Because this is over the weekend and weekend reporting tends to be a little different. Member, this reporting system we put in place, this never happened before, where hospitals were reporting on a daily basis. Hospitals have a lot going on, oni wouldnt that the farm any of these specific oneday numbers, but the overall trend is good. The number that is the most important number that we look tremendouslystill distressing is the number of deaths 280. That number has not moved dramatically in a relatively long time. The overall direction is good, even though it is very painful. I think it is important we take a moment and learn the lessons of what we have been going through. This has been unprecedented, what weve been doing for the past 64 days. This was an urgent situation, this was all hurry up, we had to quickly figure out a plan, quickly enact a plan, but now we are a couple of months into it simultaneously, we should be learning the lessons of what we just went through. Itple talk about this like is going to come and go and its ionceinalifetime, and dont know that its a onceinalifetime and that it is going to come and go. There are people now talking about a second wave, talking about a possible mutation of the virus, so caution would suggest that as we go through this, we learn at the same time to make sure if we have to go through this again or if this is a areonged situation, that we learning from what we are implementing. Edmund burke, the great irish philosopher, those who dont know history are doomed to repeat it. Wise words stop wise words. The macro question bigger than just new york questions, bigger than they governors questions what happened in china . Where did this virus start . How did it start . What should china have told us . Above my pay grade, but important questions. Get from chinaus to the United States . We assumed it got on a plane from now it appears that is not so. As we are going to this, could we have done differently . And portly, what should we do more importantly, what should we do the next time . I would assume there is a next time. Anyone who sits back and says this is the only Public Health threat we are going to face is not the case. We are seeing increasing threats across the board. Threats from emergency weather can if you look as far back as 1918, they had the flu pandemic. Months. 10 it came in three different ways. Even if you put aside modernizations. Prepared and intelligent. Some of the lessons, the cdc did a fascinating report on may 1. It starts to take a deep look at there is aed i think lot of information in that. It pointed to something we have been looking at here in new york. The report says that when they look at the different strains of the virus in the United States, that there are different strains. We were all looking at the west coast. The west coast had cases well before the east coast, remember, maybe six weeks before the east coast. Those strains came from china. What we saw in the state of washington and california, they china. Om flight from they land predominantly on the west coast. What we have seen in new york didnt come from china, but actually is a different strain of the virus that came from europe. That is an important fact to know and to study. They then said in the cdc report from february, you had 139,000 1. 4elers coming from italy million from European Countries where the outbreak was spreading wildly and rapidly. So everybody is looking at china. Meanwhile, the virus had traveled from china to europe, was in europe spreading from europe. We had european travelers coming. They come to the east coast. They land in new york and they go to new jersey and connecticut. They are in the new york area. We are all still looking at china. And thelooking at china travel ban on china may have been helpful, but the horse was already out of the barn in china. The virus had left. It was in europe. Meanwhile, we have european travelers coming here and they are bringing the virus, which is now a different strain of the virus to the east coast. Report that the cdc the deputy director. Delaying travel bans allowed for the virus to spread throughout the u. S. And contributed to the initial acceleration of domestic covid19 cases in march. The timing of travelers should have been earlier. That is a very important fact and is something we have to learn from. From medical school, and anoint the cases which was like watching a train wreck motion tion area slow motion. Nobody was looking at italy at the time. Today we must consider an outbreak anywhere isnt outbreak everywhere. Ajay parkinson. Those are words to remember going forward. An outbreak in china in a number of days will be in europe, from europe it is going to come to the United States, assuming it didnt come from the United States immediately from china. Another lesson we have to learn is our Hospital System. We talk about the Hospital System and we dont have a Public Health system. We have a Hospital System and we learned the hard way about the capacity, equipment, and management of the Hospital System. In new york city, we have only 12 public hospitals. They are the health and Hospitals Corporation run by new york city. There are only 12 hospitals in the Hospital System. 