Whose fault is it that some governors are better in advocating for their people than other governors? Is it really New York’s fault that Florida’s government is failing Floridians?
The ENTIRE STATE of NY had positive rate of almost 30% in the last 24 hours. Your anger is really misplaced. Feel free to compare the number of dead people, people in the hospitals, etc … but none of that is NY fault.
Again, so we are OK with the idea that the fastest, wealthiest, strongest states/people get and keep the scarce resources? There are apparently 500,000 swabs now available to make tests possible. Should one state get more of those based on influence? Maybe we should auction them to the highest bidder so the football players can get tested.
I just want to understand how that plays out. It really is everyone grab what they can and that’s how we work now?
If that’s true, you need to be prepared to wall off your area then. Or the other areas will eventually spread their infections back to you or even worse, come to get the resources.
I don’t think that’s how Americans as a whole used to think, but if that’s how NY views this, the rest of the states should understand so they know how to vote and operate in the future.
My mom was unscathed by polio, and while her brother also survived he continues to limp. There are fuzzy memories for her of friends who were mysteriously gone from their families without a good bye. It was that childhood of strange times not even grown ups understood, her infallible father anxious, her mother speechless in tears, her brother suddenly missing from her life and then returning just as mysteriously, while others never returned that led her into nursing.
I have faith we will make it through this, too. But let’s make sure at the end, we know each of us has done all we can.
There you go again… a pointless argument. You need to direct your anger where it matters. And that’s square at your own state’s leadership. It – and NOT NY – is failing you!
Can we please stop bickering? I would like this thread to stay open.
Costco is refusing returns on high-demand items including toilet paper, wipes, and rice: https://www.today.com/food/costco-not-allowing-returns-high-demand-items-toilet-paper-t176417
Thanks for the link, it will take me a while to read
No, please hear me. The federal government should be helping you. New Yorkers pay tax dollars to the federal government and those funds should definitely be going to help Florida.
As for the swabs, New York did not go to Italy and get swabs. The US Air Force did. I have no idea how those are distributed, but again, that’s not up to New York. It’s up to the federal government. They decide and they are the ones who need to answer the questions about who gets swabs and why.
It is never pointless to examine if we’re handling this correctly because it’s still happening and maybe we can make a difference.
The answer isn’t to fight harder for our own share, it’s to urge people at both an individual level and a higher level to work together to solve this. That means some people with resources or advantages (maybe a wealthy, connected state or athletes or young, healthy spring breakers) have to be open to discussing how to sacrifice or share. Not telling the other states or the 80 year olds to fight harder, be smarter, or suck it up.
Just like I’m talking to the politicians in my state, others should be talking to the politicians in theirs - telling them to work together, not to fight harder to suck up the few remaining resources.
I saw the sign at our Costco notifying members that they will not take returns on what I term ‘panic items’.
GOOD FOR THEM. It irks me to no end, when in normal times, people return TV’s after the Super Bowl, Christmas trees that are dead and BBQs at the end of summer.
Didn’t N.Y. act early to develop their own test so they wouldn’t have to depend on the CDC?
Cuomo has shut down all non-essential commerce and travel, an dis threatening fines for non-compliance.
Meanwhile, the governor of Florida is still refusing to close the state’s beaches.
Why on earth would people be returning staples to Costco like tp, rice, etc? Is this because people thought they could resell but then couldn’t, I wonder?
Yes. This is exactly it.
For example, this happened right by me - a man was selling toilet paper for $60/pack out of his car.
https://www.wxyz.com/news/person-caught-selling-cases-of-toilet-paper-for-60-in-canton
Medical organization calls on Trump administration to address “critical shortages” of equipment and tests
From CNN’s Arman Azad
The American Medical Association has called on the Trump administration to “leverage every tool at its disposal” to address a shortage of protective equipment and coronavirus tests.
In a statement Friday, the doctors’ group said that “critical shortages in test kits and personal protective equipment (PPE) remain unaddressed.”
In response to the growing shortage, President Trump signed an executive order earlier this week that allows him to exercise wartime powers under the Defense Production Act, but the AMA said that “it is unclear to what degree that authority is being utilized.”
Shortages of critical protective equipment are “posing a significant risk for our ability to treat COVID-19 patients and contain the spread of this pandemic,” the AMA said in its statement.
The president of the group, Dr. Patrice Harris, described doctors taking drastic measures to make do: “Physicians don’t have enough masks; they are wearing a single mask all day, cleaning them at home, and sewing their own protective gear,” she said.
On Thursday, CNN reported on guidance issued by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to address shortages during the coronavirus pandemic.
The agency said that health care workers could consider using masks beyond their designated shelf life, reusing them between multiple patients, and even – as a last resort – consider using scarves and bandanas as protective equipment.
[ AMA knows where the buck stops. It’s not blaming states. Maybe we should stop the state blaming game, too. Please. ]
Delta CEO: Second quarter revenue will decline 80% from last year due to coronavirus
From CNN’s Chris Isidore
Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian revealed to employees that the airline now expects revenue to plunge $10 billion in the second quarter of this year — or an 80% decline compared to last year — as the airline deals with the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic.
“It’s also clear, given the underlying damage the virus has created to the overall economy, that demand recovery will take an extended period once the virus is contained,” he said in a letter to employees, obtained by CNN.
Delta arranged for $2.6 billion in new borrowing and drew down an additional $3 billion in cash on an existing credit line, Bastian revealed. And he said about 13,000 of more than 90,000 Delta employees had agreed to take voluntary unpaid leaves.
He also defended past spending by the company, saying that most of the profits in recent years went into new aircraft and employees, not to share repurchases or dividends that benefit shareholders.
Earlier this week, Bastian wrote another letter to employees in which he said the airline would cut 70% of it scheduled flights and that it would park 600 of its jets, more than half of its fleet. He also warned that involuntary furloughs or pay cuts might be necessary.
“I know everyone is concerned about the security of your jobs and pay. Given the uncertainty about the duration of this crisis, we are not yet at a point to make any decisions,” he wrote on Wednesday. “And those are very painful decisions to even consider. In this unpredictable environment we can’t take any options off the table, but any steps that would affect your jobs or pay rates would be the absolute last thing we would do, and only if necessary to secure Delta’s long-term future.”
Good grief.
Speculating (SWAG) is not helpful in these trying times. The Governor also said, “We are told that there’s a shipment of swabs en route to Florida…”
In other words, the 500k is still being distributed.
Don’t forget that every politician will pontificate.
Cuomo was critical of the Feds and now he is BFF with the Prez.
Newsom was critical of the feds and now sings their praises.
It’s like the three little pigs… with the ones whose houses were made from straw and sticks complaining that the third little pig’s brick house is too small to house them, too. Misdirected anger…
17 doctors die of coronavirus in Italy
From CNN’s Livia Borghese in Rome
As medical workers in Italy struggle to treat patients with coronavirus, a large number of them have contracted the virus themselves.
Seventeen doctors have died from Covid-19 and there are a total of 3,654 medical staff who are infected, according to the country’s National Health Institute.
There is an “indefinite backlog” of testing kits from federal government, Nevada governor says
From CNN’s Andy Rose
Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak said they still don’t know the full extent of the danger the state is facing from coronavirus because they still don’t have enough testing kits.
“The Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health received a notice yesterday that all of Nevada’s requests to the federal government [for test kits] are on an indefinite backlog without any estimate of a timeline for delivery,” he said at a news conference Friday.
Sisolak said the state has made “countless calls” to ask and “even beg” for more testing materials, but the government has no guidance for when the backlog will be cleared.
In the meantime, Sisolak is responding with a new emergency order taking previous guidance for non-essential businesses to close, and now making it mandatory.
“I am not asking them anymore,” he said. “I am telling them they must close their doors.”
The governor said businesses that refuse to follow the order could be fined or have their business licenses revoked.
[ Where are the millions of kits Trump and Pence had promised would be delivered over 2 weeks ago? }
This is a great example of the cooperation of NY business and NY government. I hope more people will join in
Andrew Cuomo
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We’re in contact with
@CSiriano
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Who’s next?
Let’s do this together, NY!
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Christian Siriano
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If @NYGovCuomo says we need masks my team will help make some. I have a full sewing team still on staff working from home that can help.