Required the ability to perform widespread testing and contact tracing. Gov. Cuomo good afternoon. A bigger group than usual. Thank you very much for being here. We will give you some updated information and go from there. On this format of the presentation, i brought one of my own personal bias to the way we do this. People have not noticed i have an unknowing personal habit that annoying personal habit that my children remind me of often. Staff reminded me this morning. People love to give you their opinion on what they think. I often will stop them and say before you tell me what you think, just give me the facts. Just give me the facts before your interpretation of the facts. I like to start with just the facts. Just give me the facts and that is what we are doing in this presentation. Here are the facts. No opinion, no filter. I will tell you what my opinion is, but first the facts. It is an annoying personal habit. People want to tell you their opinion. I think this. I know, but tell me the facts first and then give me your opinion. Total hospitalizations still in the 18 thousands. 18,000s but a clip down. Good news. That is a fact that it is good news. Not my opinion. You see the flattening of the curve. All of these news asked no expressions that we never used before. Plateau, flattening, rounding. Net change in hospitalizations down. That is good news. Three day rolling average. Because, remember anyone of , these days of reporting, this is a new reporting system. It is imprecise. I would not bet the form on any the farm on any one days numbers. Startshree day average to be more accurate. Icu admissions is down. That is good news. Intubations are down. It is very good news. When a person is intubated, they are on a ventilator. 80 of people will never come off a ventilator. Or, thereabouts. That is good news. A little reality check. You still have about 2000 people on a daytoday basis who are being diagnosed with covid. We are out of the woods, no. We are still in the woods. The good news is, it continues to curve. The great news is, we can control the spread. That is great. Can you imagine if we could not control the spread, if we kept doing this and it kept going up. So we can control the spread. But you still have about 2000 People Per Day who are new diagnoses coming into the hospital. It is still a Serious Public Health issue. Lives lost yesterday, 752 which is the painful news of our reality day after day and they day after day, and they are in our thoughts and prayers. You see 707 in hospitals. 35 in Nursing Homes. People are interested in those numbers and how they are changing. You see the terrible news has basically been flat over the past couple of days. The number of days is a lagging the number of death is a lagging indicator. It is almost disrespectful to put it in scientific terms. These are people who probably were intubated, they were on a ventilator and then again on a period of time on a ventilator normally is a bad outcome. The total number of deaths the cdc changed guidelines on how they want information reported. They want deaths and another category of probable deaths which is a new category that is done by the local department of coroner. R the we will rationalize those with local governments and get those out as soon as we can. We are also since we have a , little bit of a period to take a breath, we will contact Nursing Homes and facilities to find out if there were other people who passed from covid who were not necessarily in a hospital or nursing home. There is a sense that maybe additional people have passed away and they were not included in the count because they were not in a hospital or nursing home. We will be going through that. Basically, the healthcare situation has stabilized. The fears of overwhelming the Healthcare System has not happened thanks to the phenomenal work of our frontline workers, thanks to all of the additional capacity that the Hospital System created. Over 50 additional capacity in one month. Just think of that. Thanks to the work that are federal government did. Our federal government did. The army corps of engineers providing the javits and comfort. Javits which has 2500 bed capacity is the overflow. About 800 people moved on through javits. Thank you very much. That was a Great Service that was done by the federal government in a very short period of time. We have that stabilized. People are still getting infected, but we have the infection spread down to a manageable number. We have accomplished that. People are restless. We have to talk about the reopening of the economy, how do we do this . We have to build a bridge from where we are to the reopening of the economy. What does that look like . Lets say that where we are going, it is not a reopening and that we are going to reopen what was, we are going to a different place. We should go to a better place. If we dont learn the lessons from the situation, then all of this would have been in vain. We learned a lot if we are willing to open our eyes in our ears. We are going to a different place which is a new normal. We talk about the new normal, we have been talking about the new normal for years. We will have a new normal in Public Health. We have a new normal in the environment, economics, civil rights, social justice. This is the way of the world now. We are moving to a new place, a new challenging place, but also a potentially better place. When is this over . I say it is over when we have a vaccine. It is over when people know i am 100 safe and i dont have to worry about this. When does that happen . When we have a vaccine. When will we have a vaccine . 