44 hospitals are private hospitals, private institutions. They are regulated by the state, but they are private institutions. Area ofe their own expertise in their own basic clientele, and they are doing ,usiness as individual entities like an individual college. Colleges,system of but each college is individual. It is the same thing with hospitals. Long island, we have for public hospitals. We have 19 private hospitals. , one public and 12 private hudson valley, and the rest of the state to public hospitals, 87 private hospitals. So your Health Care Capacity in the state is all in the hands of private hospitals. Have 176 private hospitals in the state. That is the capacity. But that means you have to now ,ely on those private hospitals get them all to be part of one system, which date to date does not happen daytoday does not happen. We have regulations to say it this is how you must operate, but they operate as individual entities. In the middle of this outbreak, we have to go back to the surge and flex Management System where we said to all 176 private hospitals, we have to Work Together and manage this system as one because hospitals are getting overwhelmed. Maybe within the public system they can share patients and doctors and staff, because you have in new york city 12 hospitals, you can share among but we have to the 176. Ospitals altered together they were getting overwhelmed and now you to share ventilators and share staff and that had never been done. On thethis all basically fly. It was a lot to do and we need to institutionalize these lessons. Part of what we have to learn is what happened with the equipment. This was just a situation that nobody anticipated. It happened all across the country. You couldnt get enough gowns. You couldnt get enough masks. We are going to put in a state requirement now that every hospital has to have a 90 day slide 90 day supply in their own stockpile of all of the ppe equipment they would need for a at the rate of usage that we saw with this covid virus. So every hospital has to have a 90day supply. We cant go through this day moving maskstoday and the mad scramble we were in and still are in in many ways. As a nation, we cant go through this again there was Competition Among states, Competition Among private entities to get this but meant this equipment. The federal government was trying to buy it. I am bidding for new york against other states, texas, california, other states across the country trying to buy the same masks from the same vendor. We wound up bidding up the price. I have people in china and trying to figure out how to buy masks from china. It was totally inefficient and ineffective. The state of massachusetts and governor baker was good enough to work with robert kraft, who had a personal airplane that he and to china to get masks massachusetts was good enough to give some of the masks that a private airplane. Way to deal with the situation. Just drove up prices by our own competition. It was a limited supply and primarily in china and then you had all of these private entities and the federal government and the states trying to buy from china. It made no sense. Lets fix that. Spent 2state alone million on medical supplies this year. That is one state. That is us purchasing from china and around the world area we are gonna form a consortium with our seven northeast partner states, which by about 5 billion with of women and supplies. That will increase our market power when we are buying and we for ppe as a consortium quitman, ventilators, medical equipment, whatever we need to buy when you put all of those hospitals together and all of the publichealth capacity together, which will make us more competitive in the international marketplace. I believe it will save taxpayers money. I also believe it will help us actually get the equipment, because we have trouble still getting the equipment and just buying the equipment, because these vendors on the other side are dealing with countries and dealing with the federal government. Why should they do this is with one state when they can do business with an entire country. This consortium will help us get the equipment and get it at a better price. A regionale up with identification of the equipment that we need. It is all standard equipment. A mask is a mask, a gown is a down. Lets come a gown. Lets come up with the total need and stop doing business with vendors who we found to be irresponsible, and we found out the hard way. I cant tell you how many orders replaced with vendors who were acting basically as brokers who just started businesses in the middle of this pandemic because they saw an opportunity. Lets compare notes among the states to find out who was good to do business and who was not good. Lets see if we cant do the purchasing in this country and if we cant do the purchasing in this region why are we buying all of this material from china, literally billions of dollars of ppe . We will do it in coordination with the federal government. I want to thank our neighbors, and neighboring states. The word neighbor has a different connotation. You dont normally think of the surrounding states as neighbors. You think of the person nextdoor as a neighbor, but they are neighbors and they have acted as neighbors. I cant tell you how supportive governor murphy in new jersey and governor lamont in connecticut and all of the other governors have been, literally where you can pick up a phone and say, i need help masks, do you have any extra . Can i harvest that . Really the way you