Thread by @adamscrabble

New York City could not have done a better job of accelerating the spread of Covid-19 if it tried.

January 28: Coronavirus No Match For NYC, Health Commissioner Says
Dr. Oxiris Barbot hopes the city's first coronavirus case will appear "sooner rather than later" so New Yorkers can see how ready we are

patch.com/new-york/new-y…

February 2: NYC Health Commissioner Oxiris Barbot -

“As we gear up to celebrate the #LunarNewYear in NYC, I want to assure New Yorkers that there is no reason for anyone to change their holiday plans, avoid the subway, or certain parts of the city because of #coronavirus,”

February 7: Health Commissioner Oxiris Barbot declares the city had little to worry about. “We’re telling New Yorkers, go about your lives, take the subway, go out, enjoy life,” she said.

February 9: Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez, a grand marshal of the Chinese New Year parade

“Last night, I was here dining in a restaurant in Chinatown. I welcome everyone to come here and celebrate the culture and beauty of this community.”
amny.com/editorial/fear…

March 1: First confirmed case in New York. A 39-year-old woman took Flight 701 from Doha, Qatar, to John F. Kennedy International Airport in late February, the final leg of her trip home to New York City from Iran.

March 2: The next day, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, appearing with Mayor Bill de Blasio at a news conference, promised that health investigators would track down every person on the woman’s flight. But no one did.

March 2: Governor Cuomo - “Excuse our arrogance as New Yorkers...So, when you’re saying, what happened in other countries versus what happened here, we don’t even think it’s going to be as bad as it was in other countries.” governor.ny.gov/news/video-aud…

March 3: “From what we do understand, you cannot contract it through casual contact so the subway is not the issue,” Bill de Blasio

March 4: NYC Health Comm Oxiris Barbot - with COVID-19 cases emerging in Westchester County, Barbot dismissed the threat of infection by casual contact, saying, “There’s no indication that being in a car, being in the subways with someone who’s potentially sick is a risk factor”

March 5: NYC Health Commissioner Oxiris Barbot - with “only four confirmed cases” in NYC, Barbot said the city was urging people who arrived from certain countries with rising cases to self-isolate, but everybody else without symptoms should not have to quarantine.

March 5: Bill de Blasio “We’ll tell you the second we think you should change your behavior,” the mayor said on March 5. nytimes.com/2020/03/05/nyr…

March 6: mayor Bill de Blasio and his staff take a one-stop trip on the A train from Manhattan to Brooklyn on March 6 to make the point Covid-19 transmission is unlikely. By that point, 22 people in the state had tested positive for the virus.

April 24: Study from MIT “ Subways Seeded the Massive Coronavirus Epidemic in New York City”


And so on...
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I've got a daily log folks. I'm Thucydides and this is my war

Lastly for those that might say "but they didnt know"
another quick thread...

January 23: Wuhan, China is totally closed off for travel and outside activity
nytimes.com/2020/01/22/wor…

January 23: CCP suspends group travel abroad but allowed individuals to travel even though Nikkei Asian Review, “groups account for less than half of all Chinese tourists heading abroad.”
The announcement came 17 days after massive outbound traffic for the Spring Festival began

January 23: The epidemic command centers of other cities in Hubei Province start ordering lockdowns

Over the course of the next several days, France,Australia and Canada reported their first confirmed cases of COVID-19.

January 28: NYC mayor Bill de Blasio: “It’s probably here already, that’s the sad reality... “We have to expect to see this here. What we now know is this virus was underestimated by the Chinese government.”
www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-…

January 31: Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases warns that coronavirus can be transmitted by asymptomatic individuals

January 31: Health Secretary Alex Azar declares a public health emergency and the Trump administration restricts travel from China.

and so end
/end

🔥Prologue tweets.
Everything about this tweet was disinformation.

1. Google did the site and even did their own thread explaining it.
2. The tests had been made available weeks before but it was NYC internal bureaucracy that constrained their acquisition and use
...

Example: Feb 7 Office of Emergency Management of NYC tries to purchase  200,000 N95 masks and learn that vendors were out of stock. Emergency provisions of masks and hand sanitizers did not arrive until early March.
One medical supply vendor with standing city contracts said that

Initial requests for protective gear from Dept of Citywide Admin Services were bogged down by inefficient bureaucratic delays. "We'd send them a list of products we can deliver within 24, 48 hours," but on average it took 72 hours for the agency to place an order.

Here is the disinfo de Blasio diffused

https://x.com/cnnbrk/status/1238646170307760128?s=20

It got so bad that Google itself had to intervene...

https://x.com/Google_Comms/status/1238989156610707456?s=20

And then in real time @Cernovich watched history being rewritten

https://x.com/Cernovich/status/1239034776138297345?s=20

The same day as de blasio made the above tweet, NYC
the number of confirmed cases rose to 814 citywide, de Blasio announced that the city was considering a similar shelter-in-place order within the next 48 hours

March 24: Cuomo stated that "The apex is higher than we thought and the apex is sooner than we thought." He warned there was not enough assistance from the federal government (which was not true) and that the state had 25,000 cases and at least 210 deaths (true)

April 19, 2020: De Blasio Pleads With Trump for Funding to Alleviate Virus Damage
Mayor Bill de Blasio compared President Trump to Gerald Ford and asked if he was telling New York City to ‘drop dead.’
nytimes.com/2020/04/19/nyr…

But the damage was done and there was no going back. Asking for help when your king is a move away from hopeless checkmate is poor sportsmanship.
When lives are lost what is it?

/The end?

UPDATE, today this happened. Failing to acknowledge her own complicity
nytimes.com/2020/08/04/nyr…

This just happened

Checkpoints on Tunnels And Bridges To Enforce Quarantine Order
 “New Yorkers worked too hard to beat back COVID-19 — we cannot lose that progress. 35 states have dangerously high infection rates. We won’t let the virus spread here.”
dailycaller.com/2020/08/05/de-…

This was about a week ago. For every rule there must be an exception

Oh, ok.
Why protesting racism during a pandemic is important – an epidemiologist explains via @TC_Africa theconversation.com/why-protesting…