The "70% vs. 1%" he refers to is about how the official NYC data is that 73.84% of recent cases are traceable back to private household gatherings, whereas 1.43% are traceable back to restaurants and bars:
People are already meeting, more and more, and in larger and larger numbers, in their apartments, thereby making the apartment serve as a makeshift restaurant, bar, or nightclub. You think it's better to ban all public dining, rather than have dining be open, with the wider spaces between people and at least some guidelines being enforced? From October to November to December, I've seen a massive increase in the number of Instagram posts of New Yorkers (as that's whose pages and geo-tags I follow and check out) having get-togethers and parties in their apartments, and it doesn't appear than any sort of safety protocol is being enforced in any photo or video I've seen from those, and the average apartment is much smaller than the average restaurant, bar, or club. Of course, the official policy is to keep the public establishments closed down rather than doing something in between total shutdown and total openness, and that's just one reason why I expect this shutdown to extend all through 2021, into 2022. Halloween didn't happen this year, but then a reported 50 million Americans traveled for Thanksgiving, and that means at least another 50 Americans were welcoming them to celebrate--indeed in the rooms of their own homes--and I expect far more to travel for Christmas.
Great talk at 51:40 as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9tfLEoUE3Y#t=51m40s
The "70% vs. 1%" he refers to is about how the official NYC data is that 73.84% of recent cases are traceable back to private household gatherings, whereas 1.43% are traceable back to restaurants and bars:
https://i.imgur.com/1h7RK64.jpg
People are already meeting, more and more, and in larger and larger numbers, in their apartments, thereby making the apartment serve as a makeshift restaurant, bar, or nightclub. You think it's better to ban all public dining, rather than have dining be open, with the wider spaces between people and at least some guidelines being enforced? From October to November to December, I've seen a massive increase in the number of Instagram posts of New Yorkers (as that's whose pages and geo-tags I follow and check out) having get-togethers and parties in their apartments, and it doesn't appear than any sort of safety protocol is being enforced in any photo or video I've seen from those, and the average apartment is much smaller than the average restaurant, bar, or club. Of course, the official policy is to keep the public establishments closed down rather than doing something in between total shutdown and total openness, and that's just one reason why I expect this shutdown to extend all through 2021, into 2022. Halloween didn't happen this year, but then a reported 50 million Americans traveled for Thanksgiving, and that means at least another 50 Americans were welcoming them to celebrate--indeed in the rooms of their own homes--and I expect far more to travel for Christmas.