would do with a neighbor in extraordinary circumstances. You would knock on the door and say, can you are all this . That is how the states responded. It was really a beautiful, operating that was an inspiration to me. It wasnt, i will have my lawyer call your lawyer. It was whatever i can do i will do. In that spirit, we want to keep the coalition together and Work Together and are doing Regional Planning on the reopening, because every state is linked to every other state. People are very immobile right now, so it is a very important relationship for us both productively and from an efficiency point of view. They have been great. They are joining us today. We have governor phil murphy, Governor Ned Lamont and governor john carney. We will start with our neighbor from the great state of new jersey, governor phil murphy. How are you . Murphy i will be brief and say that i echo literally everything you say in terms of what this has been like as well derived. Spiration beginning with you and all of the other governors. Today. It has been truly an inspiration. On behalf of of us in new jersey, i say thank you. We were bartering for equipment and ppe and ventilators. We are still out there. So the notion of coordinating together as a region makes sense. Sign me up new jersey up. Jersey ppe. D in new this makes so much sense. Actively and now a Regional Council with the governors, this is a perfect extension of that relationship. We should not have to be scouring the world and it ought to be made in the usa and better yet, made in the states. Made in our states. That is something we want to strive for. We are doing this in new jersey and finding a way to make this area you said that we are all going to do within our four walls, Regional Cooperation matters so much. This is a great example of that. Lastly, this is in partnership with the federal government. To work with our citizens and people in the region and with the federal government every step of the way. Thank you for having me on today. Thank you to you governor and to the other governors in this group. We are looking forward to better days ahead. Governor cuomo thank you very much, evan or murphy. We have learned so much about ppe over the past few weeks. I think we can make gowns ourselves at this point. Give us some sewing machines and i think we can actually contribute. Thank you very much. God bless you. Stay well. Anything you need, we are here. We will go to the great state of connecticut. Governor lamont, thank you for being with us and thank you for all you have done, as much as for the people of connecticut and for the entire northeast. Good to be with you. Governor lamont back at you. Connecticut, we got into this together and realized we had to do when it came to closing down parts of our service economy. We did that together and we are opening it up together. That is the way it works best. We have learned something and we have to wait for the National Stockpile and wait for the plane to land from china lets see what we can do ourselves. We are much stronger together as you pointed out. I wouldnt mind having some of that new york disempower and thank you for sharing that purchasing power, and thank you for that. The amazing pharmaceutical industry in new jersey. You helped us with reagents and what we could do in terms of gowns being produced in rhode island and what we can do together to make sure this next round we control more of our own say you are ordering up all of the Christmas Trees and they are going to arrive on december 26, im saying im afraid this is still just the beginning, as you brought up, Governor Cuomo. We are planning for the next round of this, making sure we can control our own destiny going forward. Thank you forgetting us together. Veryor cuomo thank you much. We are spending billions of dollars, why not buy from our own vendors in our own region . Why are we buying from china . Im sure there are a lot of own businesses within our own state that if they knew they had that kind of purchasing they were looking at, they would either adopt their business or grow their business so we could buy from them. We woulde right control our own destiny rather than everyone trying to figure out how to buy from china. God bless you. We are here. Whats going out to Governor Wolf from pennsylvania. Good to be with you, tom. Thank you very much for everything you have been doing. Thank you for being a great neighbor to the state of new york and all your surrounding states stop surrounding states. Thank you for organizing this. A few weeks ago, we all got together and announced we were going to Work Together to fight this pandemic. By workingn that together, we can do a lot more than we can do if each of us works on our own. Today is a specific example of that. We can Work Together to buy the things we need to allow our Health Care System to have the capacity it needs to fight this fight. We need to help our hospitals, we need to help our health care workers, our longterm care facilities, our first responders, all of those things. What you are doing here and what we are doing is pulling together to make sure we are doing all of those things. Part of this is testing. Its not just the equipment. We need to Work Together to build the capacity to test or we are not going to be able to give our citizens the confidence they need to go back to work. They are not going to