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these are live webcams showing what are
typically some of the world's busiest
places but now they're ghost towns this
is the effect the corona virus and it's
visible all over the world with more
than a million total cases corona virus
is a global disaster it's led to
countries declaring stay at home orders
keeping people at home in order to stop
the virus from spreading further turns
out you can actually get a look at all
of this while stuck at home using
open-source tools from tracking
airplanes in the sky to foot traffic
analytics from Google there are many
ways to see what it looks like in the
world is forced to grind to a halt this
video will show you how traffic is one
of the ways to look at how starkly
things have changed with cities and
nations implementing varying degrees of
social distancing measures roads and
places with typically notorious traffic
like Los Angeles have simply cleared up
this can be seen in both live traffic
cameras and live traffic trackers both
of which show LA's highways are much
more empty than usual perhaps
unsurprisingly this has led to drastic
cuts in accidents throughout the state
of California it's also led to three
straight weeks of cleaner air quality
than normal in Southern California it's
not just the roads either air traffic
has also started to disappear tracking
sites like flightradar24 show a massive
drop in numbers of commercial flights
tracked in the air starting around
mid-march using the sites seven-day
average there are around 72 percent
fewer commercial planes being tracked
now than there were at the beginning of
the year it's even more visible when
looking at the sites live map where
you're up typically swarming with
flights is mostly quiet the same can't
be said about the us quite yet although
there has been a drop
another site radar box shows how
individual airports have been affected
New York City's JFK Airport has seen an
85 percent drop in its seven day average
measuring plane movement another way to
see how badly the airline industry has
been hit by cope in nineteen by using
satellite imagery while not always die
as quality the Sentinel program has near
daily imagery that can be used to
observe changes at airports one specific
example of this is the airport in
Frankfurt Germany where because of the
slowdown in flights planes are being
stored on runways that aren't being used
the same thing can be observed in Tulsa
Oklahoma while ground and air traffic
are good ways to see the lack of
movement between places there are also
ways to see how much foot traffic has
decreased in cities typical tourist
destinations like Rome have myriad live
web cameras that show
eerie stillness compared to what could
be seen before the outbreak hobbyists
that drone videos shared on places like
YouTube or other social media sites
illustrate a similar point a more
abstract way to see this is using
Google's community mobility reports
anonymized and aggregated data collected
by Google Maps using these you can see
just how much people's movements have
changed since the outbreak whereas
retail and recreation movement in the
States is dropped by about 47% it's
fallen by 77% in Germany comparing the
u.s. against the country like Germany
shows a wide gap between how both
nations have responded to the outbreak
at least in terms of foot traffic all of
this adds up to show just how
drastically different parts of society
have been changed by the Cova 19
outbreak but there's a silver lining to
be seen here with all of this data and
evidence showing that people really are
staying home and means social distancing
measures are generally being observed
something public health experts say has
to happen to stop the spread of the
corona virus
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