The increase on the trajectory of cases continues to climb. 76, 81. A couple of updates that i would like to make to the local Health Providers. We want to anticipate the situation. We talked yesterday about planning forward, getting ahead of it, that we have been behind on this virus from day one. Rather than be reactive, be proactive, get ahead of it. Local Health Providers should be watching what is going on in different parts of the state and anticipating what is going to happen. This is going to be a phenomenon of a rolling apex. We talk about the rolling apex, the top of the curve. The top of the curve will occur at different times in different places. The curve is a function of the rate of spread, the rate of spread. You will see different curves. You see it all across the country. It started in washington. Now you see new york, chicago, new orleans, parts of california. That rolling apex is happening across the country. It will also happen across new york. The current projections all say new york city will face the first high water mark, if you will, high tide mark of the curve. Then you will see westchester, you will see long island on a delay with their curve, hitting new heights. Model projectors are not sure if it is westchester first or long island first. Some suggest it is westchester because we have that cluster in westchester in new rochelle. Then upstate new york. We expect a curve in upstate new york, it may not be as high as new york city, westchester, long island, but there will be a curve. If you are not in a highly affected health area now, that does not mean you are not going to have a real situation to deal with because these numbers are going to continue to go up all across the state. For local Health Systems, this is a new challenge. Most Health Systems have Public Hospitals and private hospitals or volunteer, voluntary hospitals. They basically exist on a daytoday basis as two different systems. You have Public Hospitals and then you have the private hospital system. For all intents and purposes, in normal operating procedures, they operate as two systems. There is little interaction. There is also little interaction among individual hospitals, sometimes even within their own system. You have Public Hospitals that are part of a Public Hospital system, but each hospital basically operates on its own, has its own identity. Certainly true on the private side, where you have individual hospitals and they operate on their own. We have to change that mentality and change that mentality quickly. No hospital is an island. No hospital, in this situation can exist, unto themselves. We have to have a new mentality, a new culture of hospitals working with one another, both within the public system as well as the private system and we need to think about the public system working with the private system in a way they never had before. There is an artificial wall between those two systems right now. That has to come down. This is going to be all hands on deck. This is everybody helping there is an artificial wall between those two systems right everyone else. One hospital gets overwhelmed, the other hospitals have to flex to help that hospital and vice versa. We have elmhurst hospital in new york city that is under stress, the number of cases is high. When the number of cases is high, the stress on the staff is high. I was speaking with a doctor about this. You do this for 2, 3, 4 weeks, the level of stress is intense. Elmhurst hospital is part of a Public Health system of about 11 hospitals in new york city, that system has to work together. Those hospitals have to work together. The 11 hospitals in new york city, the public system. Im going to ask mayor de blasio and the controller to take a look at the system and figure out how we can get that system to work Better Together as a unified system. This is not going to get better soon. Elmhurst is under stress now. That stress does not abate for the foreseeable shortterm future. So how do we make that system work Better Together . What recommendations do we have to improve h h . We will also be meeting with the private hospitals in new york city that are organized through the Greater New York hospital association, i will meet with them tomorrow to talk about having those hospitals also organize, act as one, get out of their silos, get out of their identities, to work together. Overall, you have these local Health Systems, the states role is getting those Health Systems to work with one another. We talked about if new york city gets overwhelmed, we ask the upstate systems to be a relief valve for the downstate Health Systems. Which has never happened before to any scale. And also vice versa. There will be a time where the upstate hospitals will be struggling and when they will be struggling, we want the downstate hospitals to be able to take over and relieve those hospitals. That is the advantage of the rolling curve that they are projecting. If it happens that way, theoretically, i think of it as a high tide mark, high tide comes first in new york city, then the tide is on the way if it happens that way, down, then it is high tide in upstate new york. So if the tide is dropping downstate, you have some relief for the upstate hospitals. We put in place the new York Pause Program today, im going to extend it to april 15, the directive that not essential state workforce continue to work from home. We are doing it in two week intervals. Every