
When I lived in a state with a lot of rural areas, whenever a major crime was committed in a local community, a shooting, a horrible sexual assault, a bizarre murder of an individual or a group, during a television news report, while the police are gathered in the background dealing with the crime scene with the ambulance with the victim(s) in it pulls away, someone having their once in a lifetime chance to be seen on TV points out that these are the things that only happen in New York City.
Actually, the incident of the moment happened right where the person is being interviewed, so, obviously, these crimes do not just happen
in New York City but actually everywhere even where people live in denial.As a result, while NYC is prepared for such events and may attempt steps to prevent a future event, or is prepared to handle the next one that happens, these little places assume they will happen somewhere else and take no preventive steps and have to scramble when one happens.
The same is now happening with COVID 19 as rural areas, after believing it only hits places like New York City, are showing signs of a spike in cases that could have been controlled had it not been for the erroneous belief that things like this only happen elsewhere.