You are arguing it's an overaction but the same thing can still happen in Wichita and won't have the capacity to treat everyone.
Arguing it would never happen without controls is idiotic
Come on now. That’s pretty silly to say that Wichita is at comparable risk to NYC. We’ve got to start using some common sense here. Hell, even the models at this point seem to be recognizing the greater importance of population density.
Lack of density in say a Wichita also means they have less capacity to handle an outbreak that could break out without monitoring / testing that we didn't have when the lockdowns started (and still don't have).
Blaming "cities" is always fun way to fool yourself in believing "that can't happen here"
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/are-crowded-cities-the-reason-for-the-covid-19-pandemic/
It’s actually the opposite. South Central Kansas (Wichita, Hutch, Newton) has about 5.5 hospital beds per 1,000 capita. NYC is close to 2.5. So Wichita has more than double the bed capacity of NYC.
By contrast, Wichita has a population density of 2,146/sqmi. New York City is 26,403/sqmi. So only a mere 10 times denser.
NYC also has a subway. It fact, the most heavily used mass transit system in the county (I think the world) by far. Wichita doesn’t.
So, to recap:
Wichita: twice the hospital capacity, 10% the density, 0 petri dish subway.
New York City: half the hospital capacity, 1000% density, 1 petri dish subway.
The two cities are not anywhere near comparable. The risk is not anywhere near comparable. The approach should not have been anywhere near comparable.
