{"id":74153,"date":"2020-05-19T06:46:03","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T11:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74153"},"modified":"2020-07-29T08:04:53","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T13:04:53","slug":"densely-packed-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74153","title":{"rendered":"Densely Packed People"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Politics is the least effective possible way to get things done&#8221; is a tight paraphrase of one of my favorite Kevin Williamson quotes.   And it may as well be the theme <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/two-coasts-one-virus-how-new-york-suffered-nearly-10-times-the-number-of-deaths-as-california\">in this piece, from far-from-right <em>Pro Publica<\/em><\/a>,   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pullquote from among many contenders: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>[San Francisco Mayor London] Breed, it turns out, had sent de Blasio a copy of her detailed shelter-in-place order. She thought New York might benefit from it.<\/p><p>New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, however, reacted to de Blasio\u2019s idea for closing down New York City with derision. It was dangerous, he said, and served only to scare people. Language mattered, Cuomo said, and \u201cshelter-in-place\u201d sounded like it was a response to a nuclear apocalypse.<\/p><p>Moreover, Cuomo said, he alone had the power to order such a measure.<\/p><p>For years, Cuomo and de Blasio, each of whom has harbored national political ambitions, had engaged in a kind of intrastate cold war, a rivalry that to many often felt childish and counterproductive. When de Blasio finally decided to close the city\u2019s schools, it was Cuomo who rushed to make the public announcement, claiming it as his decision.<\/p><p>\u201cNo city in the state can quarantine itself without state approval,\u201d Cuomo said of de Blasio\u2019s call for a shelter-in-place order. \u201cI have no plan whatsoever to quarantine any city.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Cuomo\u2019s conviction didn\u2019t last. On March 22, he, too, shuttered his state. The action came six days after San Francisco had shut down, five days after de Blasio suggested doing similarly and three days after all of California had been closed by Newsom. By then, New York faced a raging epidemic, with the number of confirmed cases at 15,000 doubling every three or four days.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Being a leftist publication, the elephant in the room &#8211; population density is a key vector of transmission &#8211; got skipped.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But tinhorn imperial personality poiltics?  That just plain killec. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Politics is the least effective possible way to get things done&#8221; is a tight paraphrase of one of my favorite Kevin Williamson quotes. And it may as well be the theme in this piece, from far-from-right Pro Publica, Pullquote from among many contenders: [San Francisco Mayor London] Breed, it turns out, had sent de Blasio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416,51],"tags":[423],"class_list":["post-74153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19","category-liberal-tyranny","tag-the-endless-emergency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74153","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=74153"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74174,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74153\/revisions\/74174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}