Cuomo’s an authoritarian, corrupt pigfucker. I mean, his response to COVID was better than other states’, but prior to COVID, he looted NYC transportation funds, stalled on marijuana legalization, and generally played upstate against NYC.

He’s also focusing on minutiae in the state’s COVID response (what kind of food has to be served with outdoor drinks, no joke) instead of realizing that hospitalization rates are still falling in NY with existing policy and enacting stricter policies to contain imported cases.

There’s a $2000 fine for not quarantining if you come from a hotspot state, but this is barely enforced. I’d like to see a requirement that all airlines using indoor air terminals in NY state have to require proof of a negative COVID swab no more than two days before boarding in addition to quarantine. That way, we’d be less likely to be landing flights of people where half the passengers have been exposed into NY state. Ideally, he’d work with NJ and New England states towards a uniform policy on this.

If countries like Taiwan, St. Lucia, and Croatia can do this, why can’t we?