Two Coasts. One Virus. How New
York Suffered Nearly 10 Times
the Number of Deaths as California.
ProPublica,
by
Joe Sexton
&
Joaquin Sapien
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
5/17/2020 5:05:18 AM
By March 14, London Breed, the mayor of San Francisco, had seen enough. For weeks, she and her health officials had looked at data showing the evolving threat of COVID-19. In response, she’d issued a series of orders limiting the size of public gatherings, each one feeling more arbitrary than the last. She’d been persuaded that her city’s considerable and highly regarded health care system might be insufficient for the looming onslaught of infection and death.
“We need to shut this s*** down,” Breed remembered thinking.
Three days later in New York, Mayor Bill de Blasio was thinking much the same thing. He’d been publicly savaged
Reply 1 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 5/17/2020 5:57:14 AM (No. 413317)
Why did New York suffer so much? Andy Cuomo and Bill de Blasio, liberal tyrants, with supposedly the best of intentions, arrogantly (per standard liberal playbook) did everything wrong.
Per Reagan:"The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.". But even moreso, our "liberal friends" INSIST on taking actions that explode in OUR faces. THEN they refuse to accept responsibility for the YUGE messes they make. THEN they want a do over, doubling down on stupid and expensive. They never seem to learn that failure can mean that you are doing things the wrong way. They are completely invested in "Our way or the highway.".
Per NY's "plans": "A plan on a piece of paper that doesn’t have an operational part means nothing". BTW, this is what happened with dem's Common Core as well. They outlined their goals but had NO idea how they would accomplish them. Individual school districts were left to figure it out, often finding "You can't get theya from heah".
Trump followed an excellent playbook. He made the federal government the source of recommendations and the last ditch source of supplies but correctly said that the proper responsibility is on the state and local governments. When Cuomo and de Blasio went their own way, it was all on them, no matter how much Cuomo whined. Trump gave them a hospital ship, field hospitals, PPE, and ventilators of sufficient amounts but not as many as they CLAIMED they needed. The resources were under utilized, showing Trump got it right. The NY rulers can claim that Trump should have stepped up but that is clearly NOT the federalist model. The state and city OWNED this mess and there is no way they can get away from their lack of preparedness. Meanwhile, while not technically responsible, the federal government met all the reasonable needs.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Lazyman 5/17/2020 7:45:59 AM (No. 413398)
Poor NY, who didn't vote like their life depended on it but it did.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
lakerman1 5/17/2020 9:53:00 AM (No. 413544)
Little Andrew Cuomo squandered huge sums of NYS money to chase rainbows of the new green deal.
750 million dollars spent on a facory in Buffalo to produce solar panels has been shut down. Two nanotechnology centers - one in Syracuse, empty, one in albany where the director was sent to prison.
but cuomo didn't spend money on medical supplies, equipment including ventilators. nothing green about those things.
cuomo is a fraud, blathering on and on, faithfully covered by MSNBC. wilhelm Warren, Mayor of NYC is a bigger fraud.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
stablemoney 5/17/2020 11:00:09 AM (No. 413613)
I think it is past time for Ca. and NY to take care of their problems.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 5/17/2020 11:24:52 AM (No. 413633)
Sloppy, incompetent governing, and severely crowded urban blight in NY. Even if there is a lot of population in LA, etc, the fact is, the city is still spread out in a way that doesn't cluster the virus and virus carriers into tight corners like NYC. That is why the current foot dragging by the blue state commissars is so darn frustrating right now. They are using a model for their state that doesn't mean diddly.
It is apples and oranges, and the Commissars love the power they are tasting right now. If Trump wants to save this nation's economy and his political hide, he needs to step up to the plate. Enough fear mongering, panic and 'experts' who are determined to take him and us out. If the nation's economy isn't in the national interest and his job to protect, then nothing is.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 5/17/2020 2:11:21 PM (No. 413819)
Jammed subways, jammed commuter trains, jammed sidewalks, jammed elevators, jammed restaurants at lunch and total morons as mayor and governor.....that's how it happens.
Live in an ant colony....disease spreads like wildfire. Put fools in charge - the already bad situation is made far worse.
I have never been comfortable about ANYTHING in NYC, always wanted to leave, and the sooner the better when I went for business and tourism a number of times of the years. I will likely never go again.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 5/18/2020 1:02:27 AM (No. 414230)
The article contends that rapid lockdown in CA made the difference. That's not the answer. NYC cannot be compared to San Francisco to LA. other than that they are liberal cities near the ocean. There are so many other factors - population density, demographics, use of public transit, weather.
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