Just in the first 3 paragraphs of the article:<p>> ...An analysis of multiple sources of aggregated smartphone location data has found.<p>You need a smartphone and apps/settings that enable aggregation of location data. This is not something that is going to be evenly distributed throughout the city. Further, that is likely to be primarily advertising data, so quality is less than you would desire. How many people are going to be counted twice when you merge this data together?<p>> Roughly 5 percent of residents — or about 420,000 people — left the city between March 1 and May 1.<p>That's not a lot of people for NYC.<p>> Some of these areas are typically home to lots of students, many of whom left as colleges and universities closed<p>There are nearly 600,000 college students in NYC[1]. That's more than the number of people that left!<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_New_York_City" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_New_York_City</a>
Stream of consciousness, but as a New Yorker, here are my two cents:<p>Anecdotally, one of the first things I noticed while driving through the Upper East Side about a month ago was the number of lights that were off around 8pm. It was a little disturbing to see, but people have their own prerogative and there is no way to tell someone that they should stay in the city to support the people who live here. Lately, I do still see people moving out. Typically one or two cars loading stuff. A lot of furniture on the sidewalks if you’re into that type of thing.<p>I am keeping a pulse on things by watching rental prices on Craigslist. I enjoy seeing the sublet ads that ask for someone to take over a 3000/mo 1 bedroom apartment in Hells Kitchen. They’ll be back in September. Until then, pay their full rent to live in a neighborhood that was sketchy before, but barely habitable now. I don’t even feel safe driving through there after sundown.<p>Which brings me to the point: I think the racial imbalance in terms of who gets sick is clearly driven by the ability to work from home, ability to actually socially distance, and the ability to just leave the city and go back home until things blow over. I’ve lived in a three generation apartment in the boroughs. If one person gets sick, they all do.
I know the point is to avoid getting COVID but... the hospitals in NYC, even in a crisis, are SO much better than they are out in the Hamptons (and other non-urban areas). It's night and day in terms of quality and resources.<p>I purposefully stayed in [other big city] for this reason, rather than going home. Seems very short-sighted to leave if you're that concerned.
Pointing out disparities between groups can help us decide how to address them. But I don't see how this article helps much in that sense; it's pretty obvious it would happen and there's no palpable remedy. It's one of the thousand ways it helps to have more material resources, a fact nearly all are already aware of.