have the confidence we need them to have to go back to school or back to the store or back to worship. Those things are really important and by working together, we can pull our financial resources. Thats important and significant. We can actually pull the brainpower that exists, the great institutions in our areas and that manufacturers who can make this stuff, all of that, we can pull together and if we can do that even with something as difficult as testing, i think we are going to make sure we get through this in the best possible way. Thank you for pulling this together and im proud to be with you. Gov. Cuomo you are so right. We are creating new industries. Who ever heard of the Testing Industry or tracing industry or these reagents that all of these tests now use . Even the demand on ppe, this is a whole new world for all of us. But there is also an Economic Opportunity in it and we should take advantage of it because we need it and its not going away. Its going to be a major industry going forward, so lets make sure it happens here. The help, tom, for all and everything you are doing. You are an inspiration to all of us. Cornyn governor john with us from delaware. Thank you for being with us and thank you for all the support and thank you for the friendship through all of this, which is also very important. Just the personal support is important as we are going through this as colleagues. Thank you for being with us today. You, Governor Cuomo for thisding delaware in coalition and thank you for your leadership in the state of new york, particularly metro new york city with your colleague governors on either side of you. We hearts go out to you as see the numbers. I was happy to see your numbers on the chart at the beginning of your Conference Today as they trend downward. That is a good and positive thing. Thanks for including us we like to refer to us as a state of neighbors. There are just 5 million delaware ians here on the southern end of this side of i95 and the amtrak northeast corridor which connects all of us stop the two governors at the bottom of my screen are great partners, Governor Wolf and governor murphy, on either side of the state of delaware are important with collaboration. At this issue with respect of purchasing together ppe and most importantly, as Governor Wolf mentioned, the testing equipment and capacity is so important for a small state like ours, to have , governorsing power cuomo of new york and new jersey and connecticut, pennsylvania and massachusetts and rhode island its so incredibly important for us in terms of getting the right pricing. If we are going headtohead with new york, we are not going to get it. If we are along the shoulder to shoulder with you, with governor murphy and Governor Wolf, weve got a good chance of getting a better price and getting the product we need and through all of this, the other thing that was interesting to me in winning the coalition was all the assets the other states can bring to the table in terms of intellectual capacity, research institutions, your hospitals. We know there are going to be breakthroughs in testing and other kinds of technology that help us as we respond to this. I couldnt be happier to be part of this coalition, to be part of your leadership team, with my two neighbors here in the southern end of our coalition and to each of you, thanks for the great work you are providing to the citizens. I tell people all the time that its going to be way harder, the decisions we have to make in reopening our economies in phases then it was shutting things down, in my view, just because of the balance we need to strike their. We will do that working together with the expertise of this coalition and the purchasing power in particular this initiative will bring to the state of delaware. Thanks very much. Gov. Cuomo thank you, governor carney. Governor carney is right, its going to be easier to shut down then to reopen. You take the power switch and go from on to off. There was an urgent need, it was an emergency. Reopening is more of an art form and i think my gubernatorial colleagues thank my gubernatorial colleagues for doing this together. We also have the governors of rhode island and massachusetts who are part of the coalition. You go through situations in life which are unexpected ok, you do your best and then you learn from them and you grow. That is what we are trying to do here today. Because people expect more from government than ever before. I believe this has been transformative for a generation. About when was the last time government was this vital . Dont know maybe in a war . World war ii, when government had to mobilize overnight . But literally for decades, you havent seen government this essential to human life, literally. Work and itas to has to work well and its not for the faint of heart. People want government to perform and government is making decisions every day that affect their lives and they deserve the best government. They are paying for it, they deserve it and they deserve competence and expertise and smarts and for government to be doing Creative Things and learning like we are doing today. Time, government is working, we are trying our best, we are working seven days a week, we are doing a lot of good work, a lot of creative work. But this is not just about government. Its too easy to point fingers. This one has to do