day is a new day. We will see what happens day to day. I think it is not questionable today that we are going to need two more weeks of nonessential workers. Good news, the new York State Department of health has developed a less intrusive saliva and short nasal swab test. I am not sure what a short nasal swab test is, but my guess is it would not apply to me. It can be administered in the presence of health care workers, it requires less ppe, healthcare workers can selfadminister it. Kudos to the department of health on that. It helps limit exposure for healthcare workers and it should start as soon as next week. People ask, when is this over . I think the testing you tell me when they come up with an inexpensive, home test, or pointofcare test that can be brought to volume, i think that is probably when you see a real return to normalcy in the workforce. We are talking about this curve, flatten the curve, at what point on the other side of the curve do you go back to work . There is no answer. I think the answer is going to be in testing. Dr. Fauci, who we are blessed to have him here at this time, he talks about faster, easier testing. If you can test millions of people, if you can test today millions of people, you can send them to work tomorrow. The development of these tests are important. Tomorrow, the usns comfort is coming. That is about 1000 bed capacity. It is passed by federal officials, federal medical professionals. It is not for covid19 patients, but to take the backfill from hospitals. Stockpile, we are working to purchase equipment. We have a whole team working seven days a week. Unfortunately, we are competing against every other state for these same things. So it is very hard, but we are making progress. In terms of finding staff, that is going very well. The voluntarism of new yorkers, god bless them, up to 76,000 healthcare workers who volunteered. 76,000. 76,000 people who volunteer to go into these hospitals at this time. Think about that. On the total people tested, we did 16,000 last night. Total of 172,000 tested, the highest in the state highest in the country. Positive cases, 7000 last night. Total cases, 59,000. The virus continues its march across new york, only two counties now that dont have cases. These are the overall numbers. 59,000 people tested positive. 8000 hospitalized. 2000 icu patients. 3500 patients discharged. Nobody really points to these numbers, but this is good news. 846 people came out of hospitals yesterday, discharged, after being treated for covid. So yes, people get it, 80 have self resolved or some symptoms at home, 20 to go to the hospital. The majority of those get treated and leave. It is the acutely ill by and large who are the vulnerable population. That is what we are seeing more, the deaths went from 728 to 965. People are on the ventilator longer and longer. The longer you are on a ventilator, the less your chance of getting off that ventilator. That is what we are seeing. We continue to see the number of deaths increase. In terms of most impacted states, new york is still number one. Total new hospitalizations, these are the charts we look at every night. The number is up, 1175. It was 847 the night before. These bounce night to night, any one nights data could have a number of variables. What hospitals reported, when they reported, how accurate they were. You look for a trendline more than anything. There are trendlines. If you look early on, the hospitalization rate was doubling every two days. Then it doubled every three days, then every four days. Now it is doubling every six days. You have almost a dichotomy. The doubling rate is slowing and that is good news. But the number of cases are still going up. You are still going up towards an apex, but the rate of the doubling is slowing. Which is good news. Changing daily icu admission, you see a tick up in the icu admissions. You look for the trendline among those columns more than the individual columns. Change in daily intubations. We do not normally run this chart but these are the people who are most seriously affected. You see a trendline in that. You see some aberrations, march 26, but you see a trendline. The trendline is what we are watching. You also see a trendline in people being discharged. This is a dramatic trendline. People came in, they started to get treated, on march 18, we are talking about 10 days. They started to get treated. A few got out early. A few more, a few more, a few more. Now you are seeing the discharge number trend way up because that is what is going to happen. People going to the hospital, they get treated, they leave. Those that are acutely ill get put on a ventilator and then it is the inverse dynamic, the longer they are on the intubator, longer they are intubated, longer they are on the ventilator, the higher the mortality rate. Again, perspective, these are the numbers from day one since china started. Also, we should keep in mind, the First Responders, the 76,000 people who volunteered to help, medical professionals, being a First Responder today, being a Public Health official, working in a hospital, working with senior citizens, this is an act of love and courage. We lost detective cedric dixon, 48 years old. 23 year veteran. Could have retired. We wish him and his family peace. We lost a nurse, a couple other nurses. 48 years old, the assistant nurse manager at sinai west. We wish his family the best. These Public People i dont even have the words to express my admiration for them. Fdr always had words. Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that Something Else is more important than fear. That says it all. Everyone is afraid. You think these Police Officers are not afraid to leave their house . You think these nurses are not afraid to go into the hospital . They are afraid. But something is more important than their fear. Which is their passion, their commitment for Public Service and helping others. Thats all it is. Their passion and belief in helping others. That overcomes their fear. That makes them, in my book, truly amazing, outstanding human beings. I wish them and their families all the best. The president and cdc ordered a travel advisory for people of new york, new jersey, and connecticut. This happened last night. This is not a lockdown, it is a travel advisory to be implemented by the states. It is nothing that we have not been doing. Nonessential people should stay at home. It is consistent with everything we are doing. I support what the president did, because it affirms what we have been doing. It also affirms what new jersey and connecticut have been doing. Rhode island issued an executive order that new york license plates would be stopped at the border for mandatory quarantine of some period. That executive order has been repealed by the state of rhode island and we thank them for their cooperation. That was repealed last night. Personal opinion, not fact, gratuitous. This is disorienting, it is frightening, it is disturbing. Your whole life is turned upside down overnight. To the best you can, you find a way to create some joy. You try to find a Silver Lining in all of this. How do you break up the monotony . How do you bring a smile to peoples face . My idea for today, i come from an italianamerican family, sunday was family day. We had the big family dinner , in the afternoon, it was like a lunch, a late lunch they called the dinner. It was spaghetti and meatballs and sausages. My family would get together and it was a beautiful time. I did not appreciate it as a kid but it was beautiful. They all came together and the grandparents were there and they start to eat at 2 00, it was like a marathon session. The food was really just the attraction to get people together. Everybody talks about how the italians love the food. Thats true, but really they love bringing the family together and the food was the way that people came together. You sat at the table and it was a 2, 3 hour affair. My mother and father did it also. Not to the same extent my grandparents did, but we had that same sunday dinner around the table. I tried to continue it as a father with my kids. I was divorced, so i am not the best cook, to say the least. But we would have, on sundays, i would go to the italian Specialty Store and buy the meatballs and the sausages, but i would put it in a pot and put it on the stove, because part of it was that the sauce would sit there all day and simmer and you would smell it all through the house. Then i would make them sit down and we would have spaghetti and meatballs and sausage on sundays. My daughter is in the back. They would never eat the sausage and the meatballs. They would pick at the pasta because they knew i did not know how to cook so they knew that meatball and sausage was inherently suspect. I never said that i bought it in the Specialty Store because that would have ruined the tradition. So they would not eat it, wed go for chinese food after. That convening was something special. Today, we are going to have our family dinner, we are missing one daughter, we are going to get her on skype and grandma will be on the phone and we are going to sit around the table and have that kind of coming together, a little different, skype, telephone, but you know what . With everything going on, family, we are together, we are healthy, that is 98 of it. So find ways to make a little joy. Also for new yorkers, i know we feel under attack. I had a lot of phone calls yesterday when the president first suggested some form of quarantine, what does that mean . Am i going to be allowed to leave the house . My parents who are supposed to be coming back and this one is here at this one is here, i know we feel under attack. Rhode island, you cannot drive into rhode island, we will pull you over with the police. Yes, new york is the epicenter and these are different times and many people are frightened. Some of the reactions you get from individuals, even from governments, are frightening and suggesting that they will take abrupt actions against new york. But look. This is new york. We are going to make it through this. We have made it through far greater things. We are going to be ok. We specialize in stamina and strength and instability and that is what we are doing now. We are strong. We have endurance. And we have stability. We know what we are doing, we have a plan, we are executing the plan. Any obstacle that we come across, we will manage that obstacle. And we have. I cannot sit here and say to anyone, you are not going to see people pass away. You will. That is the nature of what we are dealing with. That is beyond any of our control. But new york is going to have what it needs and no one is going to attack new york unfairly and no one is going to deprive new york of what it needs. That is why i am here. That is why we have a state full of talented, professional people. A deep breath on all of that. We are