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New York Governor announces 100% workforce reduction for non-essential services

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I'm glad that the favorite son could do the right thing for the state of NY, particularly when their positive cases are exploding.

"Better late than never" stays true, but when you're fighting against an invisible enemy (because of little testing) that invades exponentially quickly, "late" will unfortunately have a high human lives cost associated to it.

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> Mass transit will remain operational and restaurants, food delivery and bank will remain in service. This kind of article would really benefit from a quick bulleted list at the top, I had to skim to get this essential info

nyc.gov has a helpful list.

https://esd.ny.gov/guidance-executive-order-2026

I was worried, because I just dropped my clothes off at the laundromat.

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I'm glad that the favorite son could do the right thing for the state of NY, particularly when their positive cases are exploding.

Cuomo loves half-measures and taking credit for not doing much of anything.

There's no force of law behind this order.

Earlier this week he announced "mortgage relief," but its means-tested and difficult to actually navigate. It won't help.

A year or 2 ago he rolled out his "free college for every new yorker" plan. It benefits about 10% of the population.

Cuomo's only skill is talking a big game. He's exactly as bad as most other neolibs.

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There is currently no plan in place to penalize individuals for gathering socially Then people won't take the rules seriously. Lots of people in this country still don't believe or understand how much damage this virus can inflict.

Legally, does the state and federal goverment have the power to control the movement of people?

Does the state have the power to control my movement from my own home to the end of the street for my daily walk?

Re: New York Governor announces 100% workforce reduction for non-essential services

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There is currently no plan in place to penalize individuals for gathering socially Then people won't take the rules seriously. Lots of people in this country still don't believe or understand how much damage this virus can inflict.

Even if people meet socially outside of work, they still aren't _required_ to go to work. Which means a lot of people can practice social distancing. People are scared, many will avoid groups (others may throw parties, but can't help that).

I know in my neighborhood, everyone is outside but we are all maintaining 2 meter distance. Some neighbors even brought up their grills and stayed seperate but can talk (at a distance).

Re: New York Governor announces 100% workforce reduction for non-essential services

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I'm glad that the favorite son could do the right thing for the state of NY, particularly when their positive cases are exploding.

Alas he is the reason it didn't come sooner in NYC https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ny-gov-cuomo-says-no-ne...
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