Posted on 03/26/2020 10:29:28 PM PDT by Helicondelta
Sweeping statewide quarantine orders may not have been the most effective strategy to combat the coronavirus, Gov. Andrew Cuomo conceded on Thursday, as he weighed plans to restart the economy.
“We closed everything down. That was our public health strategy,” said Cuomo during an Albany press briefing. “If you re-thought that or had time to analyze that public health strategy, I don’t know that you would say ‘Quarantine everyone.'”
“I don’t even know that that was the best public health policy. Young people then quarantined with older people, [it] was probably not the best public health strategy,” he said. “The younger people could have been exposing the older people to an infection.”
So far, New York has clocked 37,258 confirmed cases and 385 deaths from COVID-19.
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So once again Trump was correct
I respect him for questioning his own decisiona. That shows character.
Ya think?
No, what he is doing is sucking up to the people he has visited hardship on. It isn’t sincere, or an indication of character. He is a hard core democrat.
Like many of your spendthrift projects.
I screamed weeks ago that we were isolating the wrong people.....
A criminal psychopath has no “character “...it is an illusion .
So you would have to take an anti body test before returning to work?
Cuomo is backfiring by igniting his pronouncements.
Trump is the only leader the US has right now. He is the only one thinking weeks and months ahead not 1 day at a time. We need to think beyond containing the Virus and make sure the US Economy survives it.
The number of critical cases is 5%. The total number of US Cases is about 85,000. total US population is about 331,000,.000. We cannot destroy the US, and the Worlds, economy out of panic and fear.
There has to start being some rational thoughtful cost benefit analysis. This “fear” mindset we developed over the last few decades needs to be fixed. We throw ourselves into a panic and demand “Government Do SOMETHING” just about weekly over some “crisis” without ever thinking through the costs and problems the “solution” creates. This response to the Virus is the best example
People have to deal with the world as it is right now, not as they wish it would work. There is NOTHING any human can do to make you 100% safe. We need to stop thinking it can be made so.
The US Economy cannot be locked for months without triggering a 2nd Great Depression.
Corporations employ tend of millions of people. Corporations are everything from your local privately own gas station down the street to massive operations like Ford or Delta Airlines.
Corporations have debt they have to play just like people. For example, When they build a new store or plant, they borrow money to finance the capital expense. In addition, they do not usually pay cash for daily supply deliveries. Those are purchased are made on credit with 15-30-45-60 days terms to make payment. All those debt payments still have to be made even thought the Government shut them down or put a lock down on their customers.
Here is an example. I work for a Food Manufacturing corporation that employs about 5,000 people nation wide. Due to the loss of business from the slow down, they just cut all Executive and Sr Management salaries 20%. If this goes one 2 more weeks, they will cut middle management salaries, if it goes on a month they have to cut all salaries. After that they start laying off worker bees like me and shutting down production lines. Why? Because they have to have the money to make their debt payments now and hope they can make it up to employees later.
We are lucky. We are considered an “Essential Business” so we are not shut down like the Airlines or the Car companies. The US, and the World, are on the brink of a financial crisis like nothing seen since the 1929.
Those credit bills have to be paid even if businesses are shut down by Government order. The people supplying them need to be paid so they can pay their suppliers and creditor and so on and so on.
If they are not paid, this will trigger a cascading financial default on scale with what happened in 1929. We not talking about just crashing our economy here, we talking trashing the worlds economy if this is not addressed
The US has to be getting back to work in weeks, not months like the hysteric liars in the professional political class, and their shameless toadies in the Fake News, are trying to convince you.
Trump Curse...
Cuomo cares more about Cuomo than about anything else, and surely not about doing the right thing. He is quite probably the Democratic candidate this year.. thus budget difficulties in New York later are not so important.. and near-term difficulties are Trump's fault.
Therefore the most logical thing for him is to insist on quarantine all the way and use this to show his humane position in contrast with inhuman Trump.
He probably sees something I cannot ... wonder what.
It’s a symptom of a larger problem with him: the constant pontificating and dithering over choices. But you’re right, he does deserve some credit for owing his decisions.
Perfect!
So far, quarantines haven't really worked anywhere. Just ask Italy which has been in countrywide lockdown for weeks, only for the number of deaths to skyrocket.
I’ll give him some credit.
Of course it is easier to do when you know the press will carry your water for you instead of crucifying you as they do with literally everything Trump ever says.
I have made no sales in 2 weeks. It has backfired alright.
Just like his dad, who vacillated a lot on whether to run or not, and finally said no.
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