To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1222033 ) 4/19/2020 4:20:40 PM From: THE WATSONYOUTH Read Replies (2) | Respond to ......there are three (3) international airports within the NYC metro area.........Kennedy / La Guardia / and Newark.................together these airports are within 30 miles of over 16 million people.............these three airports received multiple direct flights from Wuhan and Milan in the Jan/Feb time frame.............there are HUGE Asian and Italian populations in NYC......especially in Brooklyn and Queens....there are about 76K virus cases in these two boroughs ALONE........and in NYC + adjoining Westchester, Nassau, Rockland counties in NY and 7 adjoining NJ counties within 30 miles, cases total over 276K ..............other airports receiving flights from the infected areas were in Chicago (25K out of 27.5K of cases in Illinois in Chicago metro) Detroit (24K out of 30K in Michigan in Detroit metro)......and of course LA, San Francisco, and Seattle.......................it does not require a degree from Cornell to figure this out.......perhaps only a degree from Cornell required to be called the "virus" expert......................I think this huge virus introduction event had much more effect than a few day delay in a lock down. Since Chinese officials disclosed the outbreak of a mysterious pneumonialike illness to international health officials on New Year’s Eve, at least 430,000 people have arrived in the United States on direct flights from China , including nearly 40,000 in the two months after President Trump imposed restrictions on such travel , according to an analysis of data collected in both countries. nytimes.com