12 to 18 months. Who determines that . The federal government has to test the vaccine, the fda. It is a big gap, yes. I say the sooner the better. Anything we can do to work with the federal government to get the vaccine faster, we are all in. If you want to use a new york laboratory, we are ready, willing, and able. Anyway the new York City Department of health can work with the government to reduce that testing period, we are all in and energized and creative and ambitious about it. Anything we can do to accelerate that vaccine, we will do. You need a place to test it in large numbers, think of new york. That is the ultimate end. We have a vaccine now and we dont have to worry about this. By the way we will probably have , to worry about the next Public Health risk at that time. So do not forget everything we learned. Besides the vaccine, there is a possibility that they develop a medical treatment. So we can not prevent you from getting the virus, but we have a medical treatment. If you get the virus, dont worry, no big deal, you get the medical treatment. That is another way of having a natural end. That is what convalescent plasma is all about and the Antibody Testing to find people who had the antibody and injecting the antibody into a person as a treatment method. Maybe the hydroxychloroquine works. This has been a very politicized topic. I have done my best to stay 100 miles away from politics in all of this. Everyone wants to see if hydroxychloroquine works. Everybody. The president says he believes it works. But he is not a doctor. He says he believes it works, but he is not a doctor. Find out. Everyone hopes that it works. Anything new york can do to test it, we will. We are now testing hydroxychloroquine. There are a number of hospitals doing it. It is not a government decision. The medical doctor decides. If the medical doctor decides it works, fine. We have an executive order that limits the prescription of hydroxychloroquine only because we do not have enough. There was such a demand on it that people who needed it, cant get it. If the government sends us more, we will dispense more. It is a pure supplyside issue. Or maybe they develop another drug that they figure out has an effect. That could happen between now and the vaccine. We all pray that it does. Until you have the vaccine, the medical treatment, what do you do . How are you building the bridge . It is going to be a phased reopening, right . During the reopening, the priority is make sure you do no harm and keep your eye on the Public Health issue. That is what is key in all of this. It will be a calibration of reopening waste on Public Health based on Public Health safety and that infection rate because what we have done in reducing the infection rate is a pure function of what new yorkers have done and what people across the country have done. When you relax that social distancing, you could see an increase in the infection rate. It is all a calibration to the Public Health. It will be a gradual increasing of Economic Activity in calibration with Public Health standards. The single best tool to doing this gauging is largescale testing. , and isolate. What does this mean . You find the positives, you trace back who they were with, where they were, and test those people and isolate those who are positive. It is inarguable but it is very hard to do. It opens this new world of testing. This new world is a new world to all of us. This diagnostic testing, are you positive or negative. Testing for antibodies, were you exposed. If they found out that you were exposed, now you can go back to work because you had the virus, you have antibodies. Antibody testing, once you have the antibodies, you can help develop convalescent plasma where they can take your blood, take those antibodies, use it as treatment. There is saliva testing which is faster and easier. It is not blood testing. It is not a swab. It is just saliva. That is a new form of testing just being developed. The finger prick testing which is less invasive but also being developed. There is full blood sampling testing which is obviously more intrusive. To do the testing, you need testing equipment. You need swabs and vials. You need all of these things in a capacity that does not now exist. Where do you do the testing . We have been doing testing in hospitals. Frankly, that is not a great place to do testing. You dont want people walking into an emergency room who may be positive for covid. Our drivethrough locations are better. How you bring that to scale . And even if you have the equipment and the testing site and the personnel to do the testing, where do you get the labs to test all of these tests . This is a whole world of questions that nobody has ever seen before. The bottom line is you need largescale testing, lets do it. We cannot do it yet. Rnished truth. Va i know because we have done more tests than any other state. We have done over 500,000 tests which is more than the other states that are near us combined. We have been very aggressive here. All this time, we have only done 500,000 tests. It is a large number of tests, yes. But this is over one month period. Even 500,000 tests, you are talking about a state with 19 million people. You get a sense of the scale of what we have to do, here. We cannot do it without federal support. I have been saying this for days. If you have a state that