Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

(long time follower, just noting how I've felt recently reading your tweets vs a year or two ago. Again, feel free to ignore. Would have DMed this, but closed so buried thread seems next best)

My tolerance for people's tendency to bring whatever their pet slogan or sound bite is onto my tweets is running close to zero, probably because the volume has become ridiculous as I've gained followers.

I'm not going to sit here and explain the difference between criticizing New York's strategy and criticizing an unfair comparison to California. It's right there in the tweet! I'm generally aiming for an unfollow so I don't have to deal with future fallout.

Hey fair enough. FWIW: “New York is The Best at COVID” is very far from a pet slogan of mine. I just think that the comparison to CA is quite fair and that while you’re right 99/100 times on this subject, this is the time you’re not. That’s all.

A state can't kill its vulnerable twice, and it's going to have GREAT buy-in for otherwise burdensome public policy **after** its banner city's streets have been lined with makeshift morgues. Whatever brownie points you think it ought to get, I call horseshit.

The governance of both the city and the state is fucking rotten, and doing victory laps to boot. NYers should be calling for heads. They wouldn't even correct their horrendous nursing home policy until the NYT/national press made it an embarassment. It's fucking sick, man.

This part I agree with you about - and did agree with even before this crisis for the record.

But a) NYS is objectively safe now, perhaps the safest place in the country; and b) I think that’s an important fact for the media to communicate, even if some could confuse it for “which state has the best governance”=>”which governor should get brownie points”.