Governor Cuomo and COVID-19

 Response to Jack Scofield's criticism of Governor Cuomo, and Cuomo's concerns around a new vaccine that has to be kept extremely cold (-80 F).

Jack's post:

Let me get this straight...

According to this self-serving idiot, (exceeded only by his Hollywood wanna-be Brother) five long months ago, the world was coming to an end due to the COVID plague. Now he’s bitching about the burden of dispensing the vaccine?

Thank Gawd! We must begin assembling committees and legislative counter measures to keep this potential panacea under control and away from the gullible public he so adroitly protects.

My response: 

Excellent, if baseless, takedown of Governor Cuomo - and a bonus takedown of his brother. Your expression of contempt seems heart-felt, and worthy of the current embittered lame-duck insult-comic president. Good work!

Since you asked, let me help you ‘get this straight’.

Five months ago, Governor Cuomo was absolutely correct. He never said the ‘world was coming to an end’, but his well thought-through daily briefings provided an intelligent counterpoint to the bullshit coming out of the White House that COVID would ‘just go away’.

The good news is that New York—one of the hardest-hit states early in the pandemic—has a better handle on the crisis than almost all others, due primarily to measures taken by Governor Cuomo and his administration. Note the time series in this graphic, and watch NY disappear off the ‘worst-case’ list in early June, and rise to one of the safest states by the end.

https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/3835611/?fbclid=IwAR0y8yVE2CuVNbmtw3jfuc1ymSicjwDhnMVHtf3jX55me85dAjbW-KRJeKI 

I watched this video. Governor Cuomo is expressing well-grounded concerns about the logistics of distributing to an entire population a vaccine that becomes, at best, ineffective, if not dangerous, if it experiences a temperature excursion above -80ºC (-112ºF). Its efficacy is not regained by just chilling it again; it must be KEPT below that temperature. Such a distribution to an entire population is totally unprecedented, even if it didn’t have to be precisely duplicated for each person six weeks later.

So what part of Cuomo’s comments do you dispute?