Gov. Cuomo: Trump's reckless quarantine remarks 'panicked' people into leaving New York City

[TheBlackAdder]

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) revealed on Sunday that “panicked” New Yorkers told him that they are planning to leave the state after President Donald Trump threatened to “quarantine” surrounding areas.

Cuomo made the remarks a day after Trump said that he was considering a quarantine before backing off the threat.

“You want to do it in a way that doesn’t create more fear,” Cuomo explained. “You’re fighting the virus and you’re fighting the fear. I can’t tell you how many people called all night long about the mandatory quarantine comment that the president made as he was getting into a helicopter.”

“People are so on edge, I mean it really panicked people,” he continued. “They were going to leave the city last night. Really. You need to manage that fear and the panic. And you also need to deal with the virus.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/gov-cuomo-trumps-reckless-quarantine-remarks-panicked-people-into-leaving-new-york-city/

Yep.

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[SWBTATTReg]

1. Our idiot president strikes again. I wish that he would shut the f**k up. Period.

Pls. pardon my language, but this idiot is getting on my last nerve.

[dalton99a]

2. When in trouble, Trump always generates chaos to divert attention from himself

[Blue_true]

6. Actually, unlike some delicates here, I like a righteously used F-bomb.

No need to apologize to me.

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. Hoo cooda known???

Leaked coronavirus plan to quarantine 16m sparks chaos in Italy

Oh.

[former9thward]

4. If I lived in NYC and had someplace else to go I would be long gone.

Why live in the epicenter of the virus?

[Blue_true]

7. Why? Because it is all over the country now. You can't be certain that

you don't move to a worse developing hotspot. Even rural America is seeing increasing infections and deaths, where would you rather be, in a place with many well respected hospitals and the premier Fire and EMT departments in the country, or out in the sticks somewhere with volunteer first responders and a hospital that maybe has a bed for every 500 people, 2 or 3 Doctors, if they are lucky and maybe a dozen poorly paid Nurses? My answer is that I would take my chances in NYC.

[former9thward]

8. No it is not all over the country.

The NYC area has 56% of the country's new infections. Those are the facts. I would not be there if I could help it.

[Blue_true]

9. It is around you where you stand. New York is simply testing more people.

Hope you have a ventilator where you live, maybe someone can figure out how to use it on more than 2 people at once (a recently developed practice that works to increase ventilator capacity). You can't "hide" from this thing, it has found you.

[former9thward]

10. There is plenty of tests where I am at. Thank you.

[Blue_true]

11. Where do you live, generally? nt

[former9thward]

12. The greatest city in the world, Chicago.

I have spent time in 43 countries and always can't wait to get back to Chicago for all of its faults.

[Blue_true]

13. Illinoise is not testing at the rate that NYC is. NYC has the

highest rate by far. I am sure that Pritzer and Lightfoot are closing that gap, but there is a gap.

BTW, now I know how you crafted your username. For some reason because of your handle, I thought that you were from New Orleans.

[former9thward]

16. Yes, you are not the first one to think that.

The 9th ward in NO is far better known than the 9th ward in Chicago.

[democrattotheend]

15. I don't blame you

Given how overwhelmed the hospitals are getting in NYC it would make sense to go somewhere where they are less overwhelmed. Just make sure it's a red area, please. I'm thinking somewhere in Pennsyltucky would be ideal.

[Blue_true]

5. So Trump made it possible for potentially ill people from a big

hotspot to take the virus elsewhere.

What Trump fails to see is the virus is everywhere in America. Earlier today I read about rural cities having COVID-19 infections and deaths and 700 masks and 80 face shields for a community of over 26,000. Even in those places, Trump is being gently criticized.

[crickets]

14. When is someone going to come out and bluntly say it:

Donald Trump is a clear and present danger to this country.