Gov. Kathy Hochul prolonged New York's "catastrophe emergency" Tuesday.
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Democrats hate “losing” a very good disaster, however Gov. Kathy Hochul is taking it to new extremes by milking the 2020 pandemic: On Tuesday, she prolonged the state’s “catastrophe emergency” but once more, citing COVID.
When will this madness finish? The nation is into its third yr for the reason that outbreak, and it’s been 18 months since vaccines grew to become obtainable (Two weeks to flatten the curve? Ha!).
Hochul clearly seeks to cling to her added “momentary” powers by dragging out the “emergency” for so long as she will. The extension lets her proceed to bypass the Legislature and modify or droop sure legal guidelines — and pander to hysterics among the many Democrats’ base.
But she presents no sound justification for the transfer, since each sane New Yorker realizes the “emergency” is lengthy over. She notes “over 100” new COVID-19 hospital admissions a day, however New York has properly over 100 hospitals — in order that averages to lower than one admission per hospital. How’s that an “emergency”?
Certainly, COVID numbers in New York have been trending down for weeks: Hospitalizations topped 18,000 in April 2020 and 12,000 in January; on Monday, they had been beneath 2,000. In a state with almost 20 million individuals.
Sure, the bug continues to unfold, however new day by day instances plummet additional with each passing day. Apart from, individuals who take a look at constructive normally undergo solely gentle signs at most. Every day statewide deaths with COVID (not essentially from it) have dropped to the one digits.
Once more, the place’s the “emergency”?
In the meantime, Hochul is all too completely happy to have her well being commissioner hold ordering mass-transit riders to masks up, even whereas not requiring them in quite a few different congested areas. Straphangers and LIRR/MetroNorth riders should really feel like suckers in comparison with their maskless counterparts on NJ Transit.
Significantly: NJ Transit riders are experiencing completely no COVID surge. Possibly that’s why so many riders are ignoring Hochul’s masks guidelines.
Republicans seeking to substitute Hochul as governor, in contrast, have vowed to carry any remaining COVID mandates and make New York regular once more, like most of America. That’s nice — however should the state elect a brand new gov to lastly put this post-pandemic lunacy behind it?
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