It is surprising that the seriousness of wearing a mask and social distancing was last as the New York City released the lockdown.
People at Brooklyn beer garden, Manhattan’s Upper East Side, in East Village and a jazz band playing outside the bars on St. Marks road is filled with people without masks.
On Saturday, Andrew M. Cuomo wrote on twitter “Don’t make me come down there” in response to one of the videos of the maskless crowd.
Even though 20,000 neighbors died, not wearing masks was taken for granted after the country eased its lockdown restrictions and seems like everyone has forgotten social distancing.
Cuomo issued a serious message for Mayor Bill de Balsio to cut down on crowding or the city would shut down again.
Further Cuomo said, “I understand it’s not popular. Nobody wants to go to a sidewalk with people drinking and say, ‘You people can’t drink on the sidewalk,”
“You know what’s more unpopular? If that region closes because that local government did not do their job.”
He says, since the pandemic started, Cuomo’s received 25,000 complaints about health-safety violations.
A lot of themclosed restaurants and bars in Manhattan and the Hamptons on Long Island.
After bartenders were tested positive for coronavirus, Austin, Phoenix, and St. Petersburg, Fla.Had all shut down.
The bars and restaurants were allowed to be open only under the governor’s guidelines.
One of the spokesperson said “We must balance safety with people’s need to reopen their businesses,” the spokesperson said. “We don’t believe imprisoning people or taking away their livelihood is the answer.”
He says that people are just trying to get back to the pre-pandemic situation after going through quarantine, protests and then keeping themselves locked in their apartments.
Similarly, another patron said he was acting on the advice of a phone app that sends him a daily message: “You are going to die one day.”
“So, I get that text and I think, well, what’s it matters, now or in 50 years?” Brooklyn resident Tom James told KCBS.
Since April, the cases and fatalities in New York have reduced where more than 1,000 people were dying each day.
Since Sunday, the virus-related hospitalizations were at 1,700 which has drastically reduced since March 22nd.
Among 10 regions in the State, New York entered Phase 1 last week by permitting construction and manufacturing as well as curbside pickup at many retail stores with only 10 people allowed to gather at a time.
Additionally, they were to maintain a distance of 6 feet and any kind of outdoor dining was to be kept closed until Phase 2.
Over the weekend, local law enforcement agencies had been passing out face coverings and dispersing crowds asking people to “Take out, don’t hang out.”
At St. Marks Place and the surrounding neighborhood, police wereflooded to control St. Marks place and the surrounding neighborhood, helping bar managers control the crowdby keeping them in a line.
A group of local elected officials requested New Yorkers to practice social distancing and cover their faces in public.
The President, Gale Brewer said she was “tremendously concerned about any spread. All it takes is one person”.
De Blasio said the city would shut down gatherings though he mentioned that the police would later stress on only the largest violations related to criticism where authorities were targeting black and Latino neighborhoods.
After seeing pictures of all the bars and restaurants, the Governor said he had personally called storefronts with takeout food and drinks.
If people keep violating rules, he warned that they would lose their liquor licenses. He was quite serious about this.
