New York (again)

[B-Man]

 

 

Governor Lockdown

by Daniel John Sobieski

Original Article

 

As I’ve noted before, the politicians and experts telling us to shut up, sit down and stay in our homes under virtual house arrest themselves all have jobs to go to and paychecks to collect. They are essential, we are told, as opposed to you and me and most of America, who are not. Leading the pack is Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York, of which it is now being said -- if you can fake it there, you can fake it anywhere. Cuomo has been faking it as a truthful and competent leader of his state.

 

 

 

 

[B-Man]

 

AL SHARPTON APPROVES THIS MESSAGE: De Blasio blasts Jewish community for massive Brooklyn funeral.

A spokesperson for the NYPD said officers on scene did not ticket or arrest anybody.

 

Jewish community activist Isaac Abraham said the mayoral criticism rang hollow after large crowds congregated across the city earlier on Tuesday to watch the Blue Angels and Thunderbirds fly overhead.

 

“The crowd for the fighter jets today were around longer than the funeral,” Abraham said.

 

He also noted that the funeral was not a last minute event that the city was unaware of.

 

Several NYPD precincts and their community affairs teams helped organize and control the event — setting up five blocks of barricades in advance to help with crowd control.

 

“There’s an old saying. Don’t rain on our parade,” Abraham said. “To run back to City Hall and send a tweet – this is kicking your friend when they’re down. Way down.”

 

 

“Bill de Blasio Is Bringing the Hammer Down on NYC’s Jewish Community,” Beth Baumann writes at Townhall:

De Blasio shouldn’t be calling out a single religious group, especially the Jewish community who has seen an uptick in anti-Semitic attacks lately. It’s why Jews have had to continually arm themselves against anti-Semites. And here we have the mayor, the guy who claims to be all-inclusive, wanting to persecute the very community that he claims he wants to protect.

 

On top of it all, de Blasio has the nerve to say this is about stopping the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus yet he broke his own stay-at-home order and traveled to Brooklyn for a walk. And he had a resident confront him over his hypocrisy.

 

New Yorkers deserve better leadership.

That’s an understatement, as this juxtaposition by Stephen Miller illustrates:

 

 

As Seth Barron writes at City Journal, de Blasio is “The Out-of-Tune Mayor — Presiding over a city spiraling into crisis, Bill de Blasio relies on the same old themes about unfairness and inequality.”

 

 

[3rdnlng]

1 hour ago, B-Man said:

 

 

Governor Lockdown

by Daniel John Sobieski

Original Article

 

As I’ve noted before, the politicians and experts telling us to shut up, sit down and stay in our homes under virtual house arrest themselves all have jobs to go to and paychecks to collect. They are essential, we are told, as opposed to you and me and most of America, who are not. Leading the pack is Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York, of which it is now being said -- if you can fake it there, you can fake it anywhere. Cuomo has been faking it as a truthful and competent leader of his state.

 

 

 

 

It would appear that the House of Representatives is not living up to its responsibilities as comprised of essential workers. They have not returned to work and are in affect earning $174,000 + numerous benefits annually while they have basically put themselves on an unemployed state. 

[Trump_is_Mentally_fit]

Cuomo killing it today! 

 

How much does Kentucky and Florida suck away from the federal tit every year? 

[3rdnlng]

35 minutes ago, Tiberius said:

Cuomo killing it today! 

 

How much does Kentucky and Florida suck away from the federal tit every year? 

Are you advocating to reduce taxes on all those Wall Street mega earners?

[Boatdrinks]

42 minutes ago, Tiberius said:

Cuomo killing it today! 

 

How much does Kentucky and Florida suck away from the federal tit every year? 

The only thing Cuomo is killing is NY State

[Trump_is_Mentally_fit]

2 minutes ago, Boatdrinks said:

The only thing Cuomo is killing is NY State

Oh, you are saying that just because he is so outperforming Trump. Looking like a leader, tackling the crisis head on and working to protect the state. 

 

Trump is talking about injecting disinfectant

[Boatdrinks]

5 minutes ago, Tiberius said:

Oh, you are saying that just because he is so outperforming Trump. Looking like a leader, tackling the crisis head on and working to protect the state. 

