[ April 27, 2024 ]
Cuomo is jumping the shark. NYC is going from bad to absolutely mad. People that go outside and enjoy themselves show the media that the fear mongering is nonsense.
Closing streets and parks so that people social distance? Madness. People are going to revolt.
Coronavirus: New York City weighs closing parks, playgrounds and streets to enforce social distancing, Gov. Cuomo says
By: Berkeley Lovelace Jr., William Feuer, CNBC, March Mar 25 2020;
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- New York state and city officials plan to close some streets in the nation’s largest city, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said.
- He also said they may close parks and playgrounds to contain the coronavirus outbreak.
- He said the $2 trillion federal stimulus deal Congress reached early Wednesday carves out $3.8 billion for New York state, and that won’t be enough.
- “The hole is as high as $15 billion. How do you plug a $15 billion hole with $3.8 billion? You don’t,” he said.
New York state and city officials plan to close some streets in the nation’s largest city and may close parks and playgrounds there to contain the coronavirus outbreak as cases across the state surge to 30,811, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday.
State and local officials are taking a tougher line to enforce social distancing recommendations. He said city residents aren’t following the state’s guidelines encouraging people to maintain a distance of at least 6 feet from each other, which he said was “effective and necessary” to slow hospitalization rates.
“The plan is going to pilot closing streets in New York City because we have much less traffic in New York City. We have many fewer vehicles in New York City,” he said at a press conference in Albany. He said that by opening the streets, fewer people will congregate in the parks. “People want to walk. They want to go out and get some air. You want a less dense area, so pilot closing streets to cars, opening streets to pedestrians.”
The state’s hospitalization rate is “moving faster than initial estimates,” he said, adding that health officials project that 140,000 people will be hospitalized with the coronavirus over the next 14 to 21 days. The state previously said it would need 110,000 beds for COVID-19 patients by early to mid-May.
More than 3,800 people have already been hospitalized with COVID-19 across the state and 888 are in the ICU, Cuomo said.
The Army Corps of Engineers is building several temporary hospitals to house up to 4,000 COVID-19 patients throughout the state, which has just 53,000 hospital beds. That still won’t be enough., the governor said. He also estimates the state will need 40,000 ICU beds at the peak of the outbreak. It currently has only 3,000.
Cuomo encouraged residents to seek out counseling if they are feeling anxious, adding that the state has more than 6,000 mental health professionals on hand and is setting up a mental health hotline for residents. People shouldn’t “underestimate” the impact of “emotional trauma,” he said.
The city is the epicenter of a major outbreak in New York state, where cases have been doubling every three days and now account for more than half of all U.S. cases. New York City accounts for 17,856 cases. Cuomo said health officials have tested 103,470 people across the state, including 44,076 in the city. The state has already spent $1 billion fighting the pandemic and estimates it will cost roughly $15 billion total, Cuomo said.
The $2 trillion federal stimulus deal Congress reached early Wednesday carves out $3.8 billion for New York state, which Cuomo said won’t be enough.
“The hole is as high as $15 billion. How do you plug a $15 billion hole with $3.8 billion? You don’t,” he said.
White House officials on Tuesday urged anyone leaving the New York City metropolitan area to self-isolate and monitor themselves carefully for 14 days. President Donald Trump called the region a “hot spot” for coronavirus cases.
“We remain deeply concerned about New York City and the New York metro area,” Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House’s coronavirus response coordinator, said at a press briefing Tuesday. She said about 56% of all U.S. cases and 31% of all fatalities in the United States are concentrated in the metropolitan area.
The New York metro area, which includes New Jersey, Long Island and southern Connecticut, also has the highest “attack rate” in the country with nearly 1 in 1,000 people in the region contracting the virus. The attack rate is the portion of the population that gets infected.
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24 Comments
4 years ago
DENSE URBAN AREAS will self-implode FIRST.
All those CONSUMERS … making nothing … consuming all they need and want.
What is grown or produced in NYC, to sustain life there?
…
If trucks stopped arriving, how many days would NYC survive?
No meat, no vegetables, no fruit, no diapers or TP, no Perrier water …
Then, no gasoline, no natural gas for heating, no electricity …
…
Expect looting, rioting, robberies (more than today), shootings, home self-defense …
A virus, or an EMP (electro-magnetic pulse) would cause devastating fatalities ..
Want an apocalyptic fictional description of post-EMP life ??
4 years ago
Reply to
James Randolph
But it’s not like mankind didn’t live for thousands of years without electricity or that other primates have lived forever without electricity.
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
It is reasonable to suspect the CCP has a well-planned massive round two to launch against the USA and the West. Having launched the most horrific WMD in modern history and gotten away with it they will launch a second attack very soon. Will it be an EMP? Possibly, and launched by the NK or possibly Iran with CCP assistance. We really need to nuke the CCP out of existence today before they can launch a second attack against us and the West.
4 years ago
Reply to
John Acord
Military action is one way …
BUT … what if the USA just defaulted on all those loans CHINA is holding?
I would guess that CHINA has a few trillion dollars of USA debt and cash…
Just “walk away” and leave the CHINA economy to implode.
See you in World Court around 2030 or so ..
BONUS: Confiscate all CHINA-OWNED property in the USA for homeless housing ..
Thank you CHINA, for solving the USA homeless crisis ..
4 years ago
Reply to
James Randolph
The Housing crisis is primarily the result of widespread drug abuse and Commicrat zoning ordinances that make low-cost housing virtually impossible to construct.
4 years ago
Reply to
John Acord
The worse China was hit the more dangerous they are. Only internal strife can curb then.
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
In case it has escaped your notice primates did not invent electricity and all the wonderful benefits that have developed from it. A human being invented it. Have you ever seen primate using a smart phone?
4 years ago
Reply to
leonore35
So you are saying that humans are not primates, did not evolve from primates?
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
Life expectancy of …….. 30??
Not sure mankind would willingly return to pre-industrial economy or no internet !
4 years ago
The people will be made to comply!
4 years ago
meanwhile in chicongo, murder has taken more lives than coronavirus
4 years ago
Off topic:
Those of us who work in health care/hospitals are kinda on the front line with COVID worries in the back of almost everyone’s minds. Now this, from NewsMax dot com, will give us all, and many Americans as well, even more to think and worry about:
“Terrorists might potentially take advantage of the global coronavirus pandemic and plot attacks on Americans and stressed U.S. healthcare facilities, a Department of Homeland Security memo warns.
“Violent extremists probably are seeking to exploit public fears associated with the spread of COVID-19 to incite violence, intimidate targets, and promote their ideologies, and we assess these efforts will intensify in the coming months,” a DHS intelligence bulletin read, ABC News reported.”
On the bright side…..they could just be talking about the democRAT party…..
4 years ago
More people are being killed in car accidents than this round of flu. When are we going back to horse and buggy days?
4 years ago
Reply to
Mark
The Commiecrats won’t allow horses because of the environmental degradation they cause, so its just back to walking and harvesting by hand.
4 years ago
A lot of NYC cops are calling in “sick.” How does Cuomo The Witless plan to enforce this insanity?
4 years ago
It appears the mantra “Diversity is Our Strength” didn’t workout too well for NYC. Perhaps, a little less diversity is in the cards? Or, just perhaps,its working out terrifically for the rest of us.
4 years ago
NYC Parks are too dangerous to visit anyway.
4 years ago
Cuomo’s failed policies put NY in line for drastic actions such as this, He is the basis for the many problems of NY City. When will you NY’ers lean.
4 years ago
Did anyone really think New Yorkers would listen to this – look who they elected as “mayor”?