that, this one has to do that. In this. Son has a part every person has a part. For everyone in new york city yesterday,i was here we are all very thankful to our health care heroes, our frontline workers, our essential workers. You watch television and there are all of these nice commercials, thank everyone for what they did and we should. Nurses, doctors, transit workers, god bless them. But if you really want to say thank you, make their life easier by not getting sick. And not making someone else sick. Role is actls responsibly and intelligently for yourself, for your family, and for your community. Wear a mask. Wear a mask. Step, right . Asic social distance, you cant socially distance, you are in new york city, youre going to walk up next to a person, wear a mask. Its not the most attractive garment ever created. So what . It feelsnt like uncomfortable, unnatural. So what . You want to honor the healthcare workers and the people who literally gave their lives in some cases for what they did here . Act responsibly. Wear a mask. I know the weather is getting warmer and i know people want to get out of their house. Fine. Wear a mask and socially distance. That is your social responsibility in the middle of this overall pandemic. When we talk about new yorkers together and this spirit of unity and how people are helping one another and how tough we are and how smart we are and how disciplined we are and how we love one another show it. You know how you show love . By wearing a mask. Please. Questions . When you talked about a different strain being here coming from europe, is it a more deadly strain . Because the death toll was so much higher here than other places . Gov. Cuomo i dont know. Some have said that. Its not my field. They said to totally different strains. Ive heard from some medical professionals that our strain was actually more verlander than the strain that came from china, whatever the mutation was that happened in europe made our strain more verlander. More virulent. Nobody was into the painting this european connection. Fordy was saying watch out the people from italy. They were just walking through our airports. We had the federal officials at all of our airports and they were doing screening they were screening people from china. Nobody was screening people from europe and the european travel ban did not go until march, midmarch we didnt do a full european travel ban. They were coming, nobody was screening, no elitist testing, nobody was looking, nobody even knew to look. Wherever they came in new york, nobody was on notice. Nobody said watch for people from italy, watch for people from ireland and the u. K. We were totally unaware and then apparently its a different strain. Once it gets to new york, now you have that density in new york. Density is the enemy here. Dense housing, dense transportation, dense sidewalks. In that density, it takes off like a fire through dry grass and then it spreads to new jersey, connecticut, that whole area. But especially since nobody knew. Nobody knew. We were doing this every day. Nobody ever talked about transmission through europe. Mask. Ave a the road tout recovery and reopening as being an art form. How much of this is based on some personal observation for the last couple of days and got instinct as opposed to the numbers and benchmarks you say are so important . Gov. Cuomo good question. Data. Follow the i believe you can do this as a science. Is it science or is it art . Lets say its a combination. But dryvit as a science. Do it by the numbers. The spread ofting the virus. Equation. Athematical the more you open, the higher the rate of infection will spread. The question is how much does it spread . How fast does it spread . How fast is it spreading compared to your Health Care Capacity . Thats the formula. You can plug numbers into that formula and that is what we are doing. Thats the rate of transmission. We want to keep the rate of transmission below 1. 1. We are at about. 7, so we have ed margin of error of. 72 1. 1. 7 two 1. 1. That is what we are trying to educate our local government about. You want to open your region or county, when will the state reopen my region . Heres the formula. Plug the numbers in and look at what the formula says. That is the science of it. Talk in this political these political opinions, i like itstress the science because belies the politics and the emotion. Look at the numbers. Look at the numbers. Look, ive been in the federal government, state government, i was the attorney general, i did emergencies in the federal government all across the nation, all across the world. So you bring an educated your word was got instinct as you bring an educated got to it, i bring an educated got to it because ive gone through this tore an educated gut it. What does your gut tell you at the moment . Gut says they weather is going to warm, people are ordered, people want this over, they see the numbers go down and they take false comfort. Its going down, that means its over. We never said its over, we said the numbers are going down. We said roughly a thousand new people every day walk into the hospitals. Oh no, its basically over. I hear other states are reopening . No. We are not out of the woods. We are in this very dense environment and you can see this virus pick up dramatically. And it is not going down. Down. Bringing it that number was going