As recently as three days ago, New York, Washington, and California were neck-and-neck in coronavirus cases. While the others have increased moderately, New York is now has about NINE TIMES more cases than second-place Washington State. While Washington's deaths have risen 14% in those three days, New York's are now 250% higher in the same amount of time.
Although Andrew Cuomo has offered effusive praise for President Trump's work in this crisis, Mayor De Blasio has offered nothing but criticism in an obvious attempt to diffuse attention from the poor job he has done in his own city which has 25% of all the COVID-19 cases in the United States. Many New Yorkers are ignoring any threat with block parties and pick-up basketball games all over the city. Many residents are not taking the warnings or virus seriously. That's De Blasio's fault; not Trump's. This forum's Humble Pi's experience at La Guardia echoes the carlessness residents are displaying.
We constantly hear blather about blue states subsidizing red states, but I live in a 250,000-person Christian conservative metro area that has three cases and no deaths, and am SICK of subsidizing these New York liberals by having to shut down my life and pay towards a multi-trillion-dollar fix. I don't care if NYC is a concentrated area. Texas has a much greater population, with five of the top 15 largest cities in the US. They have eight deaths. De Blasio and Cuomo knew what had and aren't doing the job. Senator Schumer is absolutely disgusting with his partisan antics, holding up a relief bill at the 11th hour last night. He doesn't care about the people losing their jobs or stock market taking a hit. Hell, during the time Trump was taking initial action against China in January, Schumer was running the impeachment scam. He wasn't remotely engaged in the looming COVID crisis.
Take out New York, and all the sudden this situation is far less menacing.
New York quiets as it becomes next virus hot spot
