020, 10:14 PM
(09-16-2020, 08:29 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: Florida believed this too. After June, they had 3500 deaths and numbers seemed to be leveled out. They opened back up and now they're sitting at 13,000 deaths. 3000 or so in July. Roughly 4000 in August. On pace for nearly 5000 in September.
New York was criticized for their high death toll, primarily coming immediately at the start of the pandemic when we knew far less and did not have nearly as many supplies as we needed. Since then, they've leveled off to less than 10 a day.
Florida, despite seeing how to manage this from New York, is on pace to have thousands of more deaths by the end of the year.
Florida has a larger population (21.48M) vs NY (19.45M). NY has more than 2x's the deaths (32,662) as Florida (12,938). Florida not locked down vs NY locked down.
How are you getting that Florida is on pace to have thousands more deaths than NY by the end of the year? NY has 19,724 more deaths as of today.
Even if they even out by the end of the year, Florida will be ahead from an economic standpoint plus less ancillary harms from lock downs.
