https://twitter.com/NYGovCuomo/status/1348673192609591296

  • AOCAB [he/him,any]
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    4 years ago

    In reality, what is actually closed? It seems like the only thing that's actually restricted is eating indoors at restaurants. If covid ended tomorrow I'd throw a party and invite family and friends that I haven't seen/only seen sparingly. What does that have to do with economy?

    • regul [any]
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      4 years ago

      Bars I guess? Broadway? Idk, even if NYC were fully open, the amount of tourists they usually get still wouldn't be there so the economy will still have shrunk dramatically.

  • longhorn617 [any]
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    4 years ago

    Me, in the middle of a zombie apocalypse, being eaten by a horde of the undead on the street: "WE HAVE TO KEEP THE ECONOMY OPEN!"

  • ass [he/him,comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    i think there's some rhetoric coach who instructs these people to add those little pivot phrases like "but we must do it smartly and safely" at the ends of statements

    makes it sound like they're just reasonable pragmatists making compromises

    • MagisterSinister [he/him,comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      It's also important to drop this at the end of the statement because then you don't have to get into what smartly and safely is supposed to mean.

  • curmudgeonthefrog [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    A week ago this fucker literally stopped the distribution of the vaccine so he could change it to his rules instead of county rules.