Gov. Cuomo responds to Republicans: 'My mother is not expendable and your mother is not expendable'

[kpete]

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“My mother is not expendable and your mother is not expendable and our brothers and sisters are not expendable and we're not going to accept a premise that human life is disposable.” And while I’m not a particularly big fan of Andrew Cuomo, he is honestly one of the only frequently interviewed politicians acting like an adult and saying adult things about our current crisis. Cuomo went on to try and make the GOP’s position that much clearer, explaining that “we're not going to put a dollar figure on human life.”

CUOMO: First order of business is save lives period. Whatever it costs. Now, I also don't believe it's an either/or. I believe you can have an intelligent, refined public health strategy. We talk about risk stratification. You can have people go to work. You can test people and find out that they are resolved from the virus. Let them go back to work. You can have younger people go back to work. You can have an economic start-up strategy that is consistent with the public health strategy. It's smart. It's complicated. It's sophisticated. But that's what government is supposed to do, right? That whole concept of develop government policy and program. You can do both.

CUOMO: But not in a clumsy ham-handed way, right? Well, we'll just sacrifice old people. They're old people anyway. And the old get left behind. What is this? Some modern Darwinian theory of natural selection? You can't keep up so the band is going to leave you behind. We're going to move on and if you can't keep up, you just fall by the wayside of life. God forbid.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/24/1930747/-Gov-Cuomo-responds-to-Republicans-My-mother-is-not-expendable-and-your-mother-is-not-expendable

[Phoenix61]

1. "Not in a clumsy, ham-handed way"

That scratches out anything Twitler would come up with.

[magicguido]

2. A True Leader. The contrast with the orange guy is Night and Day