Changed 262 laws in only 55 days?

[Clipper]

www.newyorkupstate.com/coronavirus/2020/05/cuomo-changed-262-ny-laws-in-55-days-of-coronavirus-crisis.html?utm_campaign=nyup_sf&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR2fubjS0_ynXxEX-k0mU8_6AeaANbgGbv3if4kurxbtUoxVasWaCuXUI6o

I don't see enough news from NY to know for sure, but has he overstepped his authority, and isn't this a bit of overkill in some cases? It is hard to know the actual impact of the changes while looking at it from afar. Many say that he has handled the state's response to the virus very well. It is just the large number that is a bit unnerving when a person is not able to get an up close and real look at the impact of those decisions and actions. What do the majority of upstate New Yorkers think. It looks like upstate was affected adversely by decisions and orders made in a panic over the devastation taking place downstate and in the city.

I don't know how the law works. 262 laws is a large number. Does he have to go back and rescind each of these executive orders or do the laws remain changed permanently going forward.

[Ralph]

   I think that when this is all over there is going to be a lot of chickens coming home to roost, and not all of them will be happy.
Maybe you can quell the problems in NYC with an iron fist, but that's not the way it flies up here.   All of us are a bit tired of that approach.

[clarencebunsen]

Reading the article, it is unclear to me. It says the Legislature gave Cuomo boundless ability to issue any directive necessary to cope with the epidemic. What the legislature can do is pass laws and it doesn't reference any particular law. If the legislature did pass such a law and it was signed by the governor, it is in effect until it is successfully challenged in court.

[clarencebunsen]

Oneida County meets 7 of the 9 criteria to begin re-opening. Our biggest failure is we are lowest in the state in the number of people