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The article doesn’t mention public transportation at all. Nyc has huge numbers of people on subways and buses. LA is predominately cars. The bart in the Bay Area is somewhat comparable to nj transit and commuter trains into nyc but SF has nothing like the nyc subways

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Look at the situation from a different perspective. Dozens of large dense cities with mass transportation-- Seoul, Shanghai, Tokyo, Singapore-- were able to contain the pandemic much more readily than New York.

The takeaway here is that given its density NYC should have taken measures to contain the spread of coronavirus much sooner. It definitely had the resources to do so.

The article is about California and NYC. I don’t think there is a comparable European city for LA

The article is about the impact of a failure to practice social distancing in NYC versus LA. You brought up the issue of mass transportation, which I showed is not a relevant factor by bringing in external examples.

something to be said to every person who always yells for fewer cars and more buses/subways

Or, you can mass transport systems like Japan and have people use masks.

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