{"id":73928,"date":"2020-04-29T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73928"},"modified":"2020-07-29T08:09:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T13:09:05","slug":"indecency-plus-blue-fragility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73928","title":{"rendered":"Indecency Plus Blue Fragility"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Governor Cuomo’s “Marie Antoinette” moment<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Democrat fielded questions Wednesday while angry protesters outside expressed their displeasure with ongoing shutdown policies. A reporter said she spoke to many of the protesters and found them to be \u201cregular people who are not getting a paycheck.\u201d<\/p>

\u201cSome of them are not getting their unemployment check and they\u2019re saying that they don\u2019t have time to wait for all of this testing and they need to get back to work in order to feed their family,\u201d she said, CBS News reported. \u201cTheir savings are running out. They don\u2019t have another week. They\u2019re not getting answers. So, their point is, the cure can\u2019t be worse than the illness itself. What is your response to that?\u201d<\/p>

Mr. Cuomo<\/a>\u2019s response suggested that government-imposed shutdowns might exist as long as a single person was at risk of dying from the contagion.<\/p>

\u201cThe illness is death,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat is worse than death? Economic hardship? Yes, very bad. Not death. Emotional stress from being locked in a house \u2014 very bad. Not death. Domestic violence on the increase \u2014 very bad. Not death.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This seems to be the tack the “shutdownists” – a term I use advisedly, as it seems to be almost a matter of religious faith among its adherents<\/a> – use; the only alternative to completely shudown is mass death. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then (with emphasis added):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reporter countered that protesters are in an untenable position, given that they cannot pay immediate bills while simultaneously being told they cannot work.<\/p>

\u201cThey can\u2019t wait for the money,\u201d she said. \u201cThey\u2019re out of money.\u201d<\/p>

\u201cThey can say, \u2018Unemployment insurance isn\u2019t enough,\u2019\u201d the Democrat replied. \u201cI get it. Even with the $600 check and the $1,200 check, and the unemployment benefit is not enough. I understand the economic hardship. We all feel it. The question is, \u2018What do you do about it?\u2019 And do you put public health at risk? And do you drive up the number of deaths for it, because you have no idea how to reopen now.\u201d<\/p>

Mr. Cuomo<\/a> was then asked if a fundamental right to work exists if \u201cthe government can\u2019t get [citizens] the money\u201d they need in a timely manner.<\/p>

\u201cYou want to go to work?\u201d Mr. Cuomo<\/a> replied. \u201cGo take a job as an essential worker.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Preferably as a dues-paying public union member, no doubt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Governor Cuomo’s “Marie Antoinette” moment: The Democrat fielded questions Wednesday while angry protesters outside expressed their displeasure with ongoing shutdown policies. A reporter said she spoke to many of the protesters and found them to be \u201cregular people who are not getting a paycheck.\u201d \u201cSome of them are not getting their unemployment check and they\u2019re […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,57,416,51],"tags":[423],"class_list":["post-73928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue-fragility","category-economy-and-the-market","category-covid19","category-liberal-tyranny","tag-the-endless-emergency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73928"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73942,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73928\/revisions\/73942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}