Urbanization, Mass Transit - Bad For Your Health

Oh yeah, remember how the elites wanted everyone to live in stacked boxes near public transportation? How's that working out? Building dense cities was California’s cure for the housing crisis. Then came coronavirus https://t.co/dQmhC27djW

— Harmeet K. Dhillon (@pnjaban) April 27, 2020

From the Los Angeles Times:

For more than a decade, California lawmakers have pushed with increasing urgency to build more housing near transit stops and job centers. Density, they’ve reasoned, is the best way to control the exploding cost of living and reduce residents’ reliance on carbon-spewing vehicles in a state best known for its sprawling suburbs.

But now density has a new foe: the coronavirus.

Skeptics of greater urbanization say the pandemic has proved that they were right all along, pointing to orders from public health officials to use social distancing to slow the spread of the virus. Even some ardent urbanists worry that the speed with which the virus devastated packed neighborhoods could lead to a backlash against cities.

New York City, the nation’s densest major city, is a hotbed of the outbreak in the United States with more than 150,000 confirmed cases and 11,100 deaths. That state’s governor, Andrew Cuomo, has blamed high-rise apartment complexes and busy subways for the city’s plight.

Living in a single-family home and driving in your own car rather than using public transportation are things that help keep you healthy.

Social distancing is helpful.