NY Governor Andrew Cuomo's unique press conferences

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"I live alone, I'm even getting annoyed with the dog." New York governor Andrew Cuomo's pressers on the coronavirus crisis have taken an interesting turn...

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00:00Cut the red tape, cut the bureaucracy, just cut to the chase.

00:06This should not be the usual sausage making of pork barrel, right?

00:12My congressional delegation is largely Democrat.

00:15So political custom would be, well, don't pressure another Democratic elected official.

00:23I say that is baloney.

00:25I was in New York City yesterday.

00:27It was a pretty day.

00:29There is a density level in New York City that is wholly inappropriate.

00:38You would think there was nothing going on.

00:40This is just a mistake.

00:43It's a mistake.

00:45We all have to now confront that that is a new reality.

00:50That is not going to change.

00:52You're not going to turn on the news tomorrow morning and they're going to say,

00:55surprise, surprise, this is all now resolved in two weeks.

00:59You want to go for a walk?

01:00God bless you.

01:01You want to go for a run?

01:02God bless you.

01:04But let's open streets.

01:06Let's open space.

01:08That's where people should be, in open space areas.

01:12I play basketball.

01:13There is no concept of social distancing while playing basketball.

01:18It doesn't exist.

01:19You can't stay six feet away from a person playing basketball.

01:24You can, but then you're a lousy basketball player and you're going to lose.

01:27Personal advice, stay home, stay home, stay home.

01:30Whether you stay home, remember the old expression, cabin fever, right?

01:36You stay home alone, you don't want to be isolated emotionally.

01:42If you're not alone and you're in the house with the family

01:49and the kids and everybody's together, that's a different set of emotional complexities.

01:56I remember when the kids were young, what it was like.

01:59It was pure joy.

02:01But I remember what it was like to be with them for multiple hours.

02:06You know, it's complicated.

02:08I live alone.

02:10I'm even getting annoyed with the dog.

02:12The timeline, nobody can tell you.

02:14It depends on how we handle it.

02:16Nobody has a crystal ball.

02:18Nobody can tell you.

02:19Well, I want to know.

02:20I want to know.

02:21I need to know.

02:22Nobody can tell you.

02:22It is going to be okay.

02:25Life is going to go on.

02:28We all talk about being a community.

02:30We're a community.

02:32What does a community mean?

02:34We're interconnected.

02:35We're interdependent.

02:37I rely on you.

02:38You rely on me.

02:39That's community.

02:41That's us at our best, the community of New York.

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