NYC Councilman Stephen Levin: "We are going to have to shutdown NYC in the coming days"

[Dennis Donovan]

((Stephen Levin))) ✔@StephenLevin33

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I just want to make this clear. We are going to have to #shutdownNYC in the coming days, just like they are doing in Spain and France today. @NYCMayor @NYGovCuomo We have two options-Option 1) We can shut down in an orderly, rational way starting tomorrow morning that accounts 1/

For how to take care of our most vulnerable people, the elderly, the sick at home, children who need school meals, those on fixed income who rely on #SNAP & food pantries, first responders, essential workers, healthcare workers and their families. This will be a historic & G-d 2/

Willing Successful civic #calltoactionNYC like we did after 9/11 and Sandy-we can do that because we’ve done it before. Option 2) we wait around and deny the inevitable. That means we shut down amid chaos, overrun hospitals, emergency departments who can’t take any more 3/

Patients and all the tragedy and suffering that ensues. The choice is as clear as day and is only getting clearer. We need to start a shutdown process for NYC tomorrow, no later. Any delay will undoubtably only cause more suffering. 4/

11:22 PM - Mar 14, 2020

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[evertonfc]

1. it will be an interesting experiment

Catastrophic economics loss, housing collapse and hunger. If you think the govt can bail you out- your screwed.

[Runningdawg]

2. Well, they can try...anxious to see to what lengths they will go to stop the stubborn.

[Renew Deal]

4. Ha. Me too

They're going to need the Navy to keep people from leaving.

[Renew Deal]

3. Are they going to blockade the city too?

[Dennis Donovan]

6. Paging DU's Snake Plissken

[marble falls]

5. Dammit Dennis, where's your mask???

[Dennis Donovan]

7. It stopped being funny around last Wed.

[marble falls]

8. I didn't take it as joke. I took it as a gentle reminder of how we need to think about ...

this crisis as we go on about our altered routines. We need to maintain but be cautious.

[getagrip_already]

9. what does that even mean?

It's a city of what, 7 million people? Manhattan alone is almost 2 million people.

They still have to eat. They still need to get deliveries of critical supplies. They still need prescriptions filled.

[BumRushDaShow]

10. Even if you can keep half the people off the streets

it will help reduce the spread to allow time to get services ramped up.

New England and MidAtlantic folks have dealt with blizzards having feet of snow forced people to be home-bound - at least for a few days - because the streets were not plowed nor were sidewalks shoveled.

Many of us think that we are already going through an "orderly shutdown" as it is... notably here in PA in the Philly metro area. In one respect, the fact that this is not happening in the middle of summer when so many more people would normally be outside for whatever reason, might be helpful in this instance (despite the mild winter that we've had so far).