{"id":66128,"date":"2020-09-14T02:50:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-13T23:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/i-was-pro-lockdown-for-nyc-but-now-theres-no-excuse-for-continuing-it\/"},"modified":"2020-09-14T02:50:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-13T23:50:00","slug":"i-was-pro-lockdown-for-nyc-but-now-theres-no-excuse-for-continuing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/i-was-pro-lockdown-for-nyc-but-now-theres-no-excuse-for-continuing-it\/","title":{"rendered":"#I was pro-lockdown for NYC \u2014 but now there\u2019s no excuse for continuing it"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#I was pro-lockdown for NYC \u2014 but now there\u2019s no excuse for continuing it<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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September 13, 2020 |<\/span> 7:50pm <\/p>\n

\n What are we doing?<\/p>\n

Living in New York City continues to feel like we\u2019re in the Upside Down. Our COVID-19 positive rates are astonishingly low. Yet attractions, businesses and schools remain shuttered. If we knew in March that the lockdown would mean months \u00adbefore businesses got to reopen and longer than that until schools opened for in-person learning, would we have gone along?<\/p>\n

I wouldn\u2019t have. In March, I was at the forefront of calls to close schools. We needed to flatten the curves. We needed to stop the hospitals from getting overwhelmed. Those were worthwhile goals. What are the goals now? It\u2019s insane to keep children locked down without a goal.<\/p>\n

And the insanity doesn\u2019t end there. Last week, Gov. Cuomo announced that finally restaurants in Gotham could reopen for indoor dining \u2014 but at an absurd 25 percent capacity. A friend with a 19-seat Brooklyn joint pointed out she could host 4.75 people.<\/p>\n

The rest of the state has been open for indoor dining throughout the summer at 50 percent capacity, yet we didn\u2019t experience any spikes in cases. Why is Cuo\u00admo punishing Big App<\/a>le restaurateurs and workers?<\/p>\n

The irrationality is the most \u00adinfuriating part. A few days ago, an announcement was made that public high schools in New York are canceling their football, volleyball and cheerleading fall seasons. But tennis, soccer and field hockey are somehow allowed. Huh? That\u2019s so arbitrary.<\/p>\n

I tried to not be overly bitter last week, as photos of my friends\u2019 kids returning to real schools filled my Facebook<\/a> feed.<\/p>\n

They weren\u2019t going back to school in far-off places. Plenty were returning to full-time, in-person schooling at public schools in nearby Long \u00adIsland and private ones in Manhattan. My own kids won\u2019t go back to any schooling until later this week, when city public schools will \u00adfinally start \u2014 remotely.<\/p>\n

Do private-school and suburban parents want teachers and kids to die? No. All have weighed the risks and benefits, taken the necessary precautions and decided that it\u2019s \u00adunhealthier to remove kids from live education long term.<\/p>\n

New York City schools are supposed to be returning to part-time in-person learning on Sept. 21. But few parents believe it will actually happen, mostly due to the total incompetence of everyone in charge of the reopening, the mixed messages from the top \u2014 and the cravenness of teachers unions.<\/p>\n

During routine COVID-19 testing last week, two asymptomatic teachers tested positive in Brooklyn. The schools where they teach will now be delayed in opening. Did no one who makes policy foresee that we would have positive cases going forward? Is the plan simply to shut down schools every time there is a positive case? And are we doing that until COVID-19 disappears?<\/p>\n

We didn\u2019t sign up to stay home indefinitely.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not an epidemiologist and I will largely follow what actual medical professionals direct us to do. But few epidemiologists are urging a continued lockdown to defeat COVID-19.<\/p>\n

Writing in The New York Times in April, Gabriel Leung, an infectious-disease epidemiologist and dean of medicine at the University of Hong Kong, wrote that lockdowns can\u2019t last forever \u201cwith\u00adout causing enormous damage to economies and compromising peoples\u2019 goodwill and emotional well-being.\u201d<\/p>\n

But more important, Leung noted, \u201ccontainment has failed everywhere.\u201d As we\u2019ve seen spikes in countries like Australia and South Korea, previously considered \u201cmodel\u201d countries that handled the virus very well, that\u2019s more important to remember than ever. We can\u2019t defeat COVID-19 by continually shutting down.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve taken COVID-19 seriously, both in this column and in my own family. But the strategy for New York simply makes no sense anymore. We need a longer-term direction for our city and state, and that direction should be based on science<\/a>. Real science \u2014 not \u201cscience\u201d wielded as a rhetorical cudgel by Cuomo and de Blasio.<\/p>\n

We can\u2019t continue in this fearfulness with a vague plan to wait out the virus while society collapses around us. Our elected officials need to offer rational guidance, or New Yorkers need to fight them. We\u2019ve been complacent for long enough.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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