If you favor low density living, Jim Geraghty of National Review has a column you’ll like. He thinks it’s possible the CoV scare will cause many urban dwellers to rethink that choice. Especially influential is the adaptation of office workers to working at home, which many including one nephew and another nephew’s wife, are today doing.
At some point the coronavirus crisis will end, but one of the extraordinarily difficult lessons of this ordeal is that the catastrophic scenarios that sound like something out of science fiction can happen in real life, and that the vast majority of us are at the mercy of fate in these scenarios. (snip) Someday, humanity could encounter one (virus) that is even worseI’d take issue with his judgment of “urban life” being a “necessity” for the old. It’s really only necessary for the old who are poor unless one is so frail one needs to be five minutes from an emergency room. Even then, small city life works.
This outbreak is likely to accelerate the trend of seeing urban life as a luxury for the wealthy and young and a necessity for the poor and old.
Now we are learning, once again, that densely packed cities are particularly dangerous places to be during a disease outbreak.