has a slower need, yes, they may be lower need, yes, they may be able to do it. When you have a state that has to do a large number of these tests, i am telling you, we cannot do it without federal support. I have said that from day one. We will coordinate and we have been coordinating all of the tests in our state. That is how we got to the 500,000 number. More aggressive than anyone else. We have private laboratories in this state. We will coordinate with them. We will make sure we are not competing with ourselves because they are a lot of groups that are now testing. New York City Department of health developed their own antibody test. That test is going to be very important and it is in our control. We do not need a private lab. We dont need anyone else. With those tests, it will go to about 2000 per day capacity and that is a finger prick test so it is not terribly invasive. Even i can endure the pain of that one. We asked the fda to approve a state test that can get us to 100,000 People Per Day to give you an idea that is 500,000 per week if you do not work the weekends. I dont want to raise something i dont know about. 500,000 per week, we have only done 500,000 to date. You get a sense of how powerful that would be if the fda approves that. We will prioritize Antibody Testing for First Responders and essential workers. This is important. We have all been saying thank you to the healthcare workers and that is nice. Ive been talking to the head of 1199 who represents healthcare workers. His point has always been the gratitude is appreciated, but we need support. Healthcare workers need support. They need the ppe. They need time off, they need to more than thank you, actions more than words. Nurses, the same thing. They have been doing phenomenal work, they need support, equipment they need time off, they need to recuperate. The First Responders, the in my the nypd. Pat lynch, who represents the nypd has said from day one, my guys need support. They are out there every day. They live in the downstate area and they work in the downstate area. A lot of them live in suffolk, westchester, rockland, and orange. They need ppe equipment, and testing. They need to know if they have been infected and also, they could wind up being spreaders if they dont know. The nypd has been extraordinary here. Make them a priority for the testing that we can do and we can control and that is the Antibody Testing and we will. The more testing, the more open the economy. There is not enough National Capacity to do this. I have been speaking with governors across the country. Every governor is in the same situation. I was speaking with the governor of illinois. He has companies that do this testing in this state. Everyone is in the same position. We have to be clear on who does what between the federal government and the State Government. The state cannot develop national testing. There is no simple answer to it. It is controlled by private Sector Companies who have been doing it at a reduced volume because that was the world. You did not need such a high level of tests. The private Sector Companies only developed with the capacity the market demanded. This is an entirely new market. When you talk to private Sector Companies, which i have, they will say, i cannot increase my volume. I cannot get enough swabs. I cannot get enough vials. I dont have enough machinery to manufacture it or test it. They need chemical agents that are part of the test. Many of these chemical agents are not even manufactured in the united states. There is an International Supply chain. All of this to say it is very hard to bring this to scale quickly. We need the federal government to be part of this. Testing capacity to me is like what ventilators were over the past month. All of a sudden because of this virus and the respiratory attack, we need massive numbers of ventilators. I had never heard about ventilators before this. I now know more than i ever wanted to know about ventilators. It came out of the blue. They are very hard to manufacture. There is a supply chain. They are a sophisticated piece of equipment. And it is very hard to get them , manufactured quickly. No one is to blame on ventilators or testing. I dont want a political world, who is to blame. Sometimes there is nobody to blame. On this testing situation, there is nobody to blame. Just how do we now do it . How do we scale it up and scale it up quickly because we want to phase the reopening as fast as we can between now and a medical treatment and a vaccine. That is what we are doing. I do know this. The answer on testing is not what happened on ventilators which is 50 states competing against each other to buy Testing Capacity from these private Sector Companies and the federal government, which is also buying Testing Capacity, competing against the 50 states. That is not learning the lesson of what we did before. Partnership with the federal government 100 . We need that partnership to do this. Once you test, then you have to trace the contacts. We test bernadette, bernadette turns up positive. Ok, who were you with over the past week . What family members tackle who what family members were you with . Who do you sit next to in the office . You now have a list of 30 people. If it is bernadette, even more because she is highly social and has a lot of friends. Now someone has to run down that list of 30 people from one positive. It is a detectiveinvestigator in the publichealth space. That is a massive undertaking. It is