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Re: NYC tells citizens nothing to worry about for covid-19, go on with your day |
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Posted by Henry R32 #3730 on Thu Mar 26 20:49:45 2020, in response to NYC tells citizens nothing to worry about for covid-19, go on with your day, posted by Orange Blossom Special on Thu Mar 26 10:52:56 2020. Thank you. NYC is the US epicenter because of this nonsense. Mark Levine is the chair of the City Council's health committee and he's shown above telling people on 2/9 that Coronavirus is no big deal.Seattle is handling things pretty well despite it having been hit earlier. Diblasio was forced by his staff to close NYC schools (NY Times, 3/16). There is a reason decisions like lockdowns and whatnot need to be taken on the local level. To DiBlasio's credit he did eventually realize he fucked up and tried to lockdown the whole city, and Cuomo overruled him (CBS News, 3/18). Other than better testing I'm failing to see any politician who would have done better. Hell, the NYC/New Rochelle outbreak is traced to a traveller from Iran - how well would Trump banning travel from Iran (before February 29) have gone over? Everyone would have wailed "racist!" at him. Beyond the travel ban there's nothing that can be done that's not the responsibility of the local level. Federal action doesn't make sense beyond border control - the bottom 20 states on this list (starting with Vermont) for example will never have a need for a lockdown, it's too sparse. |
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