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Yesterday, down the Plaza here in Discovery Bay, HK, bumped into an old mate, resident here, but originally a New Yorker. who said, in passing, how badly Florida was doing in handling Covid -- his elderly parents live there-- and so much worse than New York.
I said: But New York is doing worse than Florida.
He said: No, it isn’t!
I said: Well, NY deaths per million are many times worse than Florida and the worst of all the American states. I’ve just been looking at the figures and they’re several times worse than Florida (I didn’t recall the exact amount).
He left it at that, I guess he wasn’t sure of the figures, but had just been repeating what he’d heard: namely that New York has done so well under Andrew Cuomo.
These are the facts (as at 07:12 GMT on 20 July):
- Deaths total: New York = 32,570 Florida = 4,985 (NY = 6.5 times as many)
- Death per million: New York = 1,777 Florida = 232 (NY = 7.7 times as many)
It is also way more deaths per capita than any other country, the worst of which is San Marino on 1,238, with most around 300-400.
And yet, and yet... somehow, Cuomo acolytes are saying that New York has done wonderfully. And my Plaza friend repeats that.
The worst in the US, the worst in the world, and it’s done “wonderfully." So much so that it’s worth the poster that Shapiro mocks above:
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