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So it’s essentially come to this: President Trump is treating each of our 50 states as individual contestants on “The Apprentice” — pitting them against one another for scarce resources, daring them to duke it out — rather than mobilizing a unified national response to a pandemic. If that’s the case, this is the episode where New York loses. The coronavirus is whipping through the state, especially New York City, at a terrifying rate. We need personnel, ventilators and personal protective equipment, stat. But Trump’s response has been the same as President Gerald Ford’s in 1975, when our city, faltering on the brink of insolvency, begged Washington for help and was brutally rebuffed, a moment forever enshrined in The Daily News’s headline “FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD.” Now Trump is telling us the same. Literally Untold thousands will likely die absent federal intervention. And it needs to happen this instant — not just for the good of the city, but for the nation. The president needs to set a precedent in his hometown. On Tuesday morning, Gov. Andrew Cuomo opened his daily coronavirus briefing on a far more somber note than usual, noting that the number of cases was climbing at a faster rate than even the experts had predicted, doubling roughly every three days. “The apex is higher than we thought and the apex is sooner than we thought,” he said. “That is a bad combination of facts.” What it means, practically speaking: Our hospitals will soon be overwhelmed with Covid-19 patients. The governor has already said that the state is 30,000 ventilators short. The only way to acquire the volume we need — delivered at the speed we need — is through federal intervention, which means sending us the bulk of the ventilators from the strategic national stockpile, which has roughly 20,000, and deploying the Defense Production Act to force private manufacturers to make more. But that’s not what the president is doing. He refuses to use the Defense Production Act, fearing it’ll put an undue burden on business, and he’s keeping his federal stash under tight lock and key. On Tuesday morning, Cuomo confirmed that FEMA would be sending the state only 400 ventilators. (“What are we going to do with 400 ventilators when we need 30,000?” he asked.) Vice President Mike Pence later said he’d send New York 4,000 from the stockpile — a fine start, but nowhere near what New York needs. What is the president waiting for, and why is he hoarding — or let’s be charitable and say husbanding — his resources? Must the death toll in New York prove so calamitous he needs no further proof? Is he trying to make an example of his former home? “I will take personal responsibility for transporting the 20,000 ventilators anywhere in this country that they want, once we are past our apex,” Cuomo said. “But don’t leave them sitting in a stockpile, and say, ‘Well, we’re going to wait and see how we allocate them across the country.’ That’s not how this works.” It would be one thing if other states were in the same dire position as New York. But they aren’t. We have 10 times the number of cases as Washington and eight times that of California. New Yorkers are now locked in place, waiting for the wave to come. As of Tuesday night, Dr. Deborah Birx, the coordinator for the White House Coronavirus Task Force, recommends that New Yorkers self-quarantine if they leave the state. Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida is ordering anyone flying in from New York to self-quarantine for 14 days upon landing. I guess Trump likes the numbers where they are. I have news for him: They won’t stay that way. The idea that New York is an exception rather than a harbinger is madness. The rest of the country may regard New York as a black hole of need. But in fact the opposite has always been true; we’re forever sweeping more into the federal till than we receive in services. In 2018, according to the state comptroller’s office, we gave $26.6 billion more to Washington than we got back, ranking us dead last for federal benefits. Now, we finally have a native New Yorker in the White House to do something about this discrepancy. Instead, he’s the worst offender, and this time the consequences will be lethal. Part of me can’t help but wonder if Trump is just playing to his base, which views cities with suspicion, perhaps New York above all. We are multiculturalism personified — home of the United Nations, a place where 637 languages and dialects are spoken. A purée while the rest of the nation is vegetable soup, as Spalding Gray once lovingly said. Never mind that Trump is himself a creature of New York, just a different dimension of New York. Tabloid New York, real estate New York and (above all, and most ironically) global New York, which made possible his worldwide hotels, his construction projects made of Chinese steel, his loans from Deutsche Bank. It’s a New York he now disavows. A New York he now blames. But it was New York that made him a reality television star. And what reality television prizes more than anything, we’ve learned, is a Darwinian frame of mind. The contestants aren’t there to make friends. They’re there to destroy each other. They’re there to win. Only the best win. But this is not a game. Trump has no clue how to marshal the forces of federal government, which he stripped down to the studs. He has no unifying instincts at all. New York will be gasping for breath, and the other states will soon follow. Unless he takes action, now. Source

