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You also don't win if you don't complete passes.

Or this could be another haphazard action by Trump that would have been easy for the courts to overturn. Sometimes, he's his worst enemy.

To clarify, he's missing a public compassion gene, which is natural for nearly all politicians. that's what makes it so easy for the media to hammer him. Magox explained it well, above.

There are definitely issues with USPS deliveries from any online seller. I've noticed that many packages get stuck in sorting or local facilities, as apparently they're lower priority, and it could take over a week for USPS to get around to delivering it.

Yup. He doesn't have a compassion gene and only operates on one speed in one direction. At times like this, it's a huge detriment that he can't pivot.

Lost in the idiot's ramblings are positive developments with the Moderna vaccine.

Great way to spread the word by only showing content to subscribers.

You do recognize the importance of the April 7th date, right? It was still early on. If NY asked for that capacity sooner, it would have been provided to them. Yet, NY asked for the space, it was given, but not used.

There's no difference

How does it feel to always be wrong? Must really suck.

That's the issue though. The cases should have been transferred to those places and not infect the other hospitals and nursing homes. They were transferring sick patients all over the hospital system and made a bad situation worse.

The federal government does not have the capacity or resources to be the primary responder. Everything you mentioned is an after the fact event. It's the same with a pandemic response, as it is with disaster recovery. The Feds come in for the clean up. They are useless in fighting the outbreak. But to address the point directly, there were federal resources thrown at NY, including the hospital ship and help with setting up Javits. Yet, NY did not use those resources and continued to cycle the infected patients through hospitals and nursing homes. Imagine how many more lives would have been saved if the sick were sent to the ship or to Javits?

Hey, @SectionC3, do these parents count in your "qualification" definition?

Yes it is hindsight, but all travel restrictions and lock downs were too late. The main point is how to handle a pandemic once it hits the shores, and in the US, Federalism hinders the responses because you have 50+ different levels of incompetence, and the most virulent strain happened to hit a Fubared city & state.

How many times does federalism need to be explained to you? The federal government is not the primary responder. If you want to make an argument that USA's system of governing is not ideal when dealing with a crisis like this, which puts the primary burden on local and state governments, then we can discuss it. But then you would have to acknowledge that there is a huge difference in how the various states handled the crisis, and why NYS was exceptionally bad. Note that it's not a blue and red issue, because CA & WA did a much better job in early containment. I responded. You ignored it. Have you disparaged a black person intellect today yet?

Wrong on the facts, as usual

As usual, the articles focus on the resurgence of the cases, but not the severity of the outbreak. Israel is going on 2+ months since a rapid reopening, with cases surging. Yet, the severity is relatively mild.

Cuomo & DiBlasio didn't correct the mistakes, because the nursing home admittance policy was still in place by late May. The cases are down because the virus barreled through the tristate and it's almost certain that we have herd immunity here now. NY & NJ paid the ultimate price to get to where it is now, but it wasn't because mistakes were corrected in time. You're also ignoring the mixed messages NYS officials were giving the Fed response teams in February about the state's readiness for the pandemic.

WTF was this?

Not quite correct. The treatment procedures were still being figured out in March & April, but containment protocols were pretty clear, especially after what happened in Italy. Yet, NY repeated all of Italy's mistakes. Starting from the cluster of not taking the threat seriously enough through March, infighting between Cuomo and the big idiot, then cross contaminating multiple hospitals drove the carnage in NY. If you care to look at the numbers, no states other than NJ are approximating NY's deadly results. The other states have certainly figured out how to minimize the severity of the outbreak and reduced deaths dramatically.

NY got hit hard for 3 reasons - deadly virus strain, densely populated area that is highly dependent on mass transit AND highly incompetent leadership that didn't take the threat seriously and then screwed it all up.

The first recorded case was in CA, and the first major outbreak was in WA. NY got the more deadly Wuhan strain through the EU.

You are a subhuman scum.

Except the virus did not first enter the densest area. But when the virus did enter the densest area, we were told to go to a parade and enjoy a dinner and a movie.

Exactly what part is disgusting?