Originally Posted by Seneca Pilot

Actually the earliest cases were on the west coast, not the east. And the first wave in NY wasn't that bad in comparison with the rest of the country. Where NY really lost the battle was the second wave in the fall. The mistrust of Cuomo following the terrible handling of the nursing home situation combined with the mishandling of the lock downs that I linked the quote about in my earlier post meant that people had had enough by then. He and De Blasio had literally welded or chained park gates closed so children had nowhere to play during the summer. Terrible leadership.