intelligent, but it is massive. That is an army of tracers. Testing, get that up to scale, and then tracing. That is a massive undertaking that we now do not do. So, testing tracing, isolation. , yes, we have to do that in concert with the federal government. No one has done it before. No one has done it to this volume. Second, for the states to do this role of reopening, we need funding. The past federal legislation has not provided it. It is that simple. They funded many good causes. Hospitals, more businesses, etc. You now want the State Governments to do all of this work, do this, do this. Ok, i will do everything i can. I need your help with the things i cannot. But you have to provide funding because at the same time, the State Governments are broke. That is not just me, that is every governor in the united states. That is the National Governors association, the chairman, governor hogan, good man, republican, and myself, vice chairman for the National Governors association wrote a joint letter saying the states need 500 billion in funding because i have to be afloat and have some capacity to do all of these things you want to governors to now do. That has to be in federal legislation. There cannot be excuses about it. From today to 18 months which is the last date for a vaccine, that is what we have to work through. The first rule, do no harm. This is a Public Health crisis. We are still in the woods and just because the number has plateaued, does not mean it is any time to relax what we are doing. Do no harm, do not go backwards. Hope we find a medical treatment between now and 18 months. In the meantime, testing , tracing, trying to get that up to scale which is going to be the equivalent of trying to get apollo 13 back to work 220,000 miles, 50 years ago. It is a very difficult test. It cannot be done perfectly. But we can do better than we are doing. In the meantime, a phased reopening of the economy as educated by testing tracing. One other point on the phased reopening, what does that mean . And how do we phase this reopening until we get to a medical treatment or vaccine. This is what we are thinking about. Clarity on what the federal government is going to do and what the State Governments will do. I heard the president last night the states it is up to the states basically, great. I get it. Can do no harm. Itd their job to do publichealth monitoring. The states can also do the phased reopening plan. We cannot do the states that have a large problem they cannot do the testing and tracing without federal assistance. And, that is important. Do, andeopening, we can we have a blueprint on the reopening. As guided by testing and tracing. There are two factors on the reopening. How essential is the Business Service or product or function . The more essential a business, service, or product, the more urgent the need to immediately get them back on or as soon as back online, or as soon as possible. How essential is what the business does and second, what is the risk of infection spread with that business . Some businesses say i can open tomorrow. In my business, people will not be less than six feet apart, period. There will be no congregation of people. I will not do conferences or joint meetings. It is not the way my business operates. I can bring everyone back, put them at separate desks, they will never be near each other. I have a very low risk of infection spread. Businesses can redesign their workplace to think that way. Your business poses a low risk of infection spread. That is the second factor. The first factor is how essential is your business. That is almost a business by business evaluation that has to go on. Once you determine the essential nature of the business, because right now we have essential workers who are working. What is the next tranche of essential workers and how high or low is the possibility of infection spread if that business becomes operational. And then you basically have a matrix where the lower risk of infection spread and the Higher Nature of essential services are the businesses that you would start prioritizing. That is how we will inform our economic reopening as we are being guided by the testing tracing and making sure we are not jeopardizing the success we have made in handling the publichealth issue. That is the whole outline the whole vision from here to 18 months building that bridge to be more normal for the economy until we get to a conclusion. In the meantime, for today, stop the spread. I will show you a chart in the next couple of days. We have been tracking the infection rates which is how many people does one person in how many people does one person in fact . Does one person in fact one person . Two people . Three people . That rate of infection is the difference between a manageable situation and a pandemic. They can calibrate that for what wuhan did, where we are now, and where we were, and it is a fascinating analysis. What do we do today . We have to continue to stop the spread. This is a constant calibration. I will issue an executive order that says all people in public must have a mask or mouth and nose covering and they must wear it in a situation where you are not or cannot maintain social distancing. Meaning the same thing we have been saying from day one. If you will be in public and you cannot maintain social distancing, then have a mask and put the mask on when you are not in socially distant places. You are walking down the street alone, great. You are now at an intersection and