04-04-2020, 08:12 AM
The appearance of Louisiana is a clear warning that the worst ravages of COVID-19 are yet to befall America. To be sure, New Orleans is a cosmopolitan city with a huge number of travelers (such as workers on offshore oil rigs, and New Orleans is where they are most likely to go for R&R)... but New Orleans is the staging area for COVID-19 reaching people in a not-so-cosmopolitan area that includes the rest of Louisiana, southern Mississippi, and southwestern Alabama -- here medical infrastructure is inadequate even in good times.
...despite the proximity to New York City, Connecticut and Ne Jersey seem to be doing better than expected.
Initially the stereotypical victim of COVID-19 as the frequent flyer, so far as I could tell from the "Recent Deaths" list on Wikipedia...
...despite the proximity to New York City, Connecticut and Ne Jersey seem to be doing better than expected.
Initially the stereotypical victim of COVID-19 as the frequent flyer, so far as I could tell from the "Recent Deaths" list on Wikipedia...
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.