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Governor Cuomo Pandemic Update May 6 2020
Last edited Wed May 6, 2020, 01:06 PM - Edit history (1)
"Our freedoms to assemble, to speak our minds, to ignore good advice, and to second-guess authority can facilitate the spread of a virus. "We're not China -- we can't order people to stay inside. Democracy is a great thing, but it means, for something like COVID-19, we have to persuade people to cooperate if we want to save their lives." Dr. Richard Besser, former CDC director and alum of The Epidemic Intelligence Service
excerpt from Charles Duhigg. "The Pandemic Protocol" The New Yorker, May 4 2020.
