COVID-19: Density Is a Killer

In reality, being able to take a higher population area and "condense it" into a dense area of people's living spaces and the places where they work is the ideal many communities are striving for. The alternative is urban sprawl. To compare the two scenarios above, all you have to do is look at New York City, which is very dense and then Los Angeles, which is the poster child for urban sprawl.

Then there is the BIG, however ... when there is a disaster, be it an earthquake or a pandemic, there are other ramifications from density. Density then amplifies the impacts of the disaster because there are more people and infrastructure compacted in a disaster zone. 

Thus we have New York City taking it on the nose with the coronavirus hitting them hard right now. Other smaller, large and mid-sized metropolitan areas will follow. As an example, the city of Detroit already has 500 police officers testing positive for the virus. 

I'm waiting to see when and how rural areas are impacted by COVID-19. They have fewer people, but even proportionately fewer resources.