 

Trump is talking about injecting disinfectant

He’s working to create a nanny state, and an Anti American one at that. He tramples freedoms and spits on the Constitution as he goes. He was woefully unprepared , has driven the NYs budget into the ground with entitlements and has overseen the worst Covid 19 outcome anywhere. He whines about his ineptitudes and shifts the blame to Trump, so he is celebrated by the lefties. Great Job! Outperforming Trump? That’s a complete joke. Edit : also Trump never said anything about “ injecting disinfectant”. 

Edited April 29, 2020 by Boatdrinks

[Trump_is_Mentally_fit]

1 minute ago, Boatdrinks said:

He’s working to create a nanny state, and an Anti American one at that. He tramples freedoms and spits on the Constitution as he goes. He was woefully unprepared , has driven the NYs budget into the ground with entitlements and has overseen the worst Covid 19 outcome anywhere. He whines about his ineptitudes and shifts the blame to Trump, so he is celebrated by the lefties. Great Job! Outperforming Trump? That’s a complete joke. 

I like how he pointed out how much NY sends to the Federal treasury, and how much Kentucky and Florida suck out, yet McConnel cries about helping blue states, what a typical servant for the Swamp Interest. 

[Boatdrinks]

2 minutes ago, Tiberius said:

I like how he pointed out how much NY sends to the Federal treasury, and how much Kentucky and Florida suck out, yet McConnel cries about helping blue states, what a typical servant for the Swamp Interest. 

I’ll give Cuomo some credit there; a rarity to be sure but I agree with him. McConnel was firing a shot across the bow , letting it be known that the Feds were going to turn off the spigot at some point. Cuomo fires back. This is typical negotiating through the media, and something will get worked out. 

[3rdnlng]

7 minutes ago, Tiberius said:

I like how he pointed out how much NY sends to the Federal treasury, and how much Kentucky and Florida suck out, yet McConnel cries about helping blue states, what a typical servant for the Swamp Interest. 

Are you advocating to reduce taxes on all those Wall Street mega earners?

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[keepthefaith]

14 minutes ago, Tiberius said:

Oh, you are saying that just because he is so outperforming Trump. Looking like a leader, tackling the crisis head on and working to protect the state. 

 

 

 

Really?  How would the NY Gov's fight be going without the aid of the Trump Administration?  Would he have had all his ventilators?  His additional hospital beds and facilities?  A Navy shipped parked in the harbor to handle additional patients?  Would he have had HCQ to give to the neediest patients?  Would he have had additional potential infected travelers form outside the U.S. in his heavily traveled largest city and in NY's smaller cities?  Would he have had test supplies/kits prioritized for his state? 

[Boatdrinks]

1 minute ago, keepthefaith said:

 

Really?  How would the NY Gov's fight be going without the aid of the Trump Administration?  Would he have had all his ventilators?  His additional hospital beds and facilities?  A Navy shipped parked in the harbor to handle additional patients?  Would he have had HCQ to give to the neediest patients?  Would he have had additional potential infected travelers form outside the U.S. in his heavily traveled largest city and in NY's smaller cities?  Would he have had test supplies/kits prioritized for his state? 

Exactly. Cuomo himself called the Federal response to NYS incredible, and I don’t think he was being sarcastic. 

[B-Man]

 

 

[Chef Jim]

50 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

 

Hey can I get one Gov so I don’t have to wrap a dish towel around my head when I go grocery shopping? 

[Koko78]

3 hours ago, B-Man said:

 

AL SHARPTON APPROVES THIS MESSAGE: De Blasio blasts Jewish community for massive Brooklyn funeral.

 

Arrest them... and do what with them? They're not going to jail.

[Wacka]

Why weren't those masks given to first responders? Had to be used in a PR event for King Andrew. I didn't listen, but saw him with them.  I said WTF is that?

Edited April 29, 2020 by Wacka

[3rdnlng]

39 minutes ago, Koko78 said:

 

Arrest them... and do what with them? They're not going to jail.

Fine them.

