Speaking to attendees at a virtual meeting with the Association for a Better New York, New York Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo pleaded with citizens to return to the state after months of strict coronavirus lockdowns and deadly government scandals. The governor, however, does not deserve the benefit of the doubt; New Yorkers would be wise to stay clear of the state in turmoil.
“Remember, we have to get people back and we have to get people back in volume,” Cuomo said. “If you were to see a 15 percent decline of people coming back to New York City, that would have a devastating impact on the commercial market.”
“We need people coming back,” he said later in his remarks. “Say to your workforce, ‘By Labor Day, everyone is back in the office.’”
What does Cuomo expect, though? This is the man who more than a year ago shuttered businesses, slashed jobs, and instituted policies that led to grandma and grandpa being killed in nursing homes. It has been blunder after blunder.
While Cuomo shut down NYC indoor dining in March 2020 after greenlighting limited capacity dining, it is important to recall what exactly Americans learned soon after. Contact tracing data indicated that a tiny 1.43 percent of coronavirus cases were accounted for in restaurants and bars. Manhattan had a positivity rate of 2.7 percent, while still maintaining the most number of dining options.
New York recorded an 8.1 percent unemployment rate at one point this year, with more residents leaving than any other state. New York and Pennsylvania were found in an April report to have the most small business closure in the country, at 31 percent. All the while destroying the economy based on arbitrary policies unsupported by scientific research, Cuomo directed COVID-positive seniors back to long-term care facilities.
The New York Times reported in April that Cuomo aides altered reports to omit the deaths of…
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