People are making it out like Cuomo has something against religious people.
The virus doesn't really care about bars vs. pews. It will spread wherever it's allowed to spread.
For instance, as far as I'm concerned the governors should have prohibited Trump from holding those superspreader rallies--and not all of them were in red states. The biker rally in the midwest was also a totally predictable tragedy. The penetration of COVID-19 into the midwest is directly attributable to that convention. It never should have been allowed to take place. The health of the many outweigh the wants of the few. Ideals of freedom need to be put aside in an extreme situation like this.
We've had a half-assed approach to this from the start and that's exactly why we are where we are. We merely advise people to "do the right thing", like Fauci warning about Thanksgiving, and we proceed to
clog up the airports.
So just wait 3-4 weeks and we should see the daily case and death counts double.
Again and again you have people continue to doubt common sense because, well, it's inconvenient and costly. They are wearing their own reality goggles based on their wants, fears, and desires. You see the same thing playing out with the mass delusion the right is under that the election was stolen rather than dear leader(TM) having lost fair and square (largely in part due to minority voters like in Georgia and Michigan--target of so many Giuliani lawsuits).
The only silver lining is the vaccines and even then, Trump's demo are the type who won't take it because it
"makes the frogs gay", despite their Trump-worship. But even if everyone takes it, it's the equivalent of an obese person installing a lap-band. It makes it so we don't have to really address the root problem of society not being able to cope during a pandemic.
Next time something like COVID arrives we will wind up going through this same hell all over again, the denial, the wishful thinking, the resistance against masks and lockdowns and restrictions.
We are DAMN LUCKY that medical technology has had this revolution that has enabled vaccines to be developed so soon. If we had followed a more traditional path (5-10 year cycle) we really would be facing an end of the world as we know it scenario rather than a horrible but ultimately passing international tragedy.
And as bad as the US has been, it hasn't been all us either. Europe got its second wave in large part because it let ITS guard down too. This sort of thing just makes me that much more cynical about human nature than I already am.
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