Opinion | America Shouldn t Have to Play by New York Rules – The New York Times

No wonder so much of America has dwindling sympathy with the idea of prolonging lockdown conditions much further. The curves are flattening; hospital systems haven t come close to being overwhelmed; Americans have adapted to new etiquettes of social distancing. Many of the worst Covid outbreaks outside New York (such as at Chicago s Cook County Jail or the Smithfield Foods processing plant in Sioux Falls, S.D.) have specific causes that can be addressed without population-wide lockdowns.

Yet Americans are being told they must still play by New York rules with all the hardships they entail despite having neither New York s living conditions nor New York s health outcomes. This is bad medicine, misguided public policy, and horrible politics.

via www.nytimes.com