I read an interesting article today that compared the response to Coronavirus in Seattle with that of NYC in an attempt to identify why Seattle was successful while New York has been a disaster. Boiled down to the essence, Seattle was successful because it’s elected officials checked their egos at the door and actually listened to its healthcare professionals and did the hard work of tracking identifying and isolating the ill and those exposed to them. Meanwhile in New York City, the governor and the mayor engaged in a battle of press releases, allowing the disease to get ahead of them and out of control. As a result thousands and thousands died. Left unsaid in the article was that New York’s “health experts” were complicit in this dance of death. As the virus was spreading the NYC Health commissioner followed the lead of the city’s half wit mayor and encouraged people to ignore federal guidelines about distancing and so on, stating that the virus wasn’t spread by close contact and that people should attend lunar new year celebrations, hit the Broadway circuit and generally be out on the town. Meanwhile, in the face of every bit of evidence that the virus was the most dangerous to the elderly and those with preexisting conditions, the state health commissioner and the governor ordered nursing homes to take back patients ill with the Coronavirus, refused to allow the patients to be moved, failed to provide necessary equipment and failed even to follow the simple steps of sister states that identified particular nursing homes as destinations for corona sufferers and providing them with necessary support. Thousands and thousands died as a result.