Tom Shepstone
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Tom Wolf keeps siding with New Yorkers over Pennsylvanians. He has allied with them on a fracking ban and now wants to follow their lead on the virus. Why?
Pennsylvania appears over the hump on the Wuhan Virus. Our new daily infections yesterday were down 843 or 42% from their high on April 9 (last Thursday. There are several other good indicators as well, all suggesting it’s to end the insanity and get bak to work, albeit with common sense safety measures. The public is demanding it, in fact, but Tom Wolf says he’s going to work with New York and other Northeast neighbors to follow Andrew Cuomo’s lead. Well, we’ve seen how that works haven’t we? If the DRBC experience has taught us anything, it’s that Tom Wolf care more about the views of SoHo snobs than Pennsylvanians.
Despite the lavish praise of a Democrat press anxious to have Governor Corruptocrat on a ticket this Fall, his state is no model to follow on anything. He was denying there was a virus problem in early March. Orange County alone, with less than 380,000 people, has had 50 more Wuhan Virus deaths to date than Philadelphia, a city of 1.5 million.
Moreover, if one analyzes the Pennsylvania data carefully (see my analysis here), it quickly becomes apparent the Wuhan Virus problem we have, to the extent we have one is New York driven. We have 67 counties in the Commonwealth, but a dozen counties listed below that account for 39% of the state population account for 75% of the infections and 71% of the deaths. All but two of these counties have population densities that are above Pennsylvania’s average 277 persons per square mile. They average 935 persons per square mile, in fact, and Philadelphia, of course, has an extensive mass transit system.
But, density and mass transit, while being obviously important factors, are not the thing that stands out to me. No, what jumps off the table is the fact all these counties, with the exception of tiny Montour, are located along the eastern side of the Keystone State where they have been the first impacted by what’s happening in the New York metro area. Our problem began with New Yorkers and moved west into Pennsylvania where it has now begun to dissipate. Compare Allegheny County (Pittsburgh) with 1.2 million people and only 24 deaths to Nassau County in New York with 1.4 million people and 1,001 deaths and you know everything you need to know.
Yet, just as Tom Wolf has followed New York with respect to a DRBC fracking ban, throwing Pennsylvanians’ interests to the wind, he now proposes to do so again by letting Andrew Cuomo decide when we should end the wacky Wuhan wait. What an abysmal executive, but what you can you expect from a trust-funder?
Both Wolf and Cuomo were born with silver spoons in their mouths. In effect they are considered “royalty” amongst their ever adoring vacuous crowd and rule with a rusty iron fist.
I definitely hope it never comes to this but it will be their own fault if they don’t read up on the ongoings of late 18th Century France.
Obviously, they appear to be too dense to figure that out.
Dense.
Tom, why did you include Lebanon county, with 328 cases, and not Bucks, which is right on the river, with 1300 cases. We are an excellent example of what Governor Wolf (and his accomplice, Cuomo) did to our state by not either preventing New Yorkers from fleeing, or insisting they quarantine (which means not leaving your home) once they got here.
There are a lot of vacation homes for NYers in Bucks County, (and lots more who work in the city) and Tom Wolf did nothing to keep those who live or work in the location with the highest infection rate in the country from infecting us too.
I contacted his office about this early on, and the county commissioners, who told me that only governor Wolf had the authority to do anything about the NYers flooding into PA.
The list is simply those with above average rates of infection. Bucks was just below the state average.
But if your premise is that this is New York-driven, Bucks is much more affected by New York than counties near Harrisburg.
My list is simply based on rates of infection. I didn’t choose to include or exclude any county. I could have made the list longer to include Bucks but that would have been awkward given it had a very slowly lower than average rate compared to the state. That Bucks has significant cases and they mostly come from New York is still true.
Cuomo leading from behind as usual – https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/15/835500458/ny-gov-cuomo-orders-public-mask-use-to-curb-covid-19-spread So that makes Wolf following a follower? Doesn’t get any worse than that.
Washington County, in SWPA, does not rely heavily on mass transit has less than 100 confirmed cases and only 1 maybe 2 deaths last time I checked. We are being held hostage because of what is happening in Philly and NYC.
Petition to over-ride Wolf’s veto on opening the economy. https://www.empowerpa.org/action/?vvsrc=%2fcampaigns%2f73524%2frespond
I agree with the Ban on Fracking
but do not agree on the Ban on the virus.
Shutting down our Nation and World is major overkill
and this solution is more deadly than the virus.
Speaking of Fracking….I was talking with a co-worker the other day that makes an annual drive to Southern PA for farm supplies. He had commented “it is unbelievable how those old dilapidated farms that once covered the PA countryside are now beautiful pristine operating farmland all re-built and multiple pieces of new $50k-$100k tractors out front – not 1, but 3 New Tractors”. Just 10 years ago rural PA was a ghost town and now it is thriving – all on account of Fracking. Great great works down there – can’t commend CABOT enough.
To paraphrase the Wizard of Id….King Tom the Wolf is a Fink!!!
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