Anyone tweeting that Florida is not doing well is just hoping. It's not even debatable. Anything can happen but right this minute both NY and California would trade with Florida and everyone knows it. And Florida is wide open while CA and NY are crippled with closures.
As I've said about COVID before, there's a Russian phrase "it is not yet evening" which applies. Areas with low rates can see spikes, areas with spikes can see numbers fall. It's a virus, this is how viruses go. But Florida is showing us that lockdowns and closures do nothing.
That's why people on the left, who believe so hard that just a little more lockdown should do the trick, want Florida to fail so badly. Videos from Miami restaurants look like 2019, videos from NYC look like I Am Legend (no I haven't seen it).
Many "Florida is hiding real COVID numbers" truthers in responses. I've asked *how* they are hiding their "real" numbers but actually: *Why* would they hide their numbers? What's the motive? To say haha to other states? They'd be willing to have their population DIE to do this?
Also, if you need to depend on a large number of people in government keeping a secret in order for your conspiracy theory to work, well, get a better conspiracy theory.
"A bunch of psychopaths are covering up how many COVID deaths have happened in their state because they want to win the argument with other states about how best to handle COVID. Bodies are being hidden...somewhere. Large number of govt employees in on it."

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21 Dec
This is abject nonsense. Anyone who so much as watched the news in passing knew what was happening in Italy. Why does the media continue to let Cuomo push this "no one knew it was in Europe" line? Everyone but him knew it was in Europe.
We were going to go to Italy in summer 2020 with friends. This is a Feb. 26 email from my friend "So, uh... should we reconsider the Italy decision?
thelocal.it/20200225/map-w…" If Cuomo didn't know "in the Spring" that COVID was in Europe, I don't know what to tell him.
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21 Dec
How crazy is NYC's new "no screened middle schools" approach? I think it's hard for ppl outside system to really get it so I want to try to break down a small part of it, the part I know. NYC has "citywide" gifted&talented schools, 5 of them in total. One is K-12, four are K-8.
Unlike g&t classes *inside* other schools, these are stand-alone schools. They operate a full year ahead of the regular school curriculum of same grade. One of my kids goes to one of these schools. My other 2 kids are also smart but my daughter is in her own league.
She finishes a book a day, sometimes two. She's teaching herself French in her spare time. But more than any of the stuff she does outside of school, she excels in school, at her already insanely hard, competitive, school she often says it's easy.
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21 Dec
On restaurants, the stupid rules, the abuse and the weak politicians letting this happen. My column in Monday’s @nypost: nypost.com/2020/12/20/new…
I could write 10 more articles re stupid rules but top terrible rule is 10pm close. Restaurant owners stressed to me that is murdering their businesses. 10pm close means no 8:30 seating. If NYC politicians could dig deep & find some courage, that would be priority 1 to challenge.
The silence from city politicians, while they get steamrolled by Gov. Cuomo, is pathetic. You’re elected to fight for your city not sell it out because the guy destroying it is in your political party. Stand up, you chair warmers.
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19 Dec
Hidden in "no bathroom use" dictat from other night, staff can't drink alcohol at restaurants. Restaurant owner told me: "employees can’t drink alcohol at work anymore. But why? They’re all over 21. We can’t give our employees a glass of wine at end of their shift anymore? Why?
Where's the COVID safety in offering a glass of wine to staff? It seems like our elected officials believe that anything happiness-inducing or halfway pleasant spreads COVID.
Here are the *updated* guidelines where thank you, m'lords, for letting us use the bathroom inside restaurants. www1.nyc.gov/assets/counsel…
Read 5 tweets
5 Dec
Last night I tweeted comparing NY and FL COVID positive tests. The tweet kind of blew up and I got a lot of responses, smart and less smart. I responded to some. (cont)
But one response really sends me in a fucking rage: the idea that NY in open. My kids haven't been to school since mid-Nov and when they were it was for 2 *sometimes* 3 pathetic days a week. That is not open. That is not fucking open.
Friends in NY who have businesses are straight suffering. Do people who tweeted that NY is open really not know a single business owner? Do they think everything is fine because their stupid pajama job is still paying them?
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30 Nov
Cuomo press conferences now have a...soundtrack?
When you hear Christmas music you should think of the COVID grinch, really.
Cuomo says bar and restaurant transmission way down, gym spread not as dramatically down. "Astonishing" how low infection rates in school. Says now it's spreading through family and social gatherings.
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