Politicians and public health experts are encouraging a “warlike” mentality as they prepare for a deepening coronavirus crisis in the coming weeks
A National Guard member hands out food to people in the New Rochelle “containment area.” Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images On Sunday, New York governor Andrew Cuomo wrote an op-ed in the New York Times calling for President Trump to mobilize the military to fight the spread of the coronavirus and to help expand the medical system’s capacity to treat patients in the coming weeks.
Cuomo is the not the first voice to call for federal disaster intervention — the National Guard has already been activate in six states, including in New Rochelle in New York — though his plea on Sunday may be the most significant of any of the public appeals to treat the coronavirus with a wartime mentality. “We’re going into a full crisis footing,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Saturday, the day before he announced the closing of New York City’s schools. “This is a wartime dynamic.
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