Governor Cuomo and saving one life

It's hard to imagine anything more ridiculous than Cuomo saying/implying that he'll keep New York shut down to save one life when he says that unborn babies can be aborted right up through when they're being delivered.

No sane person questions the humanity, or the ability to feel pain, of a baby at term who is actually in the process of being born.  But Cuomo spearheaded the successful effort of New York Democrats to make killing that baby legal for any reason.

Clearly Cuomo's attachment to human life is very loose at best.

Yet now he's destroying the lives of everyone in New York by apparently refusing to take into account the lives that will be lost if he shuts the state down forever.

Based on his statements he will shut NY down forever because the simple reality is that the China virus won't go away and any vaccine or cure won't be 100% effective.

Hence when people go out some are going to die.

But people are going to die due to the collapse of the economy in New York. Based on data we have on the relationship between unemployment and deaths due to suicide/drug use if unemployment hits 32% around 77,000 people are going to die.

Prorating that to the population of New York that tells us that if America doesn't get back to work about 4400 New York state residents will die.

But Cuomo knows that the longer the shutdown goes on the more power he'll have and the more likely it is that Joe Biden will be elected President.

If one were cynical one might almost think that Cuomo cares more about power than about the people of New York.

The reality is simple; young healthy people are no more at risk from the China virus than they are from the flu.

We should be opening up the country in a responsible way by letting healthy people out while providing support for those who are at higher risk to avoid getting infected.

But Democrats like Cuomo seemingly aren't buying into that common sense position.  Oddly by doing so they think they're making their political future's rosier.