Governor Cuomo Update July 24 2020

American Black Lives Matter protestors are not the enemy

The racist disaster

Governor Cuomo Update July 23 2020

This has been a stress test of government performance. Under the COVID stress test, we've seen what governments could perform and what they couldn't. It tested character of the people of the state.

Contact tracing does find super spreaders.

Government has to work.

After six months, we know what COVID is about. We must learn the lessons of those months.

Reopening was never the question. Yes, but follow the science and the metrics.

Careless, rushed, incompetent reopening vs. phased, smart reopening shows the results of ignoring and adhering to science.

Rushed reopenings have not helped the economy. The political debate should end. Facts should rule.

The NY quarantine is to stop a ricochet of the first wave: NY police are at airports, entrants must fill out forms, and travelers' ignorance is no excuse.

We're helping Atlanta and other states. Monitoring young people age 21-30, whose numbers are up.

To young people: this is not the time to "fight for your right to party;" do not ignore the facts; respect local law enforcement.

To taker Republicans: there will be no recovery without funding for state and local governments.

Re troops: Like Chicago, NY has had some crime uptick. However, there is no endangered federal property in NY; the Constitution states that there is no policing of states from the federal level; if federal agents were sent, NY would sue; I will hold the president to his word to talk if anything "changed."

AN AIR FORCE SPECIAL OPERATIONS SURVEILLANCE PLANE IS LURKING NEAR PORTLAND DURING FEDERAL CRACKDOWN

Surveillance & Safety Apps.

It's better to have one and not need it than need it and not have it.

Trumpgoons are out in Detroit, Portland and Chicago. If you live in a big city, they might be near you.

If you know of any other good ones, please share.

1. “Hands Up 4 Justice,” (iPhone and Android) allows people to discreetly record interactions with police officers during traffic stops, etc. http://ww12.handsuptheapp.com

The app integrates emergency contacts and GPS,
uploads to YouTube or a Dropbox account. Kirkwood wanted to make it easier for people of color (who are disproportionately stopped by police on US highways) to record their interactions without fear of intimidation.

2. The ACLU's app allows anyone to film interactions between police and citizens and upload footage to the ACLU’s website.
https://www.aclu.org/issues/criminal-law-reform/reforming-police/aclu-apps-record-police-conduct

3. “I’m Getting Arrested,” is a free Android app that instantly sends texts to emergency contacts that you’ve pre-programmed into your phone.

4. “Stop and Frisk Watch” allows you to report police misconduct as well as connect with other users via community feeds.
https://www.nyclu.org/en/stop-and-frisk-watch-app

Governor Cuomo Pandemic Update July 20 2020

50,000 tests daily
Positive rate = 1%
No warning signs or trouble spots across regions

We have to protect the progress we have made and not let the infection rate pick up, remain vigilant against two growing main threats:

-- the congregating of young people, who stupidly spread the virus by getting sick;
-local police have not enforced the law because it's unpopular;
-since bad businesses exploit the economy, they make it worse for the good ones;
-police are not there to inform, but enforce the law, the line between anarchy and civilization;

-- the infection increase across the country; it will affect New York
-an outbreak anywhere is an outbreak everywhere;
-quarantining and state border control is impossible to enforce with absolute certainty.

When we needed help, 30,000 health professionals around the country came to New York. Their courage, heroism, love, generosity would never be forgotten. We are paying it back to CA, OR, the New England Patriots' owner. Whatever they need, we will be there to pay them forward. We send drugs to FL, GA and TX while this government is still in denial, plays politics.

The solution is medicine and science. Still the country is as unprepared as Day 1.
We go to Mayor Van Johnson in Savannah today.

Thank you, America, for what you did for us.
We the people of New York won't forget, and we will be there for you when you need it.

NOAA's Hurricane Prediction 2020

Hurricanes are hard enough on the Southeast when folks are well.

Heaven help those hurricane zone states now suffering high COVID hospitalizations and deaths.

As Mary Trump says, her uncle takes pleasure in others' misery. He'll contract out disaster money to those who give him a kickback, and little from this WH occupant will reach them in any timely way, not even tossed paper towels. These states had better stockpile emergency supplies even more this year.

Hurricanes usually show up by late August.

Trump Prepping Federal Invasion Of "Radical Left" of Chicago and New York

Homeland Security making plans to deploy some 150 agents in Chicago this week

Source: Chicago Tribune

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is crafting plans to deploy about 150 federal agents to Chicago this week, the Chicago Tribune has learned, a move that would come amid growing controversy nationally about federal force being used in American cities.

The Homeland Security Investigations, or HSI, agents are set to assist other federal law enforcement and Chicago police in crime-fighting efforts, according to sources familiar with the matter, though a specific plan on what the agents will be doing had not been made public.

Later Monday, Lightfoot sent a four-page letter to Trump saying that, despite his “misplaced and incendiary rhetoric,” she will take him at his word that he wants to help Chicago.

As news of the plans spread, leaders of the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois issued a strongly worded statement opposing the move.



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