like this. The only reason the number is going like this is because new projectionbbed that curve with two hands and pulled it down. That is why it went like this. You go back to your old behavior, that number goes right back up. And its warm and you want to get out of the house and everybody is and see and im worried about my job. Letsbig caution sign watch the numbers. We are are going down very dense environment. We almost overwhelmed the whole health system. Caution moving forward. How people cannot wear masks, that to me is disrespectful. It is disrespectful. Its disrespectful to the nurses, the doctors, the people who have been frontline workers, you wear the mask not for yourself, you wear the mask for me. Its a sign of respect to other people. , that isme sick disrespectful. I have to go to the hospital, have to call an ambulance, thats an ambulance driver. I have to go and thats a nurse, that they dr. , they have to put on ppe. They have to risk being exposed to the virus because you would not wear a mask . Because you wouldnt wear a mask you put so many people at risk because you did not want to wear a mask. I think thats disrespectful by you. It is disrespectful of your relationship and obligation to one another. Yes, we are all individuals. We are individuals who live in a community in the middle of a Global Pandemic. Just be responsible and show respect. I dont think thats too much for each of us to ask of one another. Thats a basic common decency in this situation. Governor, there are media reports from yesterday and weve seen a lot of people going to central park, the beaches of oconee island, two spaces all over the city. Is there enough enforcement of social distancing and is it safe so long as people wear masks and keep a little space for people to linger sometimes all afternoon at parks across the city . You aremo ideally, if protecting yourselves and your loved ones if you are a member of a vulnerable population, the idea is to stay indoors. No doubt. However, you cant stay indoors forever and the weather is nice. Getting outside, getting some exercise, getting fresh air is good. Staying socially distant and wearing a mask are basic precautions that should keep you safe. Not as good as staying in the house, but should keep you safe. That assumes people around you are wearing masks, people around you are acting responsibly, so its not even a situation you can control yourself. What happens to you is dependent on what i do and how i act. Sneeze onar a mask, i a park bench, you walk up two minutes later and sit on the park bench or walk up half an hour later, maybe and sit on the park bench. You put your hand down and then you wipe your face. Now you have a problem because of me. That is why the mask wearing. Knowe local enforcement, i new york city, mayor de blasio has made a real effort. I said to all the local government heads, and force it. Because its not only wrong, a Public Health risk, its such a little thing to ask of people and at a time when people are with the transit workers yesterday, going train to train disinfecting, getting on their hands and knees and blowing disinfectant on the seat and wiping it all down people doing unprecedented work and you cant even wear a mask . Is a few dozen summonses enough . Is that commensurate with the level of need to social distance . Gov. Cuomo we have said this from day one. We are in new york state and we are also operating in the state of reality. Will you ever get 19 Million People to comply because you give them a summons . No. They will comply because they know the fact and because they choose and deemed that it is intelligent and reasonable to comply. Is how i started this from day one. I could have done a closedown order and new yorkers could have that with no words and just not complied with it and then what would i do . Run around giving summonses . It wouldnt work. Went through all the facts, explained why. A new level of personal behavior now. We are asking people to undertake. I think they will get it. Its not going to happen because of Law Enforcement, but Law Enforcement has a role. They have to understand it and they have to get it and if new enforcers ofe best social behavior are other new yorkers. If new yorkers get it, you walked down the street without a mask, i think other new yorkers are going to let you know. As long as they let you do that within the bounds of decorum, i dont think thats a bad thing. You talked about lessons learned. Is there something to be learned and ppearding equipment being manufactured overseas and would you say maybe its time to rethink mobilization policies in the direction this country has been going in for the last 30 years . Gov. Cuomo i dont know that you have to go to globalization policy. You are not going to change the macroeconomic forces, but i think there is a lesson to learn and what we are trying to actually deliver on. This is an emergency service. In a snowstorm, you have to be able to get salt and have snowplows. In a hurricane, you have to have pumps. In a Public Health emergency, you have to have ppe. Ppe that we have to go to china for the ppe, think about that. You couldnt even get it in this nation. We started making our own in the state, but that is a National Security issue to me. Able to get masks and gowns and whatever medical equipment you need so this nation can run in the middle of an