Andrew Cuomo on vaccine drives

We have to get in those communities, and we have to knock on those doors, and we have to convince people, and put them in a car, and drive them, and get that vaccine in their arm.  That is the mission.

~ New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, "Cuomo Says He Will Knock On Doors And Put People In Cars To Get COVID-19 Vaccine," Shore News Network, July 26, 2021

Andrew Cuomo on the coronavirus: "In many ways fear is more dangerous than the virus"

As this has gone on, we said we are fighting a war on two fronts: We're fighting the virus and we're fighting fear... In many ways fear is more dangerous than the virus.

~ Governor Andrew Cuomo, press conference in Albany, 3:54 mark, March 19, 2020

Jeffrey Tucker on the coronavirus panic

Consider this. On Thursday March 26, [New York governor Andrew] Cuomo dared question the orthodoxy that has wrecked countless businesses and lives. He revealed what actual experts are saying quietly all over the world but had yet not been discussed openly in the endless public-relations spin broadcast all day and night.

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It’s true that anyone following the unfolding fiasco and the gradually emerging data behind it knows that Cuomo is right. The response has not been modern and scientific. It has been medieval and mystical. The theory behind the policy has been nothing but a panicked cry of run and hide before the noxious gas gets you. Lacking reliable data – which is the fault of the CDC and FDA – we replaced knowledge with power.

~ Jeffrey Tucker, "We Were Wrong: So Sorry That We Ruined Your Life," AIER.org, March 28, 2020