I saw these memes a couple times over the weekend, and then it seemed like everyone was sharing them today. I don't want to say "I told you so," but I've already written a
couple times about how I saw time was just being wasted. Now we've frustrated everyone for months, caused people to lose their jobs, miss or delay important medical procedures, caused businesses to permanently shut down... for what? To ask people to do it all again, but better this time?!
Governors have been definitively shutting things back down in the areas with the biggest increase in infections, and I've at least seen masks start to be mandated at the local level (cities, counties) in areas where they weren't before. That doesn't mean people are wearing them 🙄 Though the anti-mask crowd definitely doesn't seem as vocal as they were even a few days ago... Even the vice president, who previously made a
public appearance in a hospital without a mask on, wore one at his event this weekend. (Of course, that event also
included a 100-person maskless choir, so... 🤦♀️) Yet the president still refuses. I've now seen several calls for him to just put on a mask. Of course, it's already too little, too late, but really, this is just prolonging this disaster...
New York's Governor Cuomo, whose daily press briefings at the height of the pandemic became very popular nationwide, was back live today with another conference. After roasting the president and calling out the federal government for not doing enough, he announced that the MTV Video Music Awards will supposedly be hosted from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn on August 30; some kind of filter has been installed there to help filter out viruses, and he recommends all businesses look into installing one. He concluded his remarks by unveiling a giant styrofoam "mountain" that represents the curve of cases in New York, with a very steep incline and gentle slope back down. I get that he was trying to make an impact with this visual, but I wonder if he's patting himself on the back too soon. Eventually all those people who fled the city are going to come back as it's now one of the "safer" places in the country, and with them will come the virus, plus the state is still slowly reopening. Even my state's cases have been curving back up over the past week, after having been congratulated by the CDC the week before for being one of only a few states to successfully reduce infections...
I saw these memes a couple times over the weekend, and then it seemed like everyone was sharing them today. I don't want to say "I told you so," but I've already written a couple times about how I saw time was just being wasted. Now we've frustrated everyone for months, caused people to lose their jobs, miss or delay important medical procedures, caused businesses to permanently shut down... for what? To ask people to do it all again, but better this time?!
Governors have been definitively shutting things back down in the areas with the biggest increase in infections, and I've at least seen masks start to be mandated at the local level (cities, counties) in areas where they weren't before. That doesn't mean people are wearing them 🙄 Though the anti-mask crowd definitely doesn't seem as vocal as they were even a few days ago... Even the vice president, who previously made a public appearance in a hospital without a mask on, wore one at his event this weekend. (Of course, that event also included a 100-person maskless choir, so... 🤦♀️) Yet the president still refuses. I've now seen several calls for him to just put on a mask. Of course, it's already too little, too late, but really, this is just prolonging this disaster...
New York's Governor Cuomo, whose daily press briefings at the height of the pandemic became very popular nationwide, was back live today with another conference. After roasting the president and calling out the federal government for not doing enough, he announced that the MTV Video Music Awards will supposedly be hosted from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn on August 30; some kind of filter has been installed there to help filter out viruses, and he recommends all businesses look into installing one. He concluded his remarks by unveiling a giant styrofoam "mountain" that represents the curve of cases in New York, with a very steep incline and gentle slope back down. I get that he was trying to make an impact with this visual, but I wonder if he's patting himself on the back too soon. Eventually all those people who fled the city are going to come back as it's now one of the "safer" places in the country, and with them will come the virus, plus the state is still slowly reopening. Even my state's cases have been curving back up over the past week, after having been congratulated by the CDC the week before for being one of only a few states to successfully reduce infections...
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