there are people in the intersection and you will be in proximity to other people, put the mask on. Your right to go out for a walk in the park because you need to get out of the house, the dog is getting on your nerves, fine. Dont infect me. You dont have a right to infect me. If you will be in a situation in public where you may come into contact with other people in a situation that is not socially distanced, you must have a mask or a cloth covering nose and mouth. That is by executive order. Goin Public Transit, you are going to get on a bus, a subway, stand on a subway platform, walk in a neighborhood that is busy, a sidewalk, you are going to pass other people on a sidewalk, you will be able to maintain social distancing, you must wear a mask. Or an attractive bandana. You will have to wear it. People three days juste to allow compliance on the off chance that somebody does not have a covering or a mask and we will go from there. Ventilators, we have stabilized our healthcare situation. New york had one of the earlier curves. There are other places in this country who are seeing increases in the death rate and they are seeing starts on the Healthcare System. I will never stress. I will never forget the generosity that people across this country showed to our state. I said at that time, new yorkers are generous in their full and gracious and when you need help, we will be there for you. And we will be. The state of michigan is going issue. Anda an the state of maryland. The last point, personal opinion. Build a bridge. We built a bridge. I learned a lot by building that bridge. Is hassson that informed me and a lesson that should inform people who are hearing about us needing to build this bridge. There was a bridge across the hudson river. It was in very bad shape and had been for 20 years. Everybody talked about we are going to replace the bridge and nobody did. Shapeidge was in such bad that there were holes in the roadway that they were going to put these large metal plates over. When you drive across, go over one of these plates and the plate would bounce a little bit. You could actually see glimmers of light that would come through andwhole and the hole the metal plate. It traumatized two generations of drivers, me included. The governors kept saying we had to replace the bridge, they never did. I become governor, i say we have to replace the bridge. Me, you knoway to what, it is too risky a venture. River is an environmentally sensitive place. You try to build a bridge in the hudson river, you have to put down piles, you have to do all of that construction. There are environmental concerns. Is going to be very expensive. It is a very high risk difficult project. They cautioned me not to do it. For 20 years, nobody had done it. I said, yeah, but then you dont build the bridge. I understand the risk. I understand something could happen. I understand whatever you do in life, people have different opinions and it will never be perfect and they can always write stories. This one criticized this. We love negatives in society for some reason. But then you do not get anything done. Long story short, we built a budget. N time, on it is beautiful. We did go through all of the heartburn of going through the construction project in the public domain. Any people criticized we picked blue, they wanted green. We picked this, they wanted that. That is the nature of people. But we did it. It is a beautiful symbol for me and for anyone who sees it. Do not tell me that we cannot do it. Do not tell me we cannot do it. Because i know that we can do it. Because we did do it and we did it very well. Have we dealt with a situation like this . No. Can be dealt a bridge that takes us from today to 18 months . Yes. Because we are bridge builders, that is what we do. We build bridges. Sometimes literally, sometimes symbolically, sometimes a fork late. Metaphorically. But we build bridges. It could be a bridge, an airport, civil rights legislation, labor rights legislation. We build bridges. That is what we do in new york. Questions . This willmasks issue, be any public space where there is congestion question mark . Gov. Cuomo any situation in public where you cannot maintain social distancing. Six feet. If you cannot maintain that social distancing because you are going through a congested area or is it a situation where you cannot maintain social distance. You cannot maintain social distancing on Public Transit. You cant. You can on a street that is unoccupied. But if you are going out for a walk and you may come to a place where you cannot maintain social distancing, you must have a mask. Criminal prosecutions . Gov. Cuomo there was a possibility for a civil violation. You could get a penalty. Local governments would enforce it. I dont want to go to a penalty yet. We have not seen flagrant noncompliance. Here will not be a penalty it is an executive order. If people do not follow it, we could do a civil penalty. You will not go to jail for not wearing a mask. But for now, there is no civil penalty. Local governments should start to enforce it and they should come up and say, you are supposed to be wearing a mask. People will enforce it. They will say to you, if they are standing next to you on a street corner, where is your mask, buddy, in a interests. Two one interest is, release as much data as possible. We will release as much data as possible on people who have died in Nursing Homes. The second interest is, respect and legal rights to privacy. You pass away in