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34 minutes ago, Buffalo_Gal said:

 

I am sorry but how did $70 million get paid without materials being delivered? I am betting the materials arrived but something is wrong with them, which is not much better but gov't usually do the slow walk to pay.

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On 5/13/2020 at 10:56 AM, B-Man said:

 

Manhattan Faces a Reckoning if Working From Home Becomes the Norm. 

 

“Even after the crisis eases, companies may let workers stay home.

 

That would affect an entire ecosystem, from transit to restaurants to shops. Not to mention the tax base.”

 

 

Well, thank goodness we have public sector unions to protect the most essential workers of all!!!

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5 hours ago, Buffalo Timmy said:

I am sorry but how did $70 million get paid without materials being delivered? I am betting the materials arrived but something is wrong with them, which is not much better but gov't usually do the slow walk to pay.

Jokes on you. It was only 69 mil

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1 hour ago, B-Man said:

 

 

"Government can't keep you safe"- Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Today 5/15

 

I totally agree!

 

So...why are we still in lockdown until June 13?

 

 

 

 

...something seems to be contradictory............

Phase 1 of reopening starts in Rochester area, but 'by no means are we out of the woods'

 
Brian Sharp, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle Published 9:47 a.m. ET May 15, 2020 | Updated 3:22 p.m. ET May 15, 2020
 

Monroe County had more active cases of the novel coronavirus and more residents hospitalized as it began a phased reopening Friday than at any point in the pandemic.

The local numbers drove an uptick in hospitalizations for the nine-county Finger Lakes region.

But while acknowledging "some surprises, if you will, in the last few days," Monroe County Public Health Commissioner Dr. Michael Mendoza said Friday that the data show no evidence of a surge. Regional numbers have declined overall, since peaking last month. The Monroe County curve has flattened. The number of patients in the ICU has remained steady.

"By no means are we out of the woods," Mendoza said, adding: "We need to look at the next weeks and months, frankly, with a lot of pause, a lot of thoughtfulness."

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has pointed to data as driving the decisions to begin reopening some manufacturing, construction and other businesses here and in select regions across the state. 

https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2020/05/15/phase-1-reopening-ny-coronavirus-cases-hospitalizations-going-up/5191995002/

 

State, local beaches may open Friday before Memorial Day weekend

WHECTV
Updated: May 15, 2020 01:56 PM
Created: May 15, 2020 11:54 AM

ALBANY, N.Y. (WHEC) — State and local beaches and lakeshores may open Friday before Memorial Day weekend, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Friday. 

The governor stated that in order to open, each location must meet these minimum conditions: 

  • Mandating no more than 50% capacity, by ensuring controlled exits/ entrances, limiting parking. 
  • Prohibiting group contact activities, including sports (e.g. volleyball, football).
  • Keeping areas of social gathering closed (e.g. designated picnic areas, playgrounds, pavilions, arcades and amusement rides).
  • Enforcing social distancing measures for both employees and visitors.
  • Requiring masks to be worn of all employees and visitors when social distancing is not possible.
  • Closing concessions.
  • Ensuring staff levels are adequate to achieve these measures and enforce crowd control.

Cuomo also announced that while beaches run by cities, towns and counties may open on Friday, May 22, they can also decide to remain close.

Locally, the City of Rochester has said that Durand-Eastman Beach and trails have always been open for passive recreation. Durand has not been open for swimming the past couple of years and "nothing is changing from the city's perspective."

 

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New York's Terrible Decisions on Wuhan Coronavirus Screwed the Rest of America

by Katie Pavlich

 

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The curve of Wuhan coronavirus cases across the country has flattened and cities are slowly coming out of stay-at-home orders. Businesses are opening back up and people are doing what they can to return to normalcy. But the bad decisions made by politicians in the hardest-hit areas, specifically New York, should not go unnoticed as we start to pull away from the pandemic.

 

 

 

 

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Andrew Cuomo in All His Ugliness

by Mario Alexis Portella

 

Original Article

 

 

 

 

Cuomo can't conceal his glee at news of defiant barber spreading COVID-19

by Monica Showalter

 

Original Article

 

New York's embattled governor, Andrew Cuomo, announced that an upstate barber who violated quarantine, caught COVID-19, and then spread it to others, is reason enough for More Lockdown. He said it with an impressive combination of coldness and glee, looking like some kind of hard-faced Caligula-like character. Let them hate me so long as they fear me.

