- Remote work for non-essential business
- Hazard pay for essential/frontline workers
- Vax/testing req for airplanes
- Masks & tests delivered to every home
- Monthly survival checks
- National testing program
- Systematic ventilation upgrading
- Door-to-door or neighborhood vaccination stations
- Assistance to small and medium-sized businesses
- Rent/credit card/student loan debt pause
- Eviction moratorium
- Housing the unhoused
- Releasing the vaccine IP to the world
- Sending excess doses abroad
We need a robust approach to get through this pandemic humanely, avoiding needless death.
A study from May estimated more than 900,000 Americans had died from the virus -- that our official numbers were undercounting.
Millions have died globally. This is a test for humanity.
If we cannot get this right, how will we hope to deal with climate change?
We could also add vaccine and mask mandates to this list. It is not meant to be exhaustive.
.@GovKathyHochul is sounding the alarm over the Omicron variant — even signed an order allowing the cancelation of elective surgeries to preserve hospital capacity.
She’s not walking back her push to get remote workers back into offices by the new year.
Hochul is facing what promises to be a difficult primary from NYAG Letitia James. Critics charge that her push to end remote work is a play for donations from a reliable source: the real estate industry — commercial real estate in particular.
One of Andrew Cuomo’s biggest scandals involved sacrificing New Yorkers in nursing homes to reward an industry donor.
Hochul is poised to make the same mistake. Cases in NY have been surging and we are entering holiday season.
The New Zealand model works and we should adopt it.
Arguments of scale aren’t impressive. They get trotted out any time another country does something better than we do—namely health care-related things.
The "but my freedom" arguments are even worse. This is a genuine public health emergency. In terms of death toll, on the low end are the official numbers (>650K).
That requires strong federal intervention. Our Constitution is not a suicide pact.
Stop blaming policy failures on individual behavior.
There are no OSHA standards for most workplaces.
Our fed government is pushing to reopen schools without systemic overhaul of safety and with kids unvaxxed.
We aren’t doing paid lockdowns.
We’re not doing vaccine passports
And, of course, there are systemic failures as well: Many unvaccinated haven’t gotten the jab because they’re afraid of missing work. We don’t federally guarantee paid time off. Others are concerned about the cost of getting the vaccines. Some insurers have been wrongly charging.