Putting hope

.....But, Christopher, there is an art form here which is overlaying a public health strategy and an economic strategy. In other words, what we did is, we just closed everything down as quickly as we could. Shut all the doors, border all the windows. There was no art to what we did, no nuance. Is there a public health strategy that says, "Look, you can start to bring young people back to work. You can start to test and find out who had the virus and who resolved from the virus, and they can start to go back to work." That's how we'll restart the economy with a smart public health strategy, because closing the door on everyone was only because we didn't know better, right? If you now look at it, it didn't make any sense to close the schools, send my kids home with me or older people, or with grandmothers who were vulnerable to this virus. And young people were then maybe bringing it into the house. We didn't have any data or science to instruct us. But now you can come up with a smarter public health strategy that actually protects older people, lets younger people get back to work, and that can start the economic recovery. But it has to be that smart. It can't be reactive. It can't be emotional.
Chris Cuomo: Not right now. You're the man right now. Why is that? 
Governor Cuomo: Because I'm your brother, that's why. The best decision was closing everything down. which politically may have terrible consequences, but so what, it was the right thing to do. That's what pop taught us, you do the right thing, closing everything down was the right decision. The worst decision, which is a lousy question by you, is probably coming on your show, frankly.
.... I put hope. We have three drugs we're looking at. The hydroxychloroquine that the President it talking about - that comes in tomorrow. We're going to start that right away in the New York City hospitals - the President expedited the FDA approval. We have a second drug that New York State is working on developing, that actually tests the plasma of people who had the virus, extracts the antibodies and injects those antibodies into someone who's dealing with the virus. And the third drug is testing the blood to see if you had the virus and have the antibodies and have resolved, that would let you know you had it, you're immune by most probability and you can go back to work.
23 March 202020

A great early result from a drug that will start tomorrow in New York and other places! #COVIDー19 5:05 PM - 23 Mar 2020 Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump

Lo studio francese che ha generato entusiasmo ( speranza all'ottimismo) è stato condotto su un campione di ventisei pazienti che erano a conoscenza del test in corso.
Un trial affidabile richiede maggiore accuratezza. Quello autorizzato da FDA è da seguire con attenzione. Gli anticorpi iniettati su pazienti gravi o terminali potrebbero fornire indicazioni interessanti.

Una cosa è starsene seduti davanti al televisore ad ascoltare le parole gravi ma al tempo stesso rassicuranti del proprio governatore. Altro è prendere consapevolezza del fatto che il fermo dell'economia avrà ripercussioni ancora più gravi nel medio e lungo periodo.
I governatori italiani, dopo aver giocato a fare i bulli con il presidente Conte, dovranno assumersi nuova responsabilità.
Lo stesso dovrà fare il governatore Cuomo che, a fronte della pochezza dei candidati democratici (chi si ritirerà per primo ?), deve stendere un piano dettagliato migliore di quello declinato davanti al fratello.
Se vuole pensare e agire in grande, deve anche cercare di riconfigurare l'atteggiamento accentratore e cercare collaborazioni al di fuori della cerchia che lo segue e sostiene da decenni.