Some perspective from Governor Andrew Cuomo:<\/p>\n
Somebody said to me, \u201cI can\u2019t do this anymore.\u201d People are feeling the stress on a number of levels. They\u2019re not getting a paycheck. Their life is on hold. \u201cIs my business going to come back? Do I have a job at the end of this? My whole life has been disoriented. I just, I can\u2019t take it anymore.\u201d I get it. I get it. I really do fundamentally get it. This has been a God awful situation on many, many levels.<\/p>\n
God awful situation on many, many levels. And many people I\u2019m sure are saying this in their own way, so who said it to me is not important, but it was one of my daughters, I won\u2019t tell you which one though. Just to protect their privacy.<\/p>\n
I get the feeling. Today is day 56. It\u2019s been 56 long days. Generations are called upon to deal with high levels of difficulty. We are called upon to deal with this crisis. Day 56. 1918 pandemic went on for two years, we are in day 56. World War one went on for four years, the great depression went on for four years. You want to talk about economic anxiety. You want to talk about people losing homes, not being able to feed themselves. People living in camps, people living in cars, world war two, six years, Vietnam war, that intensity every night, every night have to hear about the tragedies went on for eight years.<\/p>\n
I get 56 days is a long time and I get it\u2019s the worst thing that we have experienced in modern history. I get that. But just a little perspective, not that it makes our situation any better, but it gives you a sense of perspective. Yes, in life, things happen. On an individual level and on a societal level, things happen. And you have to deal with it and it\u2019s hard, but on the other hand, that makes us who we are. You get shaped by your experiences. This is a terrible experience to go through, but we will manage it, we will handle it, and we will be the better for it.<\/p>\n
56 days of this inconvenience, yeah, think of it this way, what you\u2019re doing is actually saving lives. That\u2019s not rhetorical. That\u2019s not overly dramatic. You are saving lives. What we have done here has saved lives. Every expert, every expert, CDC, white house task force, Cornell University, Columbia University, McKinsey, the group that Bill Gates funded, every one of them projected that there would be at least 100,000 more serious infections in the state of New York, 100,000 more serious infections, more hospitalizations. What happened? We did what we had to do, which was hard and is hard. Well, what did we accomplish? 100,000 fewer serious infections. That\u2019s what 56 days of our relative living through hell has accomplished. And that is a heck of an accomplishment. So yes, it\u2019s not for naught. 100,000 fewer infections.<\/p>\n
And look, \u201cLife is better than death, even if it is not your own,\u201d A.J Parkinson. Even if you\u2019re 22 and you\u2019re 25 and you\u2019re strong and you\u2019re healthy and you say, \u201cWell, you know what, even if I get coronavirus, it\u2019s not going to affect me because it doesn\u2019t affect the young.\u201d With a little caveat there, except when it does, and your life might\u2019ve been the one that it did affect. But even if you\u2019re right, I\u2019m 22, I\u2019m 25 I would\u2019ve been just fine. Yeah, but who could you have infected? And maybe they weren\u2019t going to be fine because they weren\u2019t 22 when they weren\u2019t 25 because they were 65 and because they had diabetes or they had hypertension or they had an underlying heart condition, or because they were recovering from cancer and a cancer operation, and you infect that person and that person dies because you got infected. That\u2019s the reality of what we\u2019re dealing with. 56 days of pain. Yes, yes. Relative to the past and what other societies have gone through, bad but not the worst that people have gone through. What did we accomplish? 100,000 fewer infections in the state of New York. And we actually saved lives. That\u2019s what we did and that\u2019s what we\u2019re doing and that is inarguable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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Some perspective from Governor Andrew Cuomo: Somebody said to me, \u201cI can\u2019t do this anymore.\u201d People are feeling the stress on a number of levels. They\u2019re not getting a paycheck. Their life is on hold. \u201cIs my business going to … Continue reading