As the coronavirus exploded in New York City, leaders and residents of areas that are seasonal refuges and second homes for city dwellers called for outsiders to stay away. They feared that an influx of people could strain resources, from supermarkets to parks, and potentially overwhelm small exurban hospitals.

Yet preliminary data and anecdotal evidence does suggest that fleeing New Yorkers may have hastened the virus’s spread.

In Greene County, N.Y., home to the Catskill Mountains, the first four confirmed coronavirus cases were all people from New York City.

Mr. Groden and other county leaders have emphasized how their county has no hospital, even highlighting that fact in an official statement warning New Yorkers and people from Westchester to stay away. He said that about 30 percent of the county’s residences are second homes, most of which appear to be occupied now.

Throughout the region, the virus seems to be mostly following a logical pattern of infection, growing outward from its epicenter of New York City. But there have also been small bursts of flulike symptoms in areas where New Yorkers have summer homes, like the Adirondacks, the Jersey Shore, the Catskills and the Hamptons.

“The second-home people think that it’s Fourth of July,” said Joseph Mancini, the mayor of Long Beach Township, N.J., which this week joined several other shore towns in closing its beaches to nearly everyone but residents. “They’re out riding, biking, playing on the beach — not social distancing.”

And in Cape May, where the 30-year-old man from New York City tested positive at a local health care facility while visiting, year-round residents regularly call the offices of elected leaders to report out-of-state plates, according to a government official familiar with the calls.

“Folks from out of state need to understand the critical need to follow stay-at-home orders,” said State Senator Michael L. Testa Jr., a Republican who represents New Jersey’s southernmost district, which cuts across Cape May and Atlantic Counties. “It’s up to them to save their fellow Americans.”

Note the bold text from above.  I have made note on this blog before, just how bad New Yorkers have been at social distancing.

Not just people going to work on the subway system, but people still engaged in recreational activities in public parks.

In some respects, I can’t blame New Yorkers.  When you have 8.4 million people packed into 302 square miles of land, and an average population density of 27,750 people per square mile, everyone is packed in assholes to elbows all the time.

Still, the way some New Yorkers have reacted to the call for social distancing is obscene.

NYC park-goers threaten to spit, cough on cops enforcing social distancing

So it as typical of the stereotype of the rude, arrogant New Yorkers as you can imagine, that someone from NYC flees the virus epicenter of NYC to hide out in a low population vacation town, then engages in all their normal non-social distancing vacation behavior.

If you want a solid answer to the question posed by Slate, “why hasn’t the US rallied around NYC because of the Rona like they did after 9/11?” this is your answer.

You know what?  I’m going to post this video again:

So the New York City government decided to encourage people to attend a parade in Chinatown and go out to bars and restaurants just to spite Trump’s call for a travel ban and concerns.  NYC Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez said that not going to Chinese restaurants was racist.

When all that backfired and caused the virus to spread through the population of New York like a fire through central California, spreading just as fast, equally economically destructive and, even more deadly, wealthier New Yorkers took their virus on the road and spread it to sleepy isolated locations.

China’s mismanagement of the virus caused it to spread around the world.

New York’s mismanagement caused it to spread up and down the eastern seaboard.

If the writing on the wall is true, and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is going to replace Joe Biden on the ticket in November, Trump and the rest of the GOP better make sure Cuomo is held to account for this.

The sheer, breathtaking arrogance of upper-class New Yorkers casually spreading the virus to places that they see as existing just to serve them is a grotesque.