{"id":325,"date":"2020-04-02T21:43:38","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T21:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.justtalk.blog\/?p=325"},"modified":"2020-04-03T12:03:39","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T12:03:39","slug":"broome-county-covid-know-nothings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justtalk.blog\/index.php\/2020\/04\/02\/broome-county-covid-know-nothings\/","title":{"rendered":"Broome County COVID Know Nothings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Do they really not know? Or why won&#8217;t they tell us?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/justtalk.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/garnar-press-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-326\" width=\"174\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/justtalk.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/garnar-press-2.jpg 433w, https:\/\/justtalk.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/garnar-press-2-273x300.jpg 273w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 174px) 100vw, 174px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When posed the simplest questions at his daily press conference, Broome County Executive Jason Garnar has a standard answer:  \u201cI don\u2019t know\u201d<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How many tests are there in Broome County? \u201cI don\u2019t know\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How many ventilators are there in the county? \u201cI don\u2019t know\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How many ICU beds in the county? \u201cI don\u2019t know\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why don\u2019t we have tests like the 10,000 available in Ithaca? \u201cI don\u2019t know\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What are the profiles of persons who tested positive? &#8220;I can&#8217;t say&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is being done to inform and help isolate those who come into contact with persons who have COVID-19 or die from it? <em>We Don&#8217;t Know.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/justtalk.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Kaufman.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-337\" width=\"113\" height=\"131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/justtalk.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Kaufman.jpg 408w, https:\/\/justtalk.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Kaufman-259x300.jpg 259w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 113px) 100vw, 113px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Director of the county&#8217;s Health Department can&#8217;t seem to help him either. How many persons at the nursing home with so many cases&#8211;and how have their families been followed, or tested, or had their contacts tracked?  &#8220;I don&#8217;t know, ask them&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>We do know, <\/em>thanks to press reports from family members, that the second person who died from COVID-19 died without the county informing the family of the death or county officials asking who came into contact with the family or the loved one they lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And what of the hundreds of staff, inmates, correctional officers and visitors to the BC jail in March, which had a working and infected correctional officer on duty?  <em>We don&#8217;t know<\/em>. Scores of persons outside and inside report no questions asked, no persons followed, only two persons inside apparently tested. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">County residents are smart. They can see through these daily evasions and diversions. Look at only a few of the comments on Jason Garnar&#8217;s facebook page:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/justtalk.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/garnar-clip-ventilators-he-doesnt-know.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-335\" width=\"468\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/justtalk.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/garnar-clip-ventilators-he-doesnt-know.jpg 358w, https:\/\/justtalk.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/garnar-clip-ventilators-he-doesnt-know-300x86.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/justtalk.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/garnar-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-330\" width=\"529\" height=\"81\" srcset=\"https:\/\/justtalk.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/garnar-7.jpg 701w, https:\/\/justtalk.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/garnar-7-300x46.jpg 300w, https:\/\/justtalk.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/garnar-7-676x104.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 529px) 100vw, 529px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/justtalk.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/garnar-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-331\" width=\"522\" height=\"114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/justtalk.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/garnar-8.jpg 701w, https:\/\/justtalk.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/garnar-8-300x66.jpg 300w, https:\/\/justtalk.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/garnar-8-676x149.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/justtalk.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Garnar-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-333\" width=\"501\" height=\"126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/justtalk.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Garnar-11.jpg 658w, https:\/\/justtalk.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Garnar-11-300x76.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/justtalk.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/garner-clips-vs-mass-eg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-334\" width=\"426\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/justtalk.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/garner-clips-vs-mass-eg.jpg 387w, https:\/\/justtalk.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/garner-clips-vs-mass-eg-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 426px) 100vw, 426px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do they really not know? Or why won&#8217;t they tell us? When posed the simplest questions at his daily press conference, Broome County Executive Jason Garnar has a standard answer: \u201cI don\u2019t know\u201d How many tests are there in Broome County? \u201cI don\u2019t know\u201d How many ventilators are there in the county? \u201cI don\u2019t know\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justtalk.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justtalk.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justtalk.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justtalk.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justtalk.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/justtalk.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343,"href":"https:\/\/justtalk.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions\/343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justtalk.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justtalk.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justtalk.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justtalk.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}