@NYGovCuomo In New York City holding a storm briefing. Watch live:

[soothsayer]

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Andrew Cuomo
@NYGovCuomo
In New York City holding a storm briefing. Watch live:
https://t.co/P4De7XNnB0?amp=1

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1. Trying to offset the bad press today?

I see he’s trying to allay the “I alone can do it” charges.

The deputy commissioner for public health at the New York State Health Department resigned in late summer. Soon after, the director of its bureau of communicable disease control also stepped down. So did the medical director for epidemiology. Last month, the state epidemiologist said she, too, would be leaving.

The drumbeat of high-level departures in the middle of the pandemic came as morale plunged in the Health Department and senior health officials expressed alarm to one another over being sidelined and treated disrespectfully, according to five people with direct experience inside the department.

Their concern had an almost singular focus: Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.

Even as the pandemic continues to rage and New York struggles to vaccinate a large and anxious population, Mr. Cuomo has all but declared war on his own public health bureaucracy. The departures have underscored the extent to which pandemic policy has been set by the governor, who with his aides crafted a vaccination program beset by early delays.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/01/nyregion/cuomo-health-department-officials-quit.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

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2. Oh my. This is mostly about the storm but a bit about covid

Let’s see if the press asks him about it.

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Andrew Cuomo
@NYGovCuomo
Stay home.

We have now declared a state of emergency in 44 counties statewide.

This is a dangerous storm.

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3. The worst line was this

“When I say ‘experts’ in air quotes, it sounds like I’m saying I don’t really trust the experts,” Cuomo said at a news conference on Friday, referring to scientific expertise at all levels of government during the pandemic. “Because I don’t. Because I don’t.”

WTF?