dagblog - Comments for "How America’s Earliest Colonists Dictate Today’s Coronavirus Response" http://dagblog.com/link/how-america-s-earliest-colonists-dictate-today-s-coronavirus-response-30781 Comments for "How America’s Earliest Colonists Dictate Today’s Coronavirus Response" en Too much is being read into http://dagblog.com/comment/279411#comment-279411 <a id="comment-279411"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/how-america-s-earliest-colonists-dictate-today-s-coronavirus-response-30781">How America’s Earliest Colonists Dictate Today’s Coronavirus Response</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Too much is being read into that NY Times map. If I recall correctly the distance traveled metric is &gt; 2 miles. Does it even account for population densities? I live in the Metro Atlanta area so not sparsely populated. My grocery store is over 2 miles from my house. There is one nearer but it clocks right at 2 miles. Outside metro areas, distances are even farther to the nearest stores. Maybe using the distance to the nearest Walmart would be a better metric for those areas.</p> </div></div></div> Fri, 10 Apr 2020 00:25:02 +0000 EmmaZahn comment 279411 at http://dagblog.com