Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday said that a “full shutdown” is possible in the coming weeks, a decision he said the state would ultimately decide, as infections continues to rise.
“We’re seeing the kind of level of infection with the coronavirus we haven’t seen since May and we have got to stop that momentum — or else, our hospital system will be threatened,” de Blasio said on CNN.
“This kind of momentum that the disease has right now? We’ve got to stop it. We’ve got to stop it before it causes too much damage, too much pain,” he continued. “And we have to stop it to give time for the vaccine to really be properly distributed.”
And if this momentum doesn’t stop?
“There’s the potential of having to do a full pause, a full shutdown, in the coming weeks, because we can’t let this kind of momentum go,” the mayor said.
(AP)
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The people of New York need to do something about this tyrant! You need to do something before you lose your city totally.
There is no reason for a city shut down! Look at the numbers. We are being fed a load of garbage when it comes to the numbers. The REAL NYC positive rate is 0.15458% over the past week! The 7-day average as of yesterday was 1855 per day. Multiply this by 7 and you get about 13,000. You then divide 13,000 by the amount of people in New York City, which, according to the most recent numbers available online, is 8.4 million. Your answer is 0.0015458 . Move the decimal point to the right by two spaces, and you get your percentage. Thus the percentage is 0.15458%. This is not higher mathematics.
This means 99.98% of the people are just fine!
If this question was asked on the Regents exam, The governor and the mayor would get it wrong! They are giving you a number based on the amount of tests given. It’s obvious people who are not having symptoms and are not sick who have no reason to take the test, will not take the test.
This is a major sham!
This kind of momentum that the disease has right now? We’ve got to stop it. Let’s rephrase this more accurately:- This kind of momentum that the shootings & crime have right now? We’ve got to stop it.
Get your prioritizes right you stupid goon. & since it turns out now that Cuomo has harassed some of his staff, whatever he says no longer carries any weight whatsoever.
Can we shutdown DeBlasio?
Can you New Yorkers get this sorry excuse of a mayor to operate remotely. Who needs this dumbo in City Hall? So glad to be out of NY
I hope he does it asap. I know of so many people that are getting it. I would like to quote some of the words of Rabbi Dr. Aaron Glatt ” You should not have a family chanukah party even if everybody takes
a rapid test. Because rapid tests don”t pickup people with low levels
of virus. Were so close to getting out of this and the number of people
that are dying are going up. It would be horrible if somebody died
because they went to a Chanukah party when maybe in two or three
months they’ll be vaccinated and could have another 20 30 40 years of
life.”
Hear full lecture at https://youtu.be/C8EUedD6cR0
this should really be up to the state legislature, not the governor and surely not the mayor. we can not and should not have a one man government. they have that in north korea, cuba, Venezuela. in America this should be decided by the people. this meglamaniac cuomo will hold onto this until it’s pulled from him by force of law. wake up America