Current Events > Would you vote for Andrew Cuomo if he ran for president?

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Im watching him present a slideshow to the public, fit with statistics and graphs detailing the citys progress over the past couple of weeks, and Im wondering why he has such a bad reputation.

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au_gold posted...

Im watching him present a slideshow to the public, fit with statistics and graphs detailing the citys progress over the past couple of weeks, and Im wondering why he has such a bad reputation.

because it's a fucking act

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Hell no! New York did the worst with the virus , who the fuck would vote for that leadership?

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Absolutely not.
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au_gold posted...

Im watching him present a slideshow to the public, fit with statistics and graphs detailing the citys progress over the past couple of weeks, and Im wondering why he has such a bad reputation.

Trump hamstrung Cuomo's efforts to properly test and care for the infected. And since Trump has "washed his hands" of the virus, and anything to do with it, the people actually doing the work are the ones left to take the blame.

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Good point. I thought it was a smart move to give governors more power initially, but Trump isnt doing his part at the federal level to provide them with the supplies they need.

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https://youtu.be/biorRAQJhH8

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I would encourage you to read this
https://www.propublica.org/article/two-coasts-one-virus-how-new-york-suffered-nearly-10-times-the-number-of-deaths-as-california

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, however, reacted to de Blasios idea for closing down New York City with derision. It was dangerous, he said, and served only to scare people. Language mattered, Cuomo said, and shelter-in-place sounded like it was a response to a nuclear apocalypse.

Moreover, Cuomo said, he alone had the power to order such a measure.

For years, Cuomo and de Blasio, each of whom has harbored national political ambitions, had engaged in a kind of intrastate cold war, a rivalry that to many often felt childish and counterproductive. When de Blasio finally decided to close the citys schools, it was Cuomo who rushed to make the public announcement, claiming it as his decision.

No city in the state can quarantine itself without state approval, Cuomo said of de Blasios call for a shelter-in-place order. I have no plan whatsoever to quarantine any city.

Cuomos conviction didnt last. On March 22, he, too, shuttered his state. The action came six days after San Francisco had shut down, five days after de Blasio suggested doing similarly and three days after all of California had been closed by Newsom. By then, New York faced a raging epidemic, with the number of confirmed cases at 15,000 doubling every three or four days.

Health officials well understood the grim mathematics. One New York City official said of those critical days in March: We had been pretty clear with the state about the implications of every day, every hour, every minute.

As of May 15, there were nearly 350,000 COVID-19 cases in New York and more than 27,500 deaths, nearly a third of the nations total. The corresponding numbers in California: just under 75,000 cases and slightly more than 3,000 deaths. In New York City, the countrys most populous and densest, there had been just under 20,000 deaths; in San Francisco, the countrys second densest and 13th most populous, there had been 35.

The differing outcomes will be studied for years, as more is learned about the virus, its unique qualities, its varying strains, its specific impact on certain populations, and the role of factors like poverty, pre-existing health problems and public transportation in its spread and lethality.

California, if twice as populous as New York, does not have nearly as many people living on top of one another; despite San Franciscos density, it does not have millions of people packed into subways and buses the way New York City does. New York City is home to far more African Americans, a population hit hard by the virus.

But the timing of New Yorks shutdown undeniably played a role in the dire human toll the virus has exacted. In April, two prominent experts said in a New York Times opinion article that their research showed that had New York imposed its extreme social distancing measures a week or two earlier, the death toll might have been cut by half or more.

Its an assessment shared by Dr. Tom Frieden, the former head of New York Citys Health Department. Days earlier & so many deaths could have been prevented, Frieden tweeted in April.

Cuomo's failures afforded him the opportunity to make daily TV appearances to discuss the worst outbreak in the country while governors who handled their shit have gone relatively unnoticed.
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What are my other options?

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Sometime I wonder how some of you can pick or hope these shitty candidates no better then Trump or Biden.

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Everyone outside of New York seems to think he's the chosen one just because he bickers with Trump, while everyone in New York seems to think that he's doing horrendous job.

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