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As a resident of #NY let me explain what you seem not to know. The city that never sleeps was empty. The loudest sounds at night were the sirens of the ambulances taking COVID patients to the hospital. And people still people died https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/1276667673158574081
Healthcare workers who had seen everything broken by the stress, not knowing if they would get sick, not knowing if their family would get sick. Having to be family for patients whose families couldn’t visit. And still people died
Sitting at home. Wondering if that sniffle or cough in your loved one was the first sign of tragedy. Not being able to get a test because there were no tests. Being relived that that sniffle stopped. All while people died
Having to worry about how to get food. How to get medicine. How to save money and educate the kids at home. All while people died.
Checking “the numbers” where you live everyday. Are they up? Are they down? How bad will it get? Who else will die?
Living for the daily updates from @NYGovCuomo who gave you the facts, the hard facts, tha bad news but still showed humanity. Being comforted because he was advocating for us, making a plan getting tests, getting supplies. All while people died.
Crying while watching the USS Comfort come into N.Y. Harbor because maybe, just maybe our government heard us. Felt our fear. Was finally sending help. All while people died.
Watching the bogus press conferences by the WH and realizing they didn’t care. They weren’t going to send real help. Only cared about $. Not the people who died.
Realizing we were on our own. That the only thing we had was our Governor and each other. And realizing more people would die.
So let me tell you about human things....
Volunteers from around the country coming to help. Upstate healcare workers leaving their homes to help their colleagues downstate. Not knowing what they would find. And still people died.
Veterinary hospitals, dentists, trades workers, research labs going through their drawers and cupboards looking for PPE, not for themselves, but to send to healthcare workers. And still people died.
Universities, research labs, veterinary hospitals, dentists finding ventilators, anesthesia machines and everyday people turning over their CPAPs to help the stricken breath. And still people died.
People setting up food aid cabinets, checking on the elderly, putting teddy bears in their windows for children to find. Children drawing rainbows and putting them in windows. All while people died.
Teacher’s aids dressing in funny costumes to deliver food to kids who’s only meals came from school...which was canceled. All while people died
Grocery store workers, delivery people, farmers-going to work despite the risk because they were essential. All while people died.
Now fewer people are dying. We flattened our curve. People are still dying but not as many.
We are slowly coming out. Cautiously. Not quite believing we can, but really wanting some normal.
So we, who have been to hell, and are coming back, beg you to do human things.
Not the human things @marcorubio is talking about, but the human things we did in NY. Help each other. Realize it’s not about you. It’s about us. We will send help, prayers and advice.
But our big lesson to you..like us you need to realize, your government is not capable of helping. You don’t even have an advocate in your Governor. All you have is each other.
