Responding to a video of New Yorkers flooding the streets regardless of the Covid-19 lockdown, Governor Andrew Cuomo tweeted a warning solely to be chastised for his personal dealing with of the pandemic, particularly in nursing houses.
“Don’t make me come down there,” Cuomo tweeted together with a video of New York’s St. Mark’s being inundated with residents, most clearly ignoring social distancing and protecting masks necessities town has put in place to battle the unfold of coronavirus.
Cuomo’s warning landed with a little bit of a thud on social media, primarily because of his controversial and now notorious choice to pressure nursing houses to simply accept constructive Covid-19 sufferers early on throughout the pandemic, which many level to as a motive for the state’s excessive variety of circumstances and deaths.
“What are you going to do [?] pressure them into nursing houses?” Luke Rudkowski tweeted to the governor.
What are you going to do pressure them into nursing houses?
— Luke Rudkowski (@Lukewearechange) June 13, 2020
“Rattling you gonna kill ‘em all such as you clear out nursing houses?” added one other consumer.
Rattling you gonna kill em all such as you clear out nursing houses?
— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) June 13, 2020
“Humorous… I do not keep in mind you being such a tricky man to all of the rioters and looters,” writer Ryan James Girdusky tweeted.
Humorous… I don't keep in mind you being such a tricky man to all of the rioters and looters
— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) June 13, 2020
Tons of gathered in St. Mark’s within the East Village of New York on Friday evening. The New York Publish reported a minor police presence, although there have been no incidents between officers and residents and no makes an attempt made to close the gathering down.
Regardless of his disapproval of the occasion, Cuomo has beforehand expressed help for the mass protests occurring across the US over the demise of George Floyd, lots of which additionally ignore social distancing tips and embody folks not carrying protecting masks.
I share the outrage of the injustice and I stand with the protesters.
It’s not simply George Floyd. There are 50 or extra circumstances identical to it.
It’s rooted in lots of of years of racism and injustice.
Let’s use this power constructively and demand actual, constructive change.
— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) June 1, 2020
There are justified peaceable protests throughout the state tonight.
However there are additionally folks criminally exploiting this ache and this second.
We is not going to tolerate it.
— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) June 2, 2020
The governor additionally blasted New Yorkers for not carrying masks — that are required in public within the state — and went after others for not carrying them correctly.
It’s as much as us. #WearAMask pic.twitter.com/GDSXGlNij3
— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) June 13, 2020
The governor introduced on Saturday that New York misplaced 32 folks to Covid-19 on Friday, the bottom virus-related fatalities because the pandemic started. Additionally they noticed the bottom quantity of hospitalizations since March 20.
The state nonetheless stays the worst hit by the coronavirus with over 30,000 deaths having been reported and over 380,000 confirmed circumstances.
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