To hell with NYC. They elected the incompetent communist so let them suffer. Not sure why my money should bail those smug arrogant a..holes out. I’ve never found a group of people more self satisfied and with a higher opinion of themselves with less reason to be than New Yorkers.
They made their own problems so much worse by letting those subways continue to run the entire time. Eventually of course the people got wise and stopped riding them (in part because there was nowhere to go!) but the subway was probably the #1 way in which the virus spread. And Deblowhard was encouraging people to come into the city even in March when they were predicting 2 million deaths!
And “epidemiologists” have known for 2500 years that this is how diseases spread. The Roman Empire was ingenious in that they built roads and aqueducts to enlarge their reach, incorporate territory, aid in commerce and military deployment etc. But these roads also made it very easy for plague infected rodents to come down from the woods and into the cities. Mass transit = mass transmission of diseases. We’ve known this for 1000s of years. They knew the disease was highly contagious person to person but never took any mitigating factors to keep the trains and subways clean, limited, socially distant etc. Didn’t even limit ridership to essential personnel.
Now we find out, maybe half the deaths in NY were due to their idiotic nursing home policies that kept visitors out to prevent disease, while ordering infected elderly into the homes! Mere incompetence doesn’t explain the inconsistencies here. They made so many egregious errors - and this is why they continue to deflect by blaming Trump. As if Trump could order NY to shut its own train system and decide who to admit into nursing homes.