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2020-05-19 Government

Why Did New York Infect America With Coronavirus? New Report Blames Cuomo, de Blasio

PJ via Instapundit
The New York City area not only has more than a quarter of America’s coronavirus cases, but new research suggests that most of the coronavirus cases outside the Big Apple trace back to the New York City area, as well. New York City is the epicenter for the coronavirus in the United States, and a new report suggests Mayor Bill de Blasio (D-N.Y.) and Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.) shoulder most of the blame.

New York’s emergence as the epicenter of the coronavirus was far from inevitable. A report from the left-leaning site ProPublica contrasted New York City’s and New York State’s responses with those of San Francisco and California. While people do not live on top of one another in San Francisco to the same degree that they do in the Big Apple, the actions of de Blasio and Cuomo strike a marked contrast with those of Mayor London Breed (D-San Francisco) and Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.).

...As ProPublica noted, the governor’s lockdown "came six days after San Francisco had shut down, five days after de Blasio suggested doing similarly and three days after all of California had been closed by Newsom. By then, New York faced a raging epidemic, with the number of confirmed cases at 15,000 doubling every three or four days."

...Whatever the answers to these important questions, it remains true that big cities like New York and San Francisco were likely vectors of the spread and the quick lockdowns in San Francisco contributed to stopping the spread far better than the late lockdowns in New York. In April, two experts concluded that if New York had imposed its social distancing measures a week or two earlier, the death toll might have been cut by half or more. Considering New York’s role as the U.S. epicenter of the disease, that’s an extreme underestimate.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-19 08:21|| || Front Page|| [16 views ] Top

#1 I suspect that in order to save Cuomo and NY's reputation a large number of lefties will start to push the unproven theory that California had a mild version of the virus in December.

I would like to see an East/West divide among the liberals as this would undercut Gavin Newsoms overreach on opening the economy

Posted by rjschwarz 2020-05-19 10:59|| 2020-05-19 10:59|| Front Page Top

#2 For the same reason that China did.

China is asshoe. New York is China.

Posted by charger 2020-05-19 12:56|| 2020-05-19 12:56|| Front Page Top

#3 I do not believe lockdowns have anything to do with anything. However both Cuomo and de Blasio encouraged large gatherings, making elder care facilities keep in residents who had tested positive, taking no steps to allow people to stay apart from one another, and talking up ignoring the epidemic.

Posted by daniel 2020-05-19 13:52|| 2020-05-19 13:52|| Front Page Top

#4 Gov. Andrew Cuomo gets a pass from CNN on nursing home policy controversy

Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-19 14:22|| 2020-05-19 14:22|| Front Page Top

#5 Prove this statement:

China is asshoe. New York is China, therefore New York is asshoe.

Transitive Property of Equality
The following property: If a = b and b = c, then a = c
New York is China. Let New York =a, China =b
now b=c, where c = asshoe.
a = b, i.e., New York = China. Since a = b, then b=c. so a = c.
Substituting names for symbols, New York = asshoe

Q E friggin D

Posted by Alaska Paul 2020-05-19 22:40|| 2020-05-19 22:40|| Front Page Top

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