Wonderful: Mayor Invoice de Blasio turns from imperiously telling New Yorkers they’ll’t hit the seaside within the metropolis to only as imperiously telling Lengthy Island it will possibly’t maintain metropolis residents off its seashores.
He gained’t belief his residents to be prudent — however different leaders should belief those self same individuals?
De Blasio’s all the time been ham-fisted, however his warning that individuals would “be taken proper out of the water” in the event that they defy his ban takes the cake. Particularly coming simply days after he retreated from having cops implement different social-distancing orders.
Lengthy Island leaders, realizing they’d have to limit their seashores to half the traditional crowds, opted to order them for residents — the oldsters who pay huge native taxes to help these seashores. Completely cheap.
But Blas whines, on PIX 11: “This shouldn’t be about any unwell feeling towards individuals relying on the place they arrive from.”
Out of doors transmission of the virus is minimal, and lots of New Yorkers are already defying distancing mandates. Full lockdown isn’t sustainable now — and summer season is coming, with temps quickly to hit the 90s.
Strive trusting the general public, Mr. Mayor. And, please, assume issues by earlier than you open your mouth once more.