Don’t expect this to be over anytime soon, New Yorkers.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Friday that all “non-essential permitted events” in May are cancelled, such as parades, concerts, and rallies, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Bill de Blasio announced on Friday that all “non-essential permitted events” in May are cancelled […] “We’ve got a lot to get done to be safe for June, and we are far from out of the woods,” de Blasio said.
Good.
Would not have hurt to add this: Six feet apart, not six feet under.
(Paraphrased from Gov. Whitmer.)
Well done
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Friday that all “non-essential permitted events” in May are cancelled, such as parades, concerts, and rallies, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Good to take seriously Covid-19’s transmissibility and mortality rates!
US accounts for 1/3 of worldwide infection and has a mortality ratio of 4.9%
This is what true competent leadership looks like.
Short-term pain for a long-term gain.
I hate to say it, but outside of the major cities, I suspect the country is going to lose discipline and call it quits around July. We may make it through May, there will be significant grumbling in June and small pockets of rebellion, but by July, fueled by the lack of 4th of July parades, fireworks, and gatherings, the dam will burst and we’re going to have a lot of dead people by November.
That’s the “second wave” that epidimiologists greatly fear. The second wave of a pandemic is often more deadly than the first wave. Just look at the 1918 Flu.
Trump is hitched to the news cycle. Right now, the Lies are still viable enough.
The news cycle of the second wave will render his lies much less useful.
The hard part is that it’s just now making it’s presence felt in parts of the country that are already tired of the lock down - or see it as someone else’s problem. My state of Indiana has been on lock down for about a month, but if you drive through the small towns and cities it already seems to be business as usual. Insanity.
I’d only argue with the “outside of the major cities” bit. If anything, I think there is high potential there for major unrest as we get closer to summer, with more nice weather out, and people stuffed in apartments who aren’t allowed to go anywhere.
Only one man can truly guide NYC through this crisis.
That man? Frank Stallone.
Yeah … the impact is just so much more visceral in a big city that I think they may tamp it down longer, but they could easily just throw their hands up and say f-it…
Which will be exactly how we end up in that spiral. The more forceful the crackdown the more the people will get restless.
We already see the rumblings out of New York, people noting that everyone who could escape to a second home did, so it’s all of the poor and middle class who are being left behind in the death zone…
Really feels like we’re France circa 1789.
Had to check if that was real… Seriously, “and save your great 2nd Amendment.”…
It’s a literal call for civil fucking war. If any of us normal folk posted that, the SS would be banging on the door inside of 5 minutes.
OT: My kingdom for a non-corrupt Republican. This situation calls for a thorough House investigation.
I also had to check to see if these tweets were real.
I wasn’t about to trust @castor_troy to do the checking for me!.
The SS? Or the Secret Service?
These days, who knows if there’s a difference anymore…
