Posted on 03/21/2020 4:12:18 AM PDT by karpov
California Governor Gavin Newsom on Thursday ordered the state’s some 40 million citizens to “shelter in place,” meaning they shouldn’t leave their homes except to perform essential activities such as picking up food or medicine.
Then on Friday Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York ordered all non-essential businesses to keep their workers home, as did Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont. Governor Philip Murphy of New Jersey said he would do so on Saturday. These actions got a federal imprimatur when Dr. Anthony Fauci of the White House’s response task force endorsed the degree of shutdown ordered by Governors Newsom and Cuomo.
The speed at which the government-ordered clampdown has escalated is remarkable. Last week most businesses were still operating albeit at reduced capacity as people heeded public health recommendations to social distance. Restaurant reservation website OpenTable reported that year-over-year reservations were down 38% in California, 43% in Connecticut and 49% in New York as of March 12.
Then on Monday these Governors ordered gyms, restaurants, casinos and bars to close and banned social gatherings of more than 50 people. It makes sense to limit opportunities in which people can transmit the coronavirus to large groups of people. But we wonder if such massive public lockdowns as these Governors have ordered are warranted by the available data on the virus’s course.
Mr. Newsom warned that more than half of California’s population could be infected within eight weeks, but that obviously frightening assertion assumes no social distancing or other precautionary public health measures.
We praised Mr. Cuomo in these pages for pushing back this week against New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s suggestion that New York City residents would soon be told to “shelter in place,” which caused panic across the city. Now the Governor has ordered a statewide shutdown
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As if any of the illegal aliens these dopes have been sheltering for the last few years have any intention of obeying a stupid lockdown order. LOL.
Thanks to Albany’s profligate spending, NYS is billions in the hole.
We don’t have the money to deal with this.
I suspect the lockdown is Albany’s last desperate attempt to conceal that.
BTW, Albany, if your plastic bag ban has helped spread the WuFlu, God help you.
This will stick a fork in Upstate.
We’re toast.
The WuFlu won’t kill us.
Albany will.
Anyone plotting the growth curve of deaths due to economic cratering?
No but I’m placing bets on when total chaos will break out in the cities. Imagine cities with not booze, cigs and drugs much less TP
I’m in Upstate NY. The next warm day, I’m off to my garden to plant spinach and lettuce.
The feds are shoveling billions to the states and CA and NY will get more than anyone, because they’ll need it.
The economy is trashed, of course.
Upstate will be cool again, as you’ll at least have land for gardens and hunting.
I live in upstate NY. My wife passed away yesterday. I can’t have a viewing and proper church service.
tryouts for gun confiscation
So sorry
My condolences. It is a weird and horrible time.
My goodness, Bruce. That’s terrible news. :(
Prayers for her our friend.
Oh my word. So so sorry.
And the newly released criminals from Rikers, gangbangers, the homeless and drug addicts are stay home
Bruce, we are so sorry for your loss. We’ll keep you in our prayers.
Agreed. These governors are causing far too much unemployment and human suffering. And the longer term damage to the economy indicates further continuing harms can be expected
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