doing exactly what we need to do. There is no state in the nation that is better prepared or better mobilized than what we are doing. I feel that deeply and having studied everything that every other state has done, federal officials have remarked to me that they are surprised how quickly a state as big as new york has mobilized. Feel good about that. There are two great new york expressions that i use all the time. Anything i build in new york always has two expressions on it. One, excelsior. Ever upwards. Aspirational. We can be better, we will be better. We are going to improve ourselves. State motto, its on the seal behind me. The other, e pluribus unum. Out of many one. Unity. You put those two things together, it says it all. Aim high, do better, believe you can do better, be optimistic, and the way you get there is through unity. And togetherness and cooperation and through mutuality and community. Those two expressions i say to my daughters, if you remember nothing else when i am gone, if you walk up to the box and have nothing else to remember, excelsior, you can be better, it will be better, we can make it better, e pluribus unum, we make it Better Together. Thats it. Thats what we are doing. Questions . [inaudible] when will we start funneling patients into javits . Gov. Cuomo when are we funneling patients into javits . Javits will come online this week. Remember, a lot of what we are doing is building capacity and assembling supplies for the apex. People say, you dont need this today. I know i dont need it today. I know where we are on the trajectory today. I have to prepare for the apex, for the curve. Thats where i need the beds, supplies, etc. When i say get ahead of this thing, the virus has been ahead of us. I want to be ahead of the virus. I want to get to the apex before the virus. The javits is part of that. It will come online this week. When we actually utilize it is when we need it. You mentioned family dinners. The stayathome orders through april 15 affect easter and passover. People cannot go to church, cannot have seders, what advice do you give them . Gov. Cuomo it is hard. On the flipside, i say, look what happened in new rochelle. Those gatherings that brought people together where religious gatherings. And brought hundreds of people together, which was beautiful, but it made many people ill. Density is the enemy. For this particular time. You worship the way you can, but the gatherings are not a good idea. By the way, the patient zero in westchester who was very sick for a very long time, he has gone home. Am i correct in that . He is out of the hospital. Have you spoken to the governor of rhode island . How did you convince her to take back the travel issue . Gov. Cuomo i spoke to the governor of rhode island yesterday. We had a conversation. I dont think the order was called for. I dont believe it was legal. I dont believe it was neighborly. I understood the point, but i thought there were different ways to do it. The governor of rhode island was very receptive and i thank her very much for reconsidering her position. 270 deaths in the last 24 hours, 222 in new york city. What are your projections in terms of what this apex might look like in terms of the fatalities . Hundreds of people . Thousands of people . Gov. Cuomo do you know . There are many different projections we are working at. We are at 965. We do see in the thousands. Again, these are models and we have to plan for what the model may show but hopefully it will be less. Are we talking hundreds of deaths a day . It goes back to the numbers. 80 of individuals get better. Of the other 20 , some end up in the hospital, there is a small percentage that end up dieting. Dying. That percentage, as we are looking at the numbers, is hovering around less than 1 . It is determined by how many people are positive. Gov. Cuomo isnt it opinion, not datadriven . And see how you look at those numbers and conclude anything less than thousands of people will pass away. Remember, it is attacking the vulnerable. Underlying illness, etc. I dont see how you get past that curve without seeing thousands of people pass away. I hope it is wrong. Nursing home residents [inaudible] what more can the state do to tackle that issue . Gov. Cuomo Nursing Homes are about one fourth of the coronavirus deaths. We are lucky that it is only one quarter. Coronavirus and Nursing Homes are a toxic mix. We saw that in washington state. This virus preys on the vulnerable, it preys on seniors, it preys on people with underlying illnesses. Coronavirus in a nursing home can be like fire to dry grass. The state has put in different precautions. We are not even allowing visitors into Nursing Homes now. Which is really harsh, frankly. Unless what we call exigent circumstances where the person is in a desperate situation and the family comes in to see them. The staff is being tested before they go in. We are doing everything we can. But this is truly a terrible virus to stop and that combination is lethal. Coronavirus in a nursing home is lethal. The only question is, how many people will die . [inaudible] so all nonessential workers and unnecessary gatherings to cease . Gov. Cuomo yes. To go back to the point the doctor was making, we are testing at a large rate, getting a lot more positives compared to other jurisdictions. What numbers are you looking at . Do you look at the rate of icu intubation . The data seems to be saying different things. We look at