http://nypost.com/2014/10/25/de-blasio-not-consulted-before-cuomos-mandatory-ebola-quarantine/
With the diagnosis of Ebola on a New York City resident, governor Andrew Cuomo released new regulations to quarantine travelers who have had contact with Ebola patients in West Africa. Governor Cuomo did not inform our city's mayor Bill DeBlasio with the excuse saying it "wasn’t city specific. It was every city in New York, every city in New Jersey. And it’s an airport protocol." Mayor DeBlasio believed that he should have been informed saying ‘“This is not about feelings. This is not about personalities. This is a crisis in which we all have to hang together to protect our people…We understand in a fast moving situation that sometimes there will be moments where the communication is not everything we want it to be.”’ When asked if he supported this policy, he brushed it off.
Although I do believe that Cuomo should have informed DeBlasio about these new regulations, I do think that it is a good idea to quarantine these travelers. The only way the state will remain safe is if the mayors of each city and the Governor work together to come up with a plan.
ReplyDeleteI do think that Governor Andrew Cuomo should have informed Mayor Bill DeBlasio, but I do not think that this is such a big issue that he did not. I think this because he is the Governor of New York state and he has the ability to do whatever he feels is necessary at that time, and he has the power to enforce his judgement without informing the mayors because he has more power than them.
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