You know, I've been pondering something: everyone is talking about how young people are the ones getting the virus in this wave (what I call the Mexican wave).
You all remember when the Italian wave hit New York, they ordered the strict lockdown, the stay-home order and all. Well, most twentysomethings live alone, or with their parents. Far fewer have married and started families than was the case in previous generations. But in March when everything was suddenly shut down, that triggered a mass panic. I know many people in their 20s and 30s who moved back in with their parents to wait out the pandemic. They were out partying days, weeks before and brought that virus back home to their extended families. Thus the higher rates of illness among older people, and thus the higher rates of death.
But now, with things opening up, twentysomethings are now largely spreading the virus among each other, and since the panic has subsided for the most part, they feel free to socialize with people their own age again. So even though the case counts are quite high, the mortality rate is dropping because they're not taking it home to their more vulnerable family members.
I remember Cuomo alluding to this when the Italian wave was at its peak, that the hard lockdown was a mistake for that very reason.