all the numbers. It is important to look at the trends. It is a trend we need to follow, intubations, icu care, the case fidelity rate, the number of people die, the number over the larger number of people who tested. New york has tested more than anyone else. Gov. Cuomo the question was basically, what numbers do you look at to make a projection . As the doctor said, you look at all of them. I would not look at the testing numbers. I would not overweight the testing numbers because the testing numbers are not random. The testing numbers are selfselected. These are people who you are testing because they are suspect of being positive. We dont do the projections ourselves. We have Columbia Medical Center that does projections, the cdc does projections. We have Mckinsey Company that we hired to do projections. There are a number of firms that do projection models. They study china and south korea and everything else. They have models. The models, some are all over the place. We do the best we can to pick a reasonable model, not the highest, not the lowest. A reasonable model, plan for that. Thats where we got from day one 140,000 hospital beds, 40,000 icu beds. That is from that model. At the apex. Where you dont need 140,000 hospital beds today. Of course not. We need them at the apex. But that is where we got those original projections. Then you have actuality. You can see the day to day, the discharge rate, the death rate, that is what we are plotting. Then they take every day and put it against their projection. You still only have a projection. They cannot tell you they are watching for the slowing of the number of cases. When you see the number of cases, the increase in the number of cases slowing, then you are theoretically reaching the apex. Otherwise, you watch it day to day. [inaudible] we are hearing that is happening on i95. Gov. Cuomo i did not hear that. [inaudible] or people coming from new york . Gov. Cuomo i do not know what florida did but i will look into it. [inaudible] gov. Cuomo you get two parts. Take the first and second part and put them together in one part. Moving forward, what is your plan for what might be considered by the experts Mental Health crisis pending . As people are cooped up together, Domestic Violence is expected to rise. [inaudible] gov. Cuomo all good questions. Do you want to tell us about the Mental Health program . We had a volunteer program, nearly 12,000 experts and professionals who signed up to offer services to new yorkers by telephone or skype or other things. That program is going well. Psychologists and psychiatrists to help with that. We are tracking are you expecting to do something that is more new york statecentric as opposed to this National Type thing with Mental Health experts all around the country that can offer guidance . People are skyping because we want people to distance from one another. They are giving time to help new yorkers in need. It is very new yorkcentric. [inaudible] question. Ic violence gov. Cuomo do you want to take that . Some of that data is tough to tell how it is emerging. There are some anecdotal instances of increase of Domestic Violence issues. The department of health have been trying to provide services where possible. I would defer to the doctor. We are working with different agencies across the state on this issue of Mental Health and the other agencies and i have reached out to some of the professionals in the private sector to ask for recommendations. There was ample warning before coronavirus touched down at new york shores that Mass Gatherings should be banned. Why didnt you shut down the state sooner . Gov. Cuomo i think we shut it down i think we were one of the first to shut it down. Shutting it down is not without criticism either. You are trying to balance this. You have a conversation about when do you bring the economy back . Shutting it down is a drastic measure. But i think we were one of the first. Also, you want to do it in a way that does not create more fear and more panic. You are fighting two things. Last night, we were fighting two things. You are fighting the virus and the fear. I cant tell you how many people called all night long about the mandatory quarantine comment that the president made as he was getting into a helicopter, which was inconclusive. Even if you heard his comment, he was not conclusive in his comment. People are so on edge, they are really panicked. So you need to manage that fear and panic and you also need to deal with the virus. We were one of the first. I never used the term shelterinplace because i believe that was an inflammatory term and incorrect, by the way. They still use it. Nobody has a shelterinplace policy. Shelterinplace was, from the nuclear war threat, go in the middle of your room, stay there until they give you the all clear sign. Modern times, it was for an active shooter concept in schools. That is not what this was. But you say that, nuclear war, active shooter. But we were one of the first to do it. [inaudible] did you regret not placing more restrictions sooner . Gov. Cuomo i think we were the most dramatic at the first point. Do you know how many medical professionals in new york or other First Responders have the virus and tested positive . Gov. Cuomo we dont have a statistic on how many First Responders specifically proved positive. Senator Schumers Office says you are rejecting 500 billion dollars in medicaid funding for new yorkers [inaudible] gov. Cuomo