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Parent low pressure over southwestern Quebec on Sunday night will rapidly weaken and elongate, eventually giving way to a secondary low forming somewhere along or near the New England coast. Deep cyclonic flow and plenty of wrap around moisture will keep the threat of precipitation in the forecast for Sunday night through Monday, albeit much more showery in nature. Progressively cooler air will also filter across the region with rainshowers possibly mixing with a bit of wet snow across the Tug Hill and western Dacks Sunday night. Upper low and coastal low will finally start to pull east of the area Monday night, with just the chance for some lingering rain and higher elevation snow showers across the area Monday night into Tuesday morning.

Somebody probably sees a nice late season Snowfall..

Now the teleconnections wanna start improving lol Every year same story..

All 3 confirmed cases in Oswego county have come from people that traveled out of state or country..All isolated cases at this time...

I haven't heard a car pass my road in 2 days lol People are actually taking is seriously here.. My girl told me town has been dead, litterly no one out unless they have to be.. Even essential places are closing early, 8-9pm..

Still there..

Latest update

Los Angeles County confirmed four more deaths linked to the coronavirus on Tuesday, including the first of a person under the age of 18

SARS-CoV-2 RNA was identified on a variety of surfaces in cabins of both symptomatic and asymptomatic infected passengers up to 17 days after cabins were vacated on the Diamond Princess but before disinfection procedures had been conducted (Takuya Yamagishi, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, personal communication, 2020). Although these data cannot be used to determine whether transmission occurred from contaminated surfaces, further study of fomite transmission of SARS-CoV-2 aboard cruise ships is warranted CDC

At least 90% of cases are in NYC,LI and downstate.. Upstate "hotspots" are near the "bigger" cities for obvious reasons..

Listed by the department of health LAST UPDATE: MARCH 24, 2020 | 2:49PM Albany 146 Allegany 2 Broome 7 Cayuga 2 Chenango 3 Clinton 6 Columbia 10 Cortland 2 Delaware 3 Dutchess 124 Erie 107 Essex 3 Fulton 1 Genesee 1 Greene 4 Hamilton 2 Herkimer 4 Jefferson 2 Livingston 3 Madison 4 Monroe 96 Montgomery 3 Nassau 2,869 Niagara 10 New York City 14,904 Oneida 7 Onondaga 52 Ontario 6 Orange 498 Oswego 1 Otsego 1 Putnam 45 Rensselaer 29 Rockland 671 Saratoga 53 Schenectady 44 Schoharie 1 St. Lawrence 1 Steuben 4 Suffolk 1,880 Sullivan 23 Tioga 1 Tompkins 15 Ulster 35 Warren 2 Washington 3 Wayne 6 Westchester 3,891 Wyoming 4

Probably wouldn't equate to much but it would be another wintry like day, April fool's no less..

Euro still with the day 8/9 potential. Mixed bag verbatim..

Doesn't the governor of the state make the call when restrictions are lifted? He was the one to enable them in the first place..Not all states are under the same restrictions..

I'm not sure how often that updates but it just did.. It could of been an error as well..

Yeah gives us something to follow even if it's all fantasy lol

Less than 5" now according to Patrick

Latest numbers provided to us.. My home country of Germany must be healthier than some of the other European nations given the fatality rate compared to total cases..

So they decided to lock down my girls work at RAC which is a huge relief to me.. Honestly at this point I'd rather her draw unemployment the next few months and take the hit, my bank will work with me...It is impossible for me and her to get the virus if we are both locked in the house..I have almost no human contact unless I go into town...I will know soon enough... Right now my main focus is health not money, I'll worry about debt when this virus is under control..