Coronavirus lessons on density, mass transit, bureaucracy and censorship: They kill.

[PeteS in CA]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/05/06/coronavirus-density-mass-transit-bureacracy-censorship-column/3075550001/

Coronavirus lessons on density, mass transit, bureaucracy and censorship: They kill.
Glenn Harlan Reynolds, Opinion columnist
5/6/2020

But there are some things that are becoming reasonably clear. Following are a few coronavirus lessons, useful now and in preparing for future events.

?Density kills. The coronavirus has been much more deadly in places like New York City or Boston than in rural settings. As demographer Joel Kotkin notes, Los Angeles has done much better than other big cities, because it’s less dense. ...
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?Mass Transit kills. Kotkin mentions mass transit, and an MIT study found that NYC subways were a ”major disseminator” of the coronavirus in New York. ... New York City subways are crowded, poorly ventilated and filthy. The city is only just now starting to clean them every night. ...
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?Bureaucracy kills. Much of the fight against the coronavirus has also involved a fight against bureaucrats dead set on making things worse. Early on, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared COVID-19 a public health emergency, which raised the bar for testing requirements. As a result, hospitals and universities faced significant barriers to getting alternative tests approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Worse yet, the CDC tests turned out to be defective.

As James R. Copland writes, this wasn’t political interference, but the work of professional bureaucrats: “The botched regulatory response in the United States owed little to the choices of political actors. The individuals running the FDA and CDC are experts in their field, not hacks.” ...

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Coronavirus lessons on Liberalism density, mass transit, bureaucracy and censorship: They kill.

[The_Reader_David]

Coronavirus lessons on Liberalism density, mass transit, bureaucracy and censorship: They kill.

No, not Liberalism, Leftism.  The ChiComs are absolutely illiberal, and density and mass transit in their cities bureaucracy (in the form where CYA is even worse than in the West, since if you don't, you might end up dead or being "reeducated") and censorship at their hands are the foundation of the whole pandemic.