what i say to senator schumer, it would be nice if he passed a piece of legislation that helped the state of new york. The piece of legislation he passed stopped the state from a process that was happening for six months, which was redesigning the Medicaid Program to make it more efficient and more effective. It was called the medicaid redesign team. I announced it in january, the second time we did it. It takes waste and fraud and inefficiency out of the system. That was going on since january. The legislation he passed said, you cannot redesign medicaid. For what reason, i have no idea. So it disqualified this state from funding. He knew that when he passed it. You could either take the additional 6 billion, or you could it sounds like you are not taking the 6 billion, you will push ahead. Gov. Cuomo i have no choice. I will tell you. 2. 5 billion a year recurring is worth more than 6 billion one shot. I would rather have 2. 5 billion, 2. 5 billion, 2. 5 billion than 6 billion today. And i called every congressional representative and told them, why would you want to stop a medicaid redesign that has been going on since january . I dont know what their political calculus was, but that is all it was, a political calculus. There is no Good Government reason to say why you would want to stop a medicaid redesign headed by dennis rivera, michael dowling, passed by the assembly and the senate. A statepassed medicaid redesign effort. Why would you ever want to stop that . I dont know whose politics they are playing. Next year, why not take the money they are offering you now because you need it and redesign it next year . The 6 billion number, we cannot get to the 6 billion number no matter how you estimate those number. It is probably closer to 4 billion and that assumes that the emergency is in place for a year. There is nothing in that bill that says it will last for a year. In fact, it will end once the president declares the emergency is over. That can happen any time. That 4 billion dollar number is reduced. If it is half a year, it is 2 billion. Then a significant portion does not go to the state. You are left with a number that is under 2 billion potentially. Then, you are saying, take a one shot of these funds, dont reform the medicaid system, and spend that money inefficiently on a system that unanimously everyone understood was not working properly, we were wasting the money. The choice is, waste the money, or do a bill that actually provides funding to new york state. That bill does not even get us a fraction of the amount of money that is needed. [inaudible] gov. Cuomo that is not the Sticking Point for the budget. Just so you have the fact, it is 2 billion, take 2 billion for sure, or door b for 2. 6 billion. I pick the door with 2. 6 billion. The real question is, why would you do that to the state of new york . Why would you say, stop a medicaid redesign that saves taxpayers money, that has to be passed by the assembly and has to be passed by the senate . Why would a federal government say, i am going to trample the states rights to redesign its Medicaid Program that it runs . That saves money . I dont even know what the political interest is they are trying to protect. But 2 billion versus 2. 6 billion, i pick 2. 6 billion. The problem with the budget is the numbers. Why . Because the federal government what we talked about was the previous bill. Two bills ago. The bill that just passed, we get 1. 9 of our state budget, about 5 billion, which is 1. 9 of our budget. Only to use for coronavirus expenses. 1. 9 of our budget, only for coronavirus expenses. First point, you have states that got 10 of their budget, 20 of their budget in coronavirus expenses, that dont even have coronavirus cases. You have some states have four cases. We have more cases than anyone else, we got the lowest level of reimbursement in the bill. What happened to funding need . Second, the federal bill had no funding for the fact that states funding for the fact that states have lost revenue. Speaker pelosi, god bless her, was asked today, how about governor cuomos point that it did not do anything to help the states . The speaker basically said, we have to come back and pass another bill. We have a 10 billion, 15 billion revenue hole that the federal government did nothing to help on. We have a 15 billion hole. We have a 15 billion hole. They dont want to hear it. But how do you do a budget with that big a hole . Remember, the great heartbreak was, we were waiting for this last federal piece of legislation because we believed it was going to have money to help us with our revenue shortfall. Then it did not. That shock was two or three days ago. Now we have to do the budget next week. The help we were waiting for from washington never came. Now we have to make drastic cuts to the budget like you have never seen. Let me ask about the travel advisory. How do you envision nonessential travel . Business travel for many people is considered essential. How do you imagine that . Are you asking people to not come to new york to do business . Gov. Cuomo same definitions as we have. Nonessential, if you are nonessential worker, you should not leave your home. If you are an essential worker, you can take a bus, train, car, or plane. Should people be traveling to new york . Gov. Cuomo if they are essential, yes. [inaudible] it looks like you can still find savings without shipping cost to counties. What would be the impact