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Good morning @RexArcherMD, couldn't help but notice you still have this tweet up saying Kansas City should be more like NYC. If Kansas City were like NYC, we'd have 1,385 #COVID19 deaths. We currently have 96 in KCMO. But at least their curve is flat now! https://twitter.com/RexArcherMD/status/1295540554399469569?s=20
But there isn't just COVID mortality - what about from lockdowns? If Queens is any indication, suicides in NYC have spiked drastically since 2019 - they saw the same number of suicides in 6 weeks that they had previously seen over 4 months in 2019. https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-coronavirus-queens-suicide-rates-increase-20200429-mqyzdplseva5belmqewn43u56i-story.html
Not just suicides, but drug overdoses too - Queens has had a 56% increase in overdose deaths compared to 2019.
http://theforumnewsgroup.com/2020/06/05/opioid-addiction-overdoses-on-rise-da/
http://theforumnewsgroup.com/2020/06/05/opioid-addiction-overdoses-on-rise-da/
1/4 of apartment renters in NYC have not been able to pay their rent since March. That's 1.4 million people that could potentially lose their homes. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/quarter-of-apartment-renters-in-new-york-city-havent-paid-rent-since-march
1/3 of NYC small businesses are likely to close forever. I for one like our small businesses in KC - one in particular, Tapcade, has been one of my favorite hangouts for years. They permanently close on Sunday. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/nyregion/nyc-small-businesses-closing-coronavirus.html
In June (cases and deaths were essentially zero at this point in NY) lockdowns were costing NYC $173 million per day. But I'm sure they were just suppressing the "next wave"!
https://fortune.com/2020/06/06/new-york-city-nyc-lockdown-cost-economy-coronavirus/#:~:text=New%20York%20City%20lockdown%20is%20costing%20%24173%20million%20per%20day.
https://fortune.com/2020/06/06/new-york-city-nyc-lockdown-cost-economy-coronavirus/#:~:text=New%20York%20City%20lockdown%20is%20costing%20%24173%20million%20per%20day.
And to make things worse, people are leaving NYC in droves, bringing their tax dollars with them. How are they going to make up that kind of deficit?
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/nyc-dead-forever-heres-why-james-altucher/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/nyc-dead-forever-heres-why-james-altucher/
But hey, let's look at our situation in KC - as you obsess over rising case numbers, deaths have flattened. Case numbers have gone up, and deaths have gone down. Deaths started slowing in June/July, which is when KC mobility had nearly reached pre-pandemic levels. Huh?
So @RexArcherMD , which part of NYC do you want us to be like? The huge number of COVID 19 deaths? The huge rise in suicides/overdoses? Bringing a tsunami of impending homelessness to 1/4 of KC renters? Destroying small businesses? Bankrupting the city?
So stop with your anti-data, anti-reality nonsense. The two most important indicators, hospitalizations and deaths, have flattened in KC. There are 238 people hospitalized with (not necessarily from) #COVID19, in a region of what, 2+ million people?
Based on every other spike in every other city throughout the United States, this will be effectively over in KC by mid-late September. Yes, the spike came late, but the virus was going to come regardless of how many NPIs we introduced (see New Zealand). We are going to be fine.
@kerpen @AskeladdenTX @JordanSchachtel @justin_hart @AlexBerenson If any of you feel like sharing this, I'd appreciate it. The KC Dept of Health Director has really been showing his partisanship and incompetence. We currently have a state of emergency until January 2021.
