Posted on 03/15/2020 11:40:43 AM PDT by Fitzy_888
Video at link.
Talk of the Army Corp. of Engineers converting State college dorms to treatment centers.
Also, New York State will soon have the most cases, surpassing Washington State.
729 cases ny
At 4:00PM ET South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster will hold a press conference. Biggest subject will be school closures.
Initial reports have them putting the choice of closing or staying open on districts with no reported cases in their area in those district’s hands. Those with confirmed cases will be closed. Confusing enough?
All Long Island, ny schools public and private closed for 2 weeks beginning tomorrow.
Cuomo basically had to lose his cool at the media and the legislators in this press conference. I’m no fan of Cuomo’s, but he is a good manager and understands the job he signed up for - unlike our NYS legislature, apparently. Cuomo has handled this outbreak as well as I guess could be expected (and I think bringing out the Corps of Engineers is a great idea that should be implemented here, given the numbers of cases we will have).
I also appreciate him saying that the politics of this need to be left to another time when we are looking back at this in our rearview mirror.
I’m from NY and I don’t care what he has to say.
As long as mommy stays home I don’t care what this thing does.
We Italian boys take care of our mommies :)
And come to think of it, I believe that adding one Republican governor of a heavily populated state (Abbott?) and one Democrat governor (Cuomo) to the Pence task force should happen.
New York, California, and Washington have many more cases than anyone else. If you can get builds done in those cases quickly (NY will likely use dorms that are already standing and just modify them), then the Corps can move along as other states pop.
The left loves this because it gives them an excuse to act like a totalitarian state. He’s bringing in the military now, and people even suspected will to be quarantined. Next I assume they will be rationing food.
Keep our eyes on Florida. I am in Florida, and the temperatures have changes to warm and we are seeing our emergence from winter. I am curious to see if along the southern tier of states there is a divergence of number of cases from the north which still has respiratory conditions.
All the states that support open borders and have sanctuary cities have the highest cases of infection. NO SURPRISE THERE!
No, on a per-capita bases we have as many cases in Colorado and more deaths. I insist they expend resources here first. Just in case it gets bad. Screw the rest of the country. That is basically what I hear you saying.
10x higher.
Corpse of Engineers can’t even wipe their dam r-sez with the hundreds of millions they spend on the problems they create.
What are they going to do in uncharted viral waters?
The way I heard it, Cuomo is practically begging Trump to call for something akin to martial law so he, Cuomo, can blame Trump for whatever may go wrong.
With the exception Washington (state), NY and California, which have very high numbers, the vast majority of moderately infected seem to be in the NE.
In fact, D.C. area on the map seems to be the virus center or hub..with the infection fanning out from there. With far less cases in the mid-west and south.
Almost like when you look at a road map highway system.
OTOH, he does provide an excellent summary of the current status and some of the many things needed to handle this epidemic and its consequences...
Most of what he describes in his "open" letter to POTUS are things he knows are already under way or under consideration by the POTUS... So he is basically positioning himself as the serfs future hero...
Like anything ever proposed or implemented by these marxist scum, all their favorite "control" items & policies have to be included in any solution...
A classic example is the virus "porkulus" bill that was constructed out of the usual "compromise" conditions that the communists have always obtained... If the communists want it, it's included... If the Americans want it, it's not in the compromise... Just read the details of what the POTUS and the GOP agreed to!
That’s a good point. Washington is the port of entry for may Asian flights — but not much cross country spread from there easterly as it gets to be big sky country fast. Maybe that the spread down the coast? your point is excellent.
That’s a dumb idea
The governors have gotten everything they’ve asked for
The task force has bigger things to work on. Let the governors take care if their states
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