Posted on 05/25/2020 4:09:26 PM PDT by Hojczyk
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo admitted Monday that coronavirus projections from experts were all wrong -- and he's getting out of the business of speculating because of it.
Cuomo said he can't predict when the hospitalization and death rate numbers will drop to the necessary threshold required for reopening certain regions because as he put it, "we all failed" at predicting.
"Now, people can speculate. People can guess. I think next week, I think two weeks, I think a month," Cuomo told reporters on Memorial Day. "I'm out of that business because we all failed at that business. Right? All the early national experts. Here's my projection model. Here's my projection model. They were all wrong. They were all wrong."
Cuomo's rare admission came during an event at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York City when a reporter asked the governor when hard-hit New York City might reopen.
Cuomo mentioned the statewide criteria that regions needed to hit to phase out of quarantine, which included a 14-day decline in coronavirus hospitalizations and deaths. But, he admitted he didn't "want to guess" when the Big Apple could meet the benchmark because past projections have been wrong.
"There are a lot of variables. I understand that. We didn't know what the social distancing would actually amount to. I get it, but we were all wrong," Cuomo said. "So, I'm sort of out of the guessing business, right? We watched the numbers. We prepare as the numbers drop, so when the number actually hits the threshold, we're ready to go. We just finished that. We're in the midst of that with Long Island, Mid-Hudson region, etc. But... I don't want to guess."
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When you’re Fredo the Elder failure is a default not an option.
Does he have a mouse in his pocket?
Dave: You always nail it.
Wait a minute. I thought it was Paul Ryan who was guilty of dumping Granny off a cliff? Because of fictitious cuts in Social Security? The picture came from an anti-Ryan ad. In Cuomo’s case it’s not a wild exaggeration is it?
This was a Freudian slip. He meant to say I WAS WRONG.. But that would be telling the truth. And it is hard for him to say exactly the way things are. That;s the trouble.
Who is “We”, Kimosabe?
Cuomo: “Move along. Nothing to see...”
No bozo, YOU failed. F’ing liberals. They can never accept personal responsibility for anything. They always have to spread the blame around. Cuomo was his own Cassandra, his own Chicken Little. He tried blaming Trump, he tried blaming the nursing homes for all the deaths of the elderly when HE was the one who ordered them placed in nursing homes.
This is called “trying to stuff the toothpaste back in the tube.”
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