1/ If the trends of the last few days weren't clear enough, @NYGovCuomo's press conference today leaves no room for doubt: new hospitalizations in New York, the center of the epidemic, fell to 358 - a 75% drop in four days.
Great. Obviously. But.
Great. Obviously. But.
2/ This is likely to unwind fast now. We will all be told how wonderful it is that we've dodged a bullet, that the lockdowns worked. (But how we need them just a few weeks longer!) And there will every effort to count every #COVID death, to get the number as high as possible...
3/ So. When you hear all this: Remember time lags. Remember how we count (or don't bother to count) flu deaths. Remember the media and political panic of the last three weeks. Remember how we trashed the Constitution. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/rhode-island-police-troops-stopping-incoming-new-yorkers-force-quarantine-n1171106
4/ Remember what we've done to our economy, how we've put more than 10,000,000 Americans - probably closer to 20,000,000 - out of work. Remember the choices we've made, and why we made them. Demand answers. Demand accountability.
Attention must be paid.
Attention must be paid.