Posted on 03/30/2020 7:07:00 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
The Poconos region -- particularly Monroe County -- is being called a "hot zone" for the coronavirus pandemic.
The president of St. Luke's Hospital's Monroe Campus, Don Seiple, said the the Poconos' close ties to New York City, the nation's virus epicenter, will likely lead a much larger increase in cases locally unless something is done soon.
---SNIP--- Those traveling from New York City are now supposed to self-quarantine for two weeks. However, Seiple said, plenty of people have already been exposed.
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Don’t forget De Blasio saying not to take any special precautions, go and head to theaters, take the subway, congregate etc.
And because of New Yawkers, much of the poconos has become a gang-ridden cess pool.
Monroe is my county, yay!
It was nazi bastard Herr Wilhelm who told NYCers to go on vacation, leave the city and go “normal” about their lives, 1-2 weeks ago, contrary to CDC/NIH/POTUS advice and guidelines. They fled like fleas from a dog’s chemical bath.
If I was PA Gov, I’d have stationed PANG at all NY-NJ-PA crossings, and warned, then shot all tresspassers. They’ve now infected my state; ditto with Filthadelphia. It’s going to get real ugly here, when it peaks in 1-3 weeks. I pity the locals in the Poconos.
Looking around for a house in the area.
It's only gotten worse. I'm hearing lots of complaints about New Yorkers coming to their summer homes, being loud, demanding and outright rude to clerks, disregarding social distancing & quarantining (coughing in the aisles of the CVS and grocery store),
The Jersey shore is similarly upset, with the so-called "Bennies" bringing disease and soaking up resources. The shore stores in the winter are not stocked or staffed at summer-time levels
Cape May / Wildwood had its first case, and it was a New Yorker. They're fit to be tied.
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Yep. NYC created their mess, they can live wit it. NO other major city (i.e. Chicago, Boston, DC) has the number of cases they do despite having similar public transport(bus and subway), airports for long distance travel and living conditions, etc.
DeBlasio refused to close the schools. At end of Feb three teachers returned to class from midwinter break. Bothered by fevers and coughs they tested positive. They had been in classes with kids who went to classes with other kids. There are 6,000 kids at the school, Brooklyn Tech, one of the city’s crown jewels. These kids come from all over taking mass transit. DeBlasio closed the school one day to clean. His chancellor told principals that no teacher or student who tested positive was to be reported to the Board of Health. Where did NYC’s numbers come from. DeBlasio and Brooklyn Tech is a good place to start.
Everything you cited made things worse.
But “patient zero” for New York was a lawyer who commuted from New Rochelle to Manhattan on the train.
He got off every morning in Grand Central Station.
The rest...is history.
I always knew he was an idiot, but not reporting WuFlu cases of teachers to the Health Dept is a huge screw up. I winder if any of those teachers traveled over break?
Took the family to Hershey Park once and from all of the voices around me it appeared half of Brooklyn was there.
What area exactly, some are bad news. Our real estate agent steered us away from the bad places.
:) Looking for lakefront in that area.Have to sell the shore place first.Put it on the market and the next day was the stay in place.Gotta love it.People can not even do walk throughs there or here in Bucks County.We are in no hurry.((((Hugs))))
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