of the cuts . Gov. Cuomo we do have funding, the question is how do we fund the Health Care Costs . The federal government did provide health care funding. I have 5 billion in the bill for coronavirus funding. But every hospital now has coronavirus expenses. We have 5 billion for hospitals. Ironically, our last problem in some ways is the Health Care Budget because we received 5 billion and the hospitals received a lot of money. The big problem is how do you fund the schools . Because the schools are the second biggest expense after health care and that is where we have zero dollars. [inaudible] gov. Cuomo can we do shortterm borrowing . The issue is we will not have revenue in the First Quarter of this year as a result of the delay in the tax filing date. With no revenue coming in, we will have to potentially borrow resources to bridge that gap temporarily. Those revenues should come in. That is different than the revenue shortfall, which is a result of having only essential businesses open and that revenue not coming in. To bridge that gap, we will do shortterm borrowing. We still have a revenue shortfall. Gov. Cuomo the essential problem, when you have that big a hole, there are two things you can do. You can paper over it and come up with expectations, well, we believe the next federal bill would actually deliver money to the state of new york. You could say that. You could say, i believe santa claus is real. I am not comfortable doing that. Especially since the federal government just passed the bill and that is what we were hoping for and the federal government did the opposite and handed us a goose egg. Well, we expect the economy will rebound in nine months. And that it is going to be a v curve. In nine months, those revenues will come flooding back so we will be fine. That is another way of papering over the hole. I dont want to do that because i dont believe it. I dont believe credit agencies are going to believe it. I believe postponing a problem in government, in life, you just make it worse. Lets not deceive ourselves. You are not going to get saved by the federal government. If they were going to do it, they would have done it. They played their own politics. Shocker. This is not going to be a quick down, quick up. You are looking at weeks or months and i dont know how quick the recovery and the recovery will be complicated. Im not going to say to the people of this state, there is a theory of economics that i dont believe. I believe that we have to actually deal with the numbers that are presented. Like every family in this state has to deal with the numbers. Everybodys income is down. They dont get to make up numbers or make up a rationale. I will buy a new car because i think i will get rehired and i think i will get rehired at a job that pays more, so i will buy a new car. Im not doing it. I know it is politically hard for the legislature, i know the legislative bodies want to make friends by giving out a lot of money. We have been successful in being very prudent economically, our spending rate has gone up less than any administration in modern history. Our budgets have passed and they have been right. I am not going to change that now. Im not going to paper over the economic reality and i know it is difficult for them, but im not going to do it. Im not going to pass or sign a phony budget. [inaudible] gov. Cuomo the same policy issues we have been discussing, the main policy objections, they object to a policy proposal that i put in which would be a bill that is meant to fight against antisemitism. Antisemitism has been a major problem in this state. Right now, we have coronavirus, and that sort of eclipses everything. We tend to be miopic. We have dozens of antisemitic attacks across this state. I have been there with families who have been attacked. I was there the morning after the first night of hannukah when a rabbis home was attacked. Not to address antisemitism is a terrible mistake. And it is not just antisemitism, it is domestic terrorism. It is repugnant to the concept of new york and america to attack someone based on their race, color, creed. If you try to kill someone if you kill someone in an attempt to kill several people, based on their race, color, or creed, how is that not a terrorist act . You kill someone and you were attempting to kill multiple people based on their race, color, creed. They dont want to pass that bill, and theres objections to the sever c bill, which would help infertile women who cannot have a child biologically and from having a surrogate, it would stop lgbtq couples from having a child, which is ironic as this is the first state that passed marriage equality. Now you say you can not have a family because you cannot have a child. It makes no sense to me. But those are the main discussions. I have to go. Thank you. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] this morning dr. Staley. He particularly love to dedicate by the doorknob rss and 100,000 or 200,000 will die. The big draw dried by boston globe, which had come up around the country to limit traveler. Biden were onoe nbc. And is about to respond to the virus. What id got here on is every metro area showed us they could have an out right. To new york and everything now to prevent it. If they mitigate a now or they start getting cases to the american hospital, once you see those, the virus has been spreading more daisies. This is my call on every year earlier to prepare earlier