a nursing home, or your parent passes away in a nursing home, god forbid, should your parents picture really be in the front page of the newspaper the next day because they passed away from covid . Did that mean their privacy should be violated and i should release their name so that they could be on the news that night . You know, so thats the balance. On thesaid to them, err side of more disclosure, and thats what they have been doing and will continue to do. But dont discount a persons right to privacy about the death of a loved one, and your right to publicize that death because you want to. So it is a balance, just remember. [indiscernible] not,cuomo maybe you are but people are. Mayor de blasio said today, you go into a grocery store, you have to wear a mask. Thats the order. You are talking about you need federal assistance in order to up the testing capability, but if the city is already trying to do that as well, how much are you working with the City Partners . Gov. Cuomo overall 400 localon, we have government officials in this state. This is a statewide order. I have 700 school districts. I have 50 something county executives. We coordinate as much as we can with everybody. Should andnments must be doing what they think is necessary, and then we have statewide directives that everyone should do, because we have to have one state plan, and then i have to turn around and coordinate with new jersey and connecticut and five other states. So we have to have one state land, and then i try to coordinate down, and coordinate up with the federal government. All this ordination. So you do all this coordination. So you do the best you can. When you have a statewide situation, which is what this is, you have to have rules that are statewide, and we try to coordinate with everyone. They can have their own rules, they just cant conflict with the statewide rules. That is the balance, thats the law. They can do anything they want, just they cannot conflict. There will be times when they take a local action, which happens usually come also. The state action overrides the local action, whether it was plastic bags or whatever. A lot of times we get into situations where we have different local laws and then the state takes an action which overrides the local laws. Thats not just in this situation. This is just a more condensed version of it. So i dont know all the local laws that are out there on masks, to tell you the truth. And as long as they dont conflict, great. But if there is a conflict, the state law governs. Just to followup on that, the details here are obviously important. What the mayor announced yesterday was that hes going to be moving to the new testing system. What he is talking about the swabs and the vials that they go in. The governor is talking about Testing Capacity. Weve been limited by the Testing Capacity in the labs. So theres two parts to that. Theres a swab used to actually get the sample and then you send it to the lab. You are constrained by the Testing Capacity in the lab. The governor is talking about increasing the testing capacities in the labs. On the masks, a been speaking with the city and we are fully supportive of what they said this morning with grocery stores. The next logical step is to build on top of that. Gov. Cuomo with testing and how complex this is, the first issue is, you cant bring it to scale, forget that. Before you even get there, you cant get enough equipment, testing equipment, swabs, vials, literally the material that you need. When you talk to a private sector company, this is all done by private Sector Companies. You talk to them about how do you triple capacity, they will say i cant get the swabs, i cant get the vials, i cant get the physical equipment. Thats one step. They will then say i cant get the testing agents, the chemical that they need to do the actual test. Then they will say i dont have the machines that can do the testing. So you had that whole supply chain. This, you have people contracting for tests, all the states, the federal government, local governments, cities, counties, towns, all over the country. You have private companies that are trying to buy tests. Why . Because i have my workers coming in and i want to test my workers. I am an essential service. Im a food manufacture. I have 200 employees. Testsre going out to buy to test their 200 employees. This volume is descending on these private sector testing anticipatedat never this tremendous volume. So you are one of these testing companies, they are getting calls from everybody. Private companies, local government, states, federal government. I need more, i need more, i need more. Complicated, chaotic it is what ventilators was, probably even worse. Now, can the federal government do this . No. In State Government do it . No. Can anyone do it . No, but you have to figure out how to do it the best you can. Have to get the supply chain up, and that has to happen with the federal government. [indiscernible] do you anticipate closing down more state parks . Gov. Cuomo i dont know why the park was closed down. Does anybody know . The Parks Department evaluated the situation and decided to air on the side of caution, so they have temporarily close the park. Our goal is to leave the state parks open, because as the governor said, we do want green space where people can go in get fresh air and exercise while they are able to social distance, but for the short term, it is closed. [indiscernible] gov. Cuomo we can go back and do a