Reopening New York's bars would be a disaster, writes chrisecrowley
Don’t fill the seats. Even half of them. Photo: Angus Mordant/Bloomberg via Getty Images Around the country, the headlines have been the same. Area bars ordered to shut down once again as coronavirus cases spike to record highs. Owners voluntarily close bars because of coronavirus cases. This was happening across the U.S. from Miami to Iowa City to Los Angeles, as 31 states saw a rise in cases and 15 states saw cases remain the same.
Don’t forget that in early March, when the reality of the pandemic was unavoidable, de Blasio told people to go out. He resisted calls to close schools or restaurants, up until two days before the restaurant shutdown. As for Cuomo, he reacted negatively to the idea of a shutdown, responding to de Blasio’s belated call for a shelter-in-place order by saying, “I have no plan whatsoever to quarantine any city.
We are now several months into this pandemic, and while there is still so much more to learn, we do know at least two things: The government is not going to bail out the people who need help, and everyone needs to wear a mask. As epidemiologist Mark Lipsitch tells the New Yorker, wearing masks and avoiding indoor activities with strangers “are the two most important things” to do for people hoping to avoid the virus .
We are now seeing the results of this in states that were hurriedly reopened by callous officials sick of the tyranny of sheltering-in-place, like Texas lieutenant governor Dan Patrick, who infamously said in March “As a senior citizen, are you willing to take a chance on your survival in exchange for keeping the America that America loves for its children and grandchildren?” For what? There is a disconnect between the desire to pretend there is nothing wrong, and the very real threat still...
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