emergency. Macroeconomics, just from a National Security point of view, i think yes, you have to be able to do that you cant be dependent on china to have the basic equipment to save lives in the United States. That is what this came down to. Robertt that kraft, god bless him, owns the new England Patriots, new England Patriots havent done new yorkers a lot of favors over the years, but great sports team. Has to send aft private plane to china to pick up masks from massachusetts . Thats how we handle a Global Pandemic . Call mr. Kraft and say can you do me a favor, governor baker, as long as the plane is going, can you pick up some masks for me . Two major states in the middle of a pandemic robert kraft is sending a plane . You guys want to comment on anything . I would just add on your point when you asked about the higher cases in new york and the west coast and the very limit stream. There are mixed views out there but its important to her member that the travel ban here did not happen until march 16 when they closed it down to most of europe. They did the asia travel ban at the end of january, so those flights go to the west coast and the flights from europe come to newark and new york. Gov. Cuomo and of january, you do the china travel ban. You dont do the u. K. Travel ban to the middle of march. And of january to the middle of march. The virus was not hanging out in china waiting for you during january, you got on a plane, you went to europe and then spread in europe and from january to mid march was coming from europe right here. That, there was this false sense of security in that the cdc was doing this testing and they were saying theres no cases in new york, but the people they were testing , they were testing a select few fromg off planes coming their hotspot designated regions and then letting everybody else come through the front door without doing temperature checks, without checking any of the symptoms you would have, so in retrospect, what did everyone think was going to happen . There were 10,700 cases here in february. Are there any benchmarks you are looking at for when you might do overnight Subway Service again . Would the overnight Subway Service return look like . Service willubway return when the pandemic ends. You tell me when the pandemic ends and i will tell you when it resumes. Indont really have a choice truth. Most of these issues, we dont have a choice. You do what you have to do. Whethert have a choice we bought ppe from china. We dont have a choice whether we disinfect the trains. I was so grateful to the front line who show up every day. Ink about what we did here. To new to explain yorkers how vicious this virus was so they would honor the. Losedown the next sentence out of my mouth is yes, its vicious, we need to close down, the next is we need essential workers to come to work tomorrow morning. You just said it was a vicious virus and i should stay home, but now essential workers have to come to work . Yes. We need people to run the buses and the trains and we need the doctors and food on the shelves. You want to see things go bad in a hurry . No food on the shelves. Right . No electric power. You want to see panic and anarchy . You needed those essential workers. So god bless them. And we still need them. But at a minimum, talking about respect to wear a mask, they use Public Transit. I am not going to ask them to come to work, to get on Public Transit unless we know the Public Transit is safe. And safe in this case means clean. We talk about the density as a spreader. Yes, that is true. But also, Public Transit if it is not clean can spread. One of the surfaces the virus lives longest on his stainless steel is stainless steel. Look at all the poles of the subway cars, you have to clean the cars. I am grateful to the frontline workers for coming out. They need the Public Transit. We owe it to them that it is safe and clean. And to do that, you have to close it down from 1 00 a. M. To 5 00 a. M. First time ever closed down, yes. But also, 92 reduction in ridership so it is down to like 8 . 1 00 to 5 00 a. M. Is the lowest period of ridership so people will work through the night to clean the trains, but it is the least for the essential workers and for anyone. We have to be able to say our Public Transit system is safe and it is clean. And especially getting ready, planning to reopen. You cannot do anything without a Public Transit system that people have confidence in. Clean andg that it is they know how to disinfect it and have been disinfecting it, i think that is vital to confidence in new york. Right . Which is a big factor that we have to put in the equation here. Withconfidence and comfort the situation in new york in the midst of this pandemic. President trump is still moving ahead regardless of the other things you need. Are working with the federal government. Whatever they can do to help is great. But this is also an ongoing situation. I dont want to sit here and just say i will wait for the help from the federal government. Whatever help they give us is great, but it is also clear from the federal government that it is up to governors, up to governors, up to governors. So whatever we can do on our own so we are not reliant on anyone, that is the best. Thanks, guys. Gov. Cuomo wear a mask. In case you did not get the message. Thank you. 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