[B-Man]

2 hours ago, B-Man said:

 

 

 

 

Remember when Cuomo fired back at people who have lost jobs and would like the economy to re-open by telling them to “get an essential job”?

 

Apparently pinning thousands of masks to a board was considered essential work.

 

 

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[B-Man]

 

Anti-COVID Technology Makes Returning to Work Safer

 

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) is allowing upstate construction and assembly line businesses to reopen May 15, but other businesses have to stay shut longer. How long? That depends on how "essential" they are, he said.

 

Sorry, Governor, but any business is essential if it's how you earn your paycheck. People need to work, and new research indicates for otherwise healthy, working-age people, it's safer than taking a car trip.

 

"People under 65 years old have very small risks of COVID-19 deaths even in the hotbeds of the pandemic," according to Stanford scientists John Ioannidis, Cathrine Axfors and Despina Contopoulos-Ioannidis.

 

In New York, 70% of coronavirus deaths are people over 65 years old. In Michigan, it's 79%. And in Washington state, it's 92%.

 

Instead of this pandemic spanning all ages, the coronavirus is a disease that kills one age group gruesomely.

 

In Delaware, 58% of coronavirus deaths have been nursing home residents and their caregivers. In Massachusetts, 55%, in Pennsylvania, 51%, and in New Jersey, 40%.

 

Shutting down the economy didn't stop these deaths. They were predictable. In Italy and Spain, over half of deaths were nursing home residents.

 

Yet, health officials in New York, and most states, rushed to equip hospitals but ignored nursing homes. Without help, these facilities became death pits.

 

Florida was an exception. Governor Ron DeSantis (R) rushed in medical supplies, deployed the National Guard to test residents and cut the nursing home death rate to roughly half New York's.

 

As for younger people, a minuscule 1.8% of New York City coronavirus deaths are otherwise healthy people under 65. We've all seen news reports of a young mother or middle-aged coach tragically killed by coronavirus, but those are exceptions.

 

Plans to reopen should focus on the majority, not these rare exceptions.

 

Step one is opening up large workplaces, including office settings, where employers can proactively improve hygiene. Employers can erect hand sanitizer kiosks every few feet, provide antimicrobial keyboards and desktops and install continuous disinfection devices in the central air systems to reduce viral contamination. These technologies are already used in professional sports teams' locker rooms and manufacturing facilities. The upside is a healthier workforce and lower absenteeism even if the virus doesn't come back.

 

Air travel can be made more hygienic by installing hand sanitizer dispensers near the touchscreens, jetways and security lines. Airlines are requiring masks, but the airport is the problem, according to MIT researchers. They estimate that installing hand sanitizers at the world's Top 10 airports could reduce pandemic risk by 37%. If all airports had them, the risk would go down 70%. New York's Port Authority could take the lead at the region's three airports.

Similarly, hand sanitizers on subway platforms would improve safety for straphangers.

 

New York City mass transit is facing a double health crisis, posed by the virus and by an influx of homeless using the cars as toilets and sleeping quarters. COVID-19 can survive on stainless steel for at least 48 hours, according to the New England Journal of Medicine. Most bacteria survive even longer, weeks in some cases.

 

MTA workers manually scrub subway cars every two or three days. That's better than nothing, but barely. Applying antimicrobial coatings to subway poles and seats would continuously kill traces of the coronavirus and bacteria.

 

Nature Research reported Monday that the coronavirus particles linger in the air for hours when spaces are crowded and ventilation is limited. Think subway cars and Grand Central Station at rush hour. New technologies can continuously reduce that viral burden.

 

President Donald Trump has marshaled the private sector to cure the ventilator shortage and produce masks, medicines and vaccines. He features problem-solving CEOs at his briefings. It's time to deploy innovative technologies to make going back to work safer.

 

Many workers are fearful, reports Fishbowl. No surprise. They've been bombarded with daily death reports that ignore age or health status.

 

Reopening the economy should be guided by facts. And the fact is working-age people seldom die from the coronavirus. With precautions in place, they can go back to work.

 

https://townhall.com/columnists/betsymccaughey/2020/04/29/anticovid-technology-makes-returning-to-work-safer-n2567806