Posted on 03/12/2020 2:23:52 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio declared a state of emergency in America’s largest city Thursday to try to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
Speaking at a press conference at City Hall, de Blasio also announced that he would cut the legal occupancy of New York City’s bars and restaurants in half.
The mayor said he “won’t be surprised” if businesses end up closing, but, "These are the rules we will enforce from now on.”
“I can assure you, none of us wanted to take this action,” de Blasio said. “But it is the point where it’s necessary.”
The mayor told reporters the city had 95 confirmed cases of coronavirus, a rise from 42 from Wednesday that de Blasio called “troubling.”
“The last 24 hours have been very, very sobering,” he said.
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Was the emergency before or after the virus?
The worse the economy gets, the better the chances Trump will be reelected.
Because he’s the only one who can fix the problem, he’s proven this and voters have seen it.
I didn’t realize governors could change the definitions of legal limits on a whim.
This is what dictatorship looks like.
This is what dictatorship is and if he wasn’t a licensed and approved SJW he’s be shouted down and forced out of office.
Los Angeles has larger population. Jacksonville is larger by ground covered. How is New York City the largest city?
Keep it up lefties because you are setting the table for something you don’t expect!
On a Sunday in July 1832, a fearful and somber crowd of New Yorkers gathered in City Hall Park for more bad news. The epidemic of cholera, cause unknown and prognosis dire, had reached its peak.
People of means were escaping to the country. The New York Evening Post reported, “The roads, in all directions, were lined with well-filled stagecoaches, livery coaches, private vehicles and equestrians, all panic-struck, fleeing the city, as we may suppose the inhabitants of Pompeii fled when the red lava showered down upon their houses.”
An assistant to the painter Asher B. Durand described the scene near the center of the outbreak. “There is no business doing here if I except that done by Cholera, Doctors, Undertakers, Coffinmakers, &c,” he wrote. “Our bustling city now wears a most gloomy & desolate aspect — one may take a walk up & down Broadway & scarce meet a soul.”
The epidemic left 3,515 dead out of a population of 250,000. (The equivalent death toll in today’s city of eight million would exceed 100,000.)
Los Angeles has larger population.
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Wrong.
New York City, NY (Population: 8,601,186).
Los Angeles, CA (Population: 4,057,841).
Chicago, IL (Population: 2,679,044).
Houston, TX (Population: 2,359,480).
My sister lives in Manhattan and I haven’t heard from her in a week.
I expect Trump’s numbers to drop dramatically over the next few weeks, but I think it will be temporary. But people want a scapegoat when bad things happen, and that’s usually the guy at the top, fairly or unfairly.
Well sure as hell Demented Joe can’t fix it.
Commie Chinese getting their win win. A tanked U.S economy and a chinese style way of dealing with the sheeple
I think New York has the largest population within the city limits, as opposed to the population of a city and suburban areas combined. And as noted Jacksonville is the largest land area of any American city. It all depends on what specific definition someone is using.
“The worse the economy gets, the better the chances Trump will be reelected”.
You’re right. No one in their right mind would want to replace a strong and good work horse with a stupid, worn out old mule in the middle of the stream....except Democrats.
The idiot should have done that the day he was sworn in as mayor.
Grocery stores are few and far between because most people eat out; lots of inexpensive restaurants and take-out.
If people fear the virus they won't eat out. If everyone races to the grocery stores they'll be overwhelmed.
There are a number of scenarios about how things could go badly in NYC and other large cities.
A rumor could cause a riot.
Short term only. In the long term they’re toast. The whole world will stand in line to get even with them over this!
A state of emergency was established the day that commie clown took office.
It took until today to declare it.
No doubt he has some money ear marked for interpretive lap dancing corona virus instruction.
It does not bode well to see government officials decree the size of public gatherings. Would like to see how they enforce this. And how long will it go on? The people, if they are well informed, tend to self-govern in the interest of self-preservation.
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