we have flattened the curve, hospitals are empty, why are we still in quarantine (New York: crime, cost of)
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He's hopscotching excuses (first it was overcrowded hospitals, then it was bad nursing home operators, then it was pointing out that other states had nursing home deaths, and now [of course] it is "Trump's CDC") hoping the public will buy one or more of the excuse smorgasbord. He even desperately whipped out the old "Republican's are playing politics" attempted diversion. Nobody (left, right, or center) is buying his childish excuses on this one.
Unfortunately the pesky little facts are that one simply cannot permit Covid-positive patients to enter nursing homes. Ever. The fact he reversed himself and the state's new standing order explicitly forbids continuing that catastrophic action is as close he has got to admitting he was wrong.
NY's nursing home debacle, rather than the whole series of televised press conferences, may very well be his legacy for the crisis.
And he knows it.
The problem he has now is he's backed himself into a corner. Since he's been so very cautious, when things do open up, he runs the real risk of being blamed no matter what happens. And since he's very cautious, when cases inevitably spike, he's going to look really bad if he doesn't shut it all down again - but then no one is going to tolerate him shutting it all down again because of what happened this time. He's really created a vicious cycle for himself. What happened in NYC was in an inevitability, to some extent, due to the population density.And it inevitably will happen again. Will his next response be informed by the way people are reacting to him now? It will be interesting to see.
NYC def got caught with our pants down with Covid and it was inevitable. But I think we will be way better prepared for another outbreak if there is one.
NYC def got caught with our pants down with Covid and it was inevitable. But I think we will be way better prepared for another outbreak if there is one.
IF people have and use good judgment. I read this morning that illegal migrant workers think they can avoid the virus by eating spicy food. Think about that type of person and where they might live in NY - and where the hotspots have been.
NYC def got caught with our pants down with Covid and it was inevitable. But I think we will be way better prepared for another outbreak if there is one.
IF you can get everyone to stay in. I haven't seen NEAR the complaining around here that I've seen on this board and we don't have it near as bad here.
That was really my only point - things will go downhill quick if he can't get people to go back into lockdown. And people are going to be reluctant to do that with the memory of how long this has taken.
IF you can get everyone to stay in. I haven't seen NEAR the complaining around here that I've seen on this board and we don't have it near as bad here.
That was really my only point - things will go downhill quick if he can't get people to go back into lockdown. And people are going to be reluctant to do that with the memory of how long this has taken.
I just saw a graphic that said NY & NM are the only states that are trending better.
I hated every moment of lockdown but if we can keep trending here in the right direction i’ll be happy. Looks like NY is one of the better states to be in now ...
I just saw a graphic that said NY & NM are the only states that are trending better.
I hated every moment of lockdown but if we can keep trending here in the right direction i’ll be happy. Looks like NY is one of the better states to be in now ...
Better for whom? Are you going to stay shut down the rest of the year? You'll be in the same boat as all the others when you re-open. If there is anything left to re-open.
I just saw a graphic that said NY & NM are the only states that are trending better.
I hated every moment of lockdown but if we can keep trending here in the right direction i’ll be happy. Looks like NY is one of the better states to be in now ...
New coronavirus hospitalizations and the daily death toll have ticked up slightly, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday — troubling blips amid the disease’s overall decline.
Some 229 New Yorkers have been hospitalized with COVID-19, according to the three-day rolling average through Saturday, Cuomo said in a press briefing at Jones Beach Theatre in Wantagh, Long Island.
That represents a jump of 21 from the 208 new hospitalizations under the previous three-day rolling average, according to statistics from the state Department of Health.
“The new cases are up a little bit on the rolling average,” said Cuomo.
Meanwhile, the number of diagnoses in the five boroughs stood at 195,452 as of 1:15 p.m. Sunday, according to the city’s Department of Health.
The Big Apple has now seen at least 21,216 deaths — 16,469 confirmed to be from the coronavirus, and another 4,747 presumed to be connected.
Been there, done that, long before you arrived. I would note that my reference to Contact Tracing was not specific to the outbreak of COVID-19 but to the work in general, hence my abbreviated first post here which I have previously explained.
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