 

Here's the NBC YouTube: Reporter: "...I mean, seriously, they have to pay for their food, they have to pay for their buildings, even, you know, month to month, and they're not getting any income...

 

" Cuomo: 'Yeah, how about the story about the hair stylist in Kingston" (A little twinkle comes to his eye,)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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2 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

 

NOTHING THAT MASSIVE BUREAUCRAT-LAYOFFS AND DEREGULATION WON’T FIX: 

 

New York Tax Revenue Plummets 68% in April, State Comptroller Says.

 

Don’t bail ’em out. Let them live with their choices.

 

 

What a load of crapola.  The reason they've collected less is because of the delay in income tax filing.  They are talking about 2019 income tax revenue which has what the ***** all to do with Coronavirus?

 

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The Empire State collected $3.7 billion, or $7.9 billion less than the previous April. Personal income-tax revenue fell more than $7 billion from last April, a drop that was primarily due to the delayed tax filing deadline.

 

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6 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 


If vulnerable people are going to die from this virus no matter what, why is NYS still closed?  Who is the closure protecting? There are now open hospital beds, there are treatments, there are unused ventilators. If he expects the vulnerable to die from COVID-19 no matter what, why incur the deaths that will come from being shut down?

I hope he is wrong about  the "no matter what" part, if those were his exact words. :(

 

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49 minutes ago, Buffalo_Gal said:


If vulnerable people are going to die from this virus no matter what, why is NYS still closed?  Who is the closure protecting? There are now open hospital beds, there are treatments, there are unused ventilators. If he expects the vulnerable to die from COVID-19 no matter what, why incur the deaths that will come from being shut down?

I hope he is wrong about  the "no matter what" part, if those were his exact words. :(

 

I agree with your statements and questions here. As for Cuomo , If he has said that , it will be one of the few things I’ve agreed with him on thus far. Perhaps he has recently come around to admitting that reality. While I’m sure anyone would want it to be untrue, it’s just the fact we must deal with. 

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10 hours ago, OldTimeAFLGuy said:

...c'mon Jimbo, you're a helluva lot more astute than that......he already has my 26 grand for 2019 income taxes......but why include facts when you want 61 billion bailout from the Feds for Covid-19 (COUGH)??.....how about Big Fredo's SIX trips to Puerto Rico to emphasize with them for Trump's lack of hurricane support?...92 BILLION wasn't enough?...how many PR politicians have been arrested or how about billions in supplies in warehouses undistributed?......or how about Big Fredo's lawsuit for Trump's tax returns?.....shall we say FFF as in "Financially Fraudulent Fredo"?....naw I'm TOO harsh.........

You gave the state of NY 26K? Do you mean counting income and property or just income? If just income move to Florida with me and save 26K a year and then even more on property taxes

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11 hours ago, B-Man said:

 

 

Vulnerable people are going to die has been a true statement this whole time and is true in almost any dangerous situation.

 

The problem arises when another person's actions or decisions directly place vulnerable people in those deadly situations.  Words like culpability and negligence might come into play.  

 

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GOV. CUOMO EXCUSES HIMSELF

 

New York has been by far the worst center of Wuhan virus infection in the U.S., and it seems clear that New York’s governor, Andy Cuomo, has done a terrible job. Among other things, he went out of his way to force New York’s nursing homes to accept residents who had tested positive for COVID-19, an absolutely irrational act that killed thousands, which he has since rescinded.

 

Nevertheless, even as his incompetence cost thousands of lives, Cuomo has adopted a pose of moral superiority, aided and abetted by the press: “If it saves just one life,” Cuomo notoriously said, damaging and, in many cases, destroying the lives of millions of New Yorkers was worth it.

 

But facts are inexorable, and Cuomo has now changed his tune. In a press conference today, he urged universal forgiveness:

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Sunday addressed the state’s early response to the coronavirus outbreak and said “nobody” should be prosecuted for the those who died, noting that “older people” were most vulnerable. The governor has been criticized for a decision in March, which has since been reversed, to send patients back to nursing homes after they tested positive for COVID-19.

 

More than 4,800 people died from COVID-19 in nursing homes in the state between March 1 and May 1, according to a tally released by the Cuomo administration on May 1. Cuomo has called nursing homes a “feeding frenzy” for the coronavirus.

 

“Despite whatever you do, because with all our progress as a society, we can’t keep everyone alive,” Cuomo said.

 

Huh. Interesting that Andy “If it saves one life” Cuomo should finally figure that out.

 

 

More at the link.......

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