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Fair enough.....but then they'd complain they weren't allowed to watch Ozark or play Candy Crush or post irrational things on internet message boards because the "man" was keeping them down....
Complaining is what people do best
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And RIGHT HERE is the answer to the subject of this thread. "Mean old Cuomo won't let us go back to normal! I don't want to wear a mask! I want to go to movies! WAHHHH!!!!" And THIS IS WHY. The level of entitlement in the face of our own documented stupidity is STAGGERING. I don't like Cuomo 99% of the time, but I'm sorry, if you want restrictions lifted, ACT LIKE RESPONSIBLE members of society. Don't go to a hotzone and then ignore a quarantine order because it inconveniences you. Stop pretending you don't understand how community spread happens and what an asymptomatic person is and wear a mask in public! And stop acting like the governor of a state doing these things which directly impact how much money that state is getting is doing these things indiscriminately.
If you don't want the government telling you what you can and cannot do during a pandemic, act responsibly so he doesn't HAVE to.
This is the problem with the virus becoming a political issue - you and others are quick to assume that it's rednecks running around refusing to wear masks that are increasing the spread when it's actually mostly certain groups that just don't know/care about the rules.
In NY, the virus initially spread rapidly among the Orthodox Jewish population who refused to stop congregating. The epicenter of the virus in NYC was Queens, particularly in Elmhurst Hospital, which serves a primarily poor, minority community, and the races of those admitted to the hospital reflected that. There have been dozens of articles bemoaning the disproportionate spread of the virus in minority communities (yet another thing to blame on "racism").
Do people assume that Florida is just a bunch of trailer dwellers from the panhandle? Florida is a purple swing state and their population centers like Miami are both extremely diverse and often filled with transplants from states like New York. Same goes for the cities of Texas and Arizona. Houston is literally the most diverse city in the country.
Please refrain from stereotyping the type of person you imagine to be spreading the virus based on who gets the most coverage from media types. The noisy anti-masker may make for more entertaining (read: angering) TV, but they aren't any bigger of a problem than others.
This is the problem with the virus becoming a political issue - you and others are quick to assume that it's rednecks running around refusing to wear masks that are increasing the spread when it's actually mostly certain groups that just don't know/care about the rules.
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Have to agree here. Saw 2 polar opposite photos of protestors yesterday. One BLM and Co, the other Thin Blue Line and Co. Geographically apart. NEITHER wearing masks or paying attention to social D.
/\ The enormous crowds of screaming protesters and looters we saw last month had nothing to do with pro-police protests. At all.
On the other hand, the fact there's been no subsequent spike in NYC tells us the antibody immunity is pretty high and the disease is spreading very inefficiently here now. Think of it as a peculiar and violent epidemiological experiment.
(Other places south and west with density approaching NYC and suburbs are being hit now and are doubtlessly now ratcheting up their own immunity via antibodies.)
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This was the bombshell and scary-sounding news from Cuomo earlier today: More than one-third of people who attended a Fourth of July party in Suffolk County have become infected with COVID-19, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said Tuesday.
Some 35% of the partygoers at the event in Suffolk tested positive for the coronavirus, he said. State and local officials were able to determine that through contact tracing. "It's also clear based on contact tracing that many of the new cases in New York are a result of a lack of compliance during the July 4 weekend and illustrate how quickly the virus spreads, with one party, for example, infecting more than a third of attendees," Cuomo said. This was the Newsday (online) headline: COVID-19 spread at Fourth of July party in Suffolk, Cuomo says https://www.newsday.com/news/health/...d19-1.46859774
Just now the correction/clarification from a Newsday reporter:
Robert Brodsky @BrodskyRobert
Jul 14, 2020
Update on Suffolk July 4th party reported by the state: 4 of 18 ppl who attended a house party/bbq tested positive for the virus or 22%; three others were initially believed to have tested positive but results came back negative; not a super spreader incidenthttps://www.newsday.com/news/health/...and-1.43149650
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/\ The enormous crowds of screaming protesters and looters we saw last month had nothing to do with pro-police protests. At all.
Saw it with my own eyes yesterday, bud. Protests from THIS past weekend.
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