Andrew Cuomo is either dense or a charlatan. I'm guessing a bit of both.
At his "briefing" today, he expresses surprise that the rate of infection of hospital workers is low. He credits his arranging for PPE for that. He either doesn't realize or ignores that hospital workers are always exposed to germs and viruses and are experienced in protecting themselves. The only difference about the Wuhan virus is that's it's more contagious, not more deadly.
Certainly we should be grateful to hospital workers. But the media, spurred by the politicians, are going overboard on this, likely from a sense of guilt. Hospital workers are just doing their job, like most of the rest of us try to do. The media treat this as if the workers going to work are like the charge of the light brigade, risking almost certain death. But the data are beginning to show that it's pretty much life as usual for them. If they've been underappreciated in the past by the elite, it's great that the elitists may henceforth be a bit more humble.
And health workers aren't stupid. They're already beginning to make noise about higher pay. Cuomo and his ilk have labeled them "heroes" and you know what comes next.
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