Queens councilman’s call to shut down mass transit brushed aside by MTA, union (homeless with virus living on trains?)

QNS ^ | 4/20/20 | Mark Hallum

[Libloather]

A letter to Governor Andrew Cuomo to shut down the city’s subways and buses as a measure against the spread of COVID-19 was not met with agreement by the parties involved on Sunday morning.

City Councilman Robert Holden’s office penned the letter that Holden and three other City Council members signed — Eric Ulrich and Peter Koo of Queens, and Mark Gjonaj of the Bronx.

The lawmakers said that the striking number of transit workers deaths, as well as the prolific spread of the disease being something unique to New York City, should be considered. They also called on the city to suspend all parking regulations.

Holden’s office did not immediately respond to amNewYork Metro when asked for a copy of the letter, but posted the letter to Facebook after our deadline for this story.

The MTA told amNewYork Metro on Sunday that the request was a non-starter.

“What these council members don’t realize is that shutting down mass transit during this unprecedented crisis would be dangerous and could lead to even more deaths,” an MTA statement said.

[Libloather]

De Blasio shredded for encouraging New Yorkers to rat out social distancing violators

“All you’ve got to do is take the photo and put the location with it, and, bang, send a photo like this and we will make sure that enforcement comes right away,” de Blasio said in a video message.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/de-blasio-shredded-over-encouraging-new-yorkers-to-rat-out-social-distancing-violators

[Libloather]

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/de-blasio-shredded-over-encouraging-new-yorkers-to-rat-out-social-distancing-violators

[Fiji Hill]

Petula Clark's admonition, from around five decades ago, not to use NYC's mass transit trains as a bedroom is now more relevant than ever.

[DoodleBob]

This looks like a good place to post the size- and time-adjusted COVID-19 fatality counts. Methodology details available at the link. To make life simple, I'm posting the country and state data once.

Below are the data. Note for the US as nation, that Day 1 is March 25, which means Day 26 is April 19 for that row of data. You can do the math for the other municipalities to find out what Day XX means for them in calendar times; as a general rule, the last actual data point is the freshest date, but on a Golf timeline it gives each municipality's score as of the "26th hole." Data are sorted by descending Day 26 fatality counts. For the state-level data, I included states that only had fatality counts from Day 23 onward; I'll post all of the data to my About page.

America's relative size moved up a few days ago with NY adding 3700 fatalities. We basically switched places with Switzerland, however Ireland is now sligtly higher in the adjusted-fatality count. Hands-off Sweden and Netherlands are higher in the fatality race but they haven't vaporized their service economies.

At the state level, the Blue states are running away with it - the municipalities with size- and time-adjusted fatalities higher than the US as a whole by Day 26 are New York (Blue), New Jersey (Blue), Connecticut (Blue), Massachusetts (Blue), Michigan (Red), Louisiana (Red), and District of Columbia (Blue), respectively.

Country	Date of Day 1=day priot to hitting 1,000+ population-adjusted deaths	Population	Day 23	Day 24	Day 25	Day 26	Day 27	Day 28
San Marino	3/3/20	33,574	206,132	206,132	206,132	215,948	215,948	245,396
Andorra	3/21/20	77,543	123,249	123,249	131,749	140,249	140,249	148,749
Belgium	3/19/20	11,524,454	86,332	95,683	102,947	111,611	118,875	126,967
Spain	3/13/20	47,100,396	83,592	88,448	93,346	98,271	103,498	108,081
West Bank and Gaza	3/25/20	11,700	56,334	56,334	56,334	84,502	-	-
France	3/18/20	67,076,000	60,078	64,928	68,052	70,809	73,629	77,373
Italy	3/5/20	60,243,406	49,967	54,830	58,966	63,408	67,986	71,963
United Kingdom	3/20/20	66,435,550	49,070	52,726	56,287	60,166	63,961	68,252
Netherlands	3/17/20	17,451,031	42,585	45,380	47,589	50,101	51,876	53,500
Sweden	3/23/20	10,333,456	32,945	38,366	42,512	44,649	48,189	49,114
Ireland	3/25/20	4,921,500	32,544	35,490	38,236	40,847	-	-
United States	3/25/20	329,556,365	32,916	36,773	38,664	40,661	-	-
Switzerland	3/16/20	8,586,550	31,510	34,351	36,385	38,457	39,762	42,449
Luxembourg	3/17/20	613,894	24,694	27,915	28,989	33,283	35,431	37,041
Macedonia	3/24/20	679,600	21,822	22,307	23,761	23,761	24,731	-
Portugal	3/23/20	10,276,617	18,183	19,209	20,171	21,069	22,031	22,897
Germany	3/25/20	83,149,300	16,060	17,249	17,673	18,176	-	-
Denmark	3/22/20	5,822,763	16,130	16,923	17,489	18,168	19,017	19,583
Austria	3/23/20	8,902,600	14,215	14,548	15,177	15,955	16,399	16,732
Iran	3/9/20	83,331,064	11,461	12,007	12,497	13,027	13,652	14,249
Iceland	3/23/20	364,260	7,238	7,238	7,238	8,143	8,143	8,143
Cyprus	3/23/20	875,900	4,515	4,515	4,515	4,515	4,515	4,515

Municipality	Date of Day 1 = day prior to breaching size-adj 1,000 COVID19 fatalities	Population (MM)	Day 23	Day 24	Day 25	Day 26	Day 27	Day 28
New York	3/20/20	19.8	143,621	156,240	167,410	180,362	192,881	202,970
New Jersey	3/23/20	9.0	103,193	116,106	129,424	141,270	149,731	160,474
Connecticut	3/23/20	3.6	61,582	79,661	89,114	95,080	99,668	103,431
Massachusetts	3/25/20	6.8	60,387	68,100	75,666	82,748	-	-
Michigan	3/24/20	9.9	63,735	69,448	73,932	76,622	79,412	-
Louisiana	3/20/20	4.7	56,870	59,269	62,373	71,475	77,825	81,565
District of Columbia	3/24/20	0.7	35,298	39,710	42,161	44,612	47,064	-
United States	3/25/20	329.6	32,916	36,773	38,664	40,661	-	-
Colorado	3/24/20	5.5	21,441	22,588	23,494	24,702	25,366	-
Georgia	3/23/20	10.2	16,680	18,357	19,712	21,325	21,616	22,164
Nevada	3/24/20	2.9	15,618	16,188	17,214	17,670	18,012	-
Vermont	3/18/20	0.6	12,107	12,634	13,160	14,213	14,740	15,266
Washington	3/8/20	7.2	10,157	10,387	11,444	12,501	13,467	14,616
California	3/27/20	39.1	9,648	9,909	-	-	-	-
Delaware	3/27/20	0.9	23,342	23,342	-	-	-	-
Idaho	3/28/20	1.7	8,762	-	-	-	-	-
Illinois	3/27/20	12.9	32,597	33,058	-	-	-	-
Indiana	3/26/20	6.6	25,838	27,132	27,979	-	-	-
Mississippi	3/27/20	3.0	16,740	17,511	-	-	-	-
Oklahoma	3/27/20	3.9	11,712	11,796	-	-	-	-
Oregon	3/27/20	4.0	5,889	6,053	-	-	-	-
Pennsylvania	3/28/20	12.8	32,846	-	-	-	-	-
South Carolina	3/27/20	4.9	8,010	8,077	-	-	-	-

[dp0622]

Gee it’s a shame they never attached a line to Staten Island...

Who doesn’t like to find junkies and gangstas at their local station :)

We have a 20 stop local train :)

But everyone has cars out here.

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

Breathtaking hypocrisy.