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NYC politicians and health officials urged New Yorkers to go to movies and participate in parades, characterizing concerns about coranvirus as “misinformation”
https://twitter.com/wesyang/status/1239245212238610436?s=21 https://twitter.com/wesyang/status/1239245212238610436
It was absolutely possible to know back then.. It's true that most didn't. But the unwarranted confidence with which these politicians declared that concern about mass gatherings was both irrational and racist conditioned all their later bad choices. https://twitter.com/randyfinch/status/1243050107039145984?s=20
There are lots of ways to drop the ball; this is the one that the people who happened to be in charge of NYC government, schools, and public health chose, for reasons that absolutely merit scrutiny.
Here's one decision that the Italians made: withdrawing a proposal to quarantine a large group returning from China after the move was criticized as "populist fearmongering": https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/21/world/europe/italy-coronavirus-center-lessons.html
Here is DeBlasio scolding others for there poor response to the virus -- and announcing that schools would reopen.
Later that day, he would reverse himself under threat of resignations by his public health staff, and stern admonitory words from Cuomo https://twitter.com/wesyang/status/1238951658006237186?s=20
Later that day, he would reverse himself under threat of resignations by his public health staff, and stern admonitory words from Cuomo https://twitter.com/wesyang/status/1238951658006237186?s=20
Here is DeBlasio assuring people that the disease cannot spread asymptomatically -- likely a falsehood https://twitter.com/AuerbachKeller/status/1239261622964817927
https://twitter.com/tweetbenmax/status/1244410771435671562?s=21 https://twitter.com/TweetBenMax/status/1244410771435671562
https://twitter.com/marklevinenyc/status/1247156159896748032?s=21 https://twitter.com/MarkLevineNYC/status/1247156159896748032
