{"id":82641,"date":"2020-10-06T02:34:20","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T23:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/cuomo-de-blasio-both-ignore-science-sense-in-latest-lockdown-moves\/"},"modified":"2020-10-06T02:34:20","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T23:34:20","slug":"cuomo-de-blasio-both-ignore-science-sense-in-latest-lockdown-moves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cuomo-de-blasio-both-ignore-science-sense-in-latest-lockdown-moves\/","title":{"rendered":"#Cuomo, de Blasio both ignore science, sense in latest lockdown moves"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Cuomo, de Blasio both ignore science<\/a>, sense in latest lockdown moves<\/strong>”
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\n Here we go again.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Mayor Bill de Blasio asked the state for permission to lock down neighborhoods experiencing a spike in COVID-19 cases. The plan would have closed all nonessential businesses in nine zip codes where COVID-19 positive test results exceed 3 percent. Schools, somehow no longer deemed \u201cessential,\u201d would also have closed.<\/p>\n

During his news<\/a> conference the next day, Gov. Andrew Cuomo app<\/a>roved part of the plan, closing schools a day earlier than de Blasio had requested but keeping nonessential businesses open. Hizzoner then gave his own news conference later in the afternoon, announcing that business closures would happen, after all.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s such a delight for New Yorkers to watch our mayor and governor continue to squabble amid a pandemic. What\u2019s amazing is that they can oppose each other, even as they\u2019re both completely wrong.<\/p>\n

De Blasio\u2019s plan was ludicrous. For one thing, there are no walls around neighborhoods. If someone resides in a locked-down zip code, she can easily travel<\/a> to an open area. Will officials require businesses to ask for ID before admitting customers? Do New Yorkers really want to live in a city where they can be asked for their papers? And wouldn\u2019t the closures cause more, not fewer, people from COVID-19 hot zones to fan out to other, open neighborhoods?<\/p>\n

Cuomo\u2019s schools-only plan is just as absurd. We know that kids face a minuscule risk from the virus. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that babies, kids and teens account for roughly 5 percent of all confirmed cases, and 0.06 percent of all reported deaths \u2014 less than one-tenth of 1 percent. We also know kids transmit the virus at a lower rate than adults.<\/p>\n

Plus, Gotham public schools only opened for in-person learning last week, certainly not enough time to show that they are the cause of any spread, despite \u00adCuomo\u2019s unscientific claim that the \u201cvirus mainly transmits\u201d in schools.<\/p>\n

The plan seems more like punishment to these communities than aid. Private schools in these areas also must close, even if they\u2019ve had no cases whatsoever. You\u2019ve been bad, de Blasio and Cuomo are saying, and you\u2019re going to be put in a time out.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, good behavior isn\u2019t rewarded. Park Slope\u2019s 0.31 percent positive rate doesn\u2019t mean our restaurants get to open at a higher capacity for indoor dining, nor do our kids get to go to school full-time. We continue to exist in government-mandated limbo, no matter how low our numbers get.<\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s the question of the accuracy of the numbers. I live in Park Slope, and the social<\/a>-media boards are buzzing with people getting frequent tests: \u201cI\u2019m seeing friends this weekend, and we all want to get tested beforehand; where should I go?\u201d \u201cThe schools didn\u2019t mandate testing, but we want to test our son before school starts anyway. Where should we test?\u201d<\/p>\n

Park Slope has had 10,265 tests per 100,000 residents. Areas of Manhattan are even higher. The Upper West Side has had 11,857 per 100,000; the West Village, 12,250; the East Village, 13,404.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in my mother\u2019s immigrant, working-class enclave of Bensonhurst, one of the nine locked-down neighborhoods, no one gets tested for the hell of it. People there get tested when they have symptoms, \u00adperiod.<\/p>\n

Their test rate is 4,581 per 100,000 residents, less than half that of Park Slope\u2019s. Is Bensonhurst\u2019s 4.2 percent positive rate worrying? Maybe. But officials don\u2019t seem to be taking into \u00adaccount the fact that its testing rate is much lower than that of rich, white, highly educated neighborhoods.<\/p>\n

The leadership\u2019s dishonesty is the worst part. Cuomo celebrates his performance in a self-adulatory new book, but did we defeat the novel coronavirus? Of course not.<\/p>\n

We can\u2019t keep the numbers at zero cases for \u00adreopening anything. Our only option to get to zero cases is to shut down indefinitely; no one can abide that. But in the meantime, schools are the governor\u2019s convenient punching bag.<\/p>\n

The point of locking down was supposed to be to \u201cflatten the curves,\u201d to allow hospitals to get a handle on upticks. We did that. Months ago. What\u2019s the point of locking down now? De Blasio, Cuomo and their hysterical media allies keep talking about \u201ccases\u201d without mentioning that cases don\u2019t mean deaths or even hospitalizations. On reopened college campuses, for example, the explosion of cases is just that: positive test results not \u00adassociated with any serious illness.<\/p>\n

A \u201ccasedemic\u201d doesn\u2019t necessarily overwhelm health workers and health systems. Keeping kids out of school isn\u2019t scientific. It\u2019s an act of sadistic superstition.<\/p>\n

Twitter: @Karol <\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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