retrospective sometime when this is over. As i said, i dont like to do monday morning quarterback because we are at halftime. I dont know how this turns out for new york or for the nation. I just dont see how you start to do a game review while you are at the middle point of the game. If you force me for a game review now, i would say yeah, i would like to know. Lets go back to december, january. Where was thehen, International Health community . The president says where was the World Health Organization . This is not my world, right . I dont know who should have done what, when, january, february, etc. , which is a convenient fact that people miss, there is no state that moved faster than the state of new york from the time of our to starting to shut down, to total shut down. That all happened in like 19 days in the state of new york. We didnt have a case early on. Remember, this was seattle, the state of washington and california first. It came to the east coast later, but from time of the first case to total shutdown, new york state was the shortest period of time. Excuse me one second. And then we had steps in the middle, between the first case and total shutdown. Did 25 , 50 , we 75 percent. But the whole thing was 19 days. You also have to remember, as a matter of days, on the factual ,uestion of speed of movement no state moved faster than 19 days from first case to total shutdown. Notsecond point is, it was about my declaring a total shutdown. Before. As been here i can sign an executive order saying total shutdown, and the people of new york can say what whichould like to say, nicely is, i am not going to comply with that because it is highly intrusive and you have not shown me any need for that action. Moved faster than any state in the nation. What else do you want . A question about masks. There is video from philadelphia man offers pulling a the train when he was told to wear one or get off. If people refuse to get off the train, what will happen to them . Gov. Cuomo we are not there yet. There is no civil penalty yet. There is no mandatory eviction from Public Transit yet. , i told you before, the way i govern is, i try to lay out the facts to new yorkers, and didnt say this is what i propose, given the facts. I like to start by saying here are the facts, not my opinion, just the facts, then i will offer my opinion and you can throw it out the window or throw it in the garbage pail. Then i will say this is what i propose based on the facts. Our success here has been the ary High Compliance rate with very aggressive policy that came out of the blue. Stay home and dont go outside. You not believe new yorkers would comply with that . I think we were very effective. Ith laying out the facts just stay home, not because im saying i will give you a ticket and you will go to jail. Just stay home because you say i heard you, and it makes sense to me and i will do it because it makes sense to me. I havent given anybody a ticket for running a business, for violating anything. Its because they understood the facts. Where i am now, im saying here are the facts. Stopping the spread is everything. How can you not wear a mask when youre going to come close to a person . On what theory would you not do that . Now, if they dont accept that and there is widespread noncompliance, then we will go and wevil penalty, it can say you cannot be on a bus or train unless you wear a mask. We are not there yet. I hope new yorkers will do it, because it makes sense. [indiscernible] , if people want to go for of walk or run and they are worried about getting shamed for not wearing a mask. [indiscernible] to know whyi want you are not wearing masks. When you are running and you come close to a person, you either run across the street or you put the mask up over your mouth and nose. Look, its not the biggest inconvenience in the world. It doesnt have to be a surgical mask. It can be a cloth mask. Have it with you, and if youre walking in the woods and you dont see anyone, great. If youre walking in the woods and here comes john campbell, because thats what he does a lot, he walks in the woods. Then you have to put up your mask because here comes don campbell. Look,ou think about rybody is working so hard the harm done if someone gets the disease, the number of people impacted, the health care where the mask. Whats the big deal . , a cloth,a mask bandana. You can make it colorful, have a design, make it advertising. Whats the big deal, right . Riskreward is life. 500600. Theres workers that have now been dock workers, you have a group of state senators asking that you unfreeze that 2 so they can see that tiny amount in their paychecks. The bank is broken, thats how you know. And the state is broke, and theres a lot of good things i would like to do for a lot of good people, that we cannot do until we have some financial stability. And if they want to help, tell them call washington and tell washington that you neglected the states financial needs and the legislation you passed was wholly disrespectful of the reality of the situation, and you know that State Governments are insolvent. You know they had to freeze pay increases. Allknow they had to take sorts of drastic measures. They couldnt find education the way they wanted to. Provide Financial Assistance to State Government so they can do their work. [indiscernible] gov. Cuomo thats one of the main systems, the states working together where they can coordinate our systems. 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