Are any New Yorkers still watching Cuomo's daily briefings?
I'll watch the first couple minutes to get the hospitalization/death numbers sometimes (though I can hop on social media to see that information). But other than that, I tune out. Most of the stuff he says, it's the the same repetitive spiel day in and day out.
Cuomo's plan seems to have outraged a lot of people. There are counties that have had no active cases for weeks—and even more counties have large swaths with no active cases. (The county to my west, part of it has never had a single case this whole outbreak.) And yet he has set the testing criteria so high to ensure nobody qualifies to open May 15. All of the counties that have low hospitalization rates, high capacity, few deaths? Nope, not enough testing, even though it's apparent they don't need to test that many because so few people are sick. A drive-through testing site was canceled in my area last week because there was no demand for it. It's rigged.
And it's not even really much of an opening, either. Even if he opens up May 15, only construction and manufacturing open, but nothing else. IF no uptick, by May 29, then "professional services." Then June 12, then the restaurants can be reopened. Entertainers can't go back to work until the end of June, and that's IF cases and other stats continue to fall. The guidelines say nothing about the allowed size for gatherings, which are completely (unconstitutionally) prohibited under Cuomo's mandate.
Rural areas are tied into broader regions nearest their major cities. So parts of the southern tier are tied to still-struggling Buffalo, even as they bust their backsides trying to keep the virus out. This, even though they are next to the Pennsylvania border, where the northern counties of that state are set to loosen their restrictions May 8.
It's becoming clear that public opinion is starting to sway very heavily against the Emperor.
