Last I heard it is 3:2 against survival if you get to the ventilator stage with this disease. But again, it is totally predictable. It would have cost the state of NY $140 million to put 40,000 ventilators into storage. It’s a lot of money, but also just a one time expense that would have paid for itself many times over by now. But the people who run New York don’t think like that. There is no ‘profit’ to put $140 million into warehouses. They profit by spending it on highly visible, and largely wasteful, feel good expenditures like free college for illegal immigrants. Then they can campaign on their wokeness.
Now, tell me, how are they going to pay for free college for anyone? They will be financially broken by this. They got to “feel good” for a moment, and they thought they had something to get votes. Instead, they may have cost themselves and the people they are supposed to serve everything they have.
There must be a reckoning.
NY’s “free college” program was more akin to indentured servitude than “free” anything; recipients had to remain in NY for as many years after graduation as they took the “free” college. I say “servitude” because if you want to live in NY state for four or five years as a young person, you can bet your @ss you’ll be working - even if the state has chased all the good jobs/employers away. You’ll work four or five years in a McJob before your emancipation, and that is the very goal of the program - to prevent the ongoing flight of young AMERICAN people from NY.
Great response. Just want to focus on these words: “But the people who run New York don’t think like that . . . .”
Who of us is able and willing to think and act ahead on stuff like this? I totally understand in hindsight, but I do not think either party would have welcomed such an expenditure in advance of this plague. Preparedness, even though quintessential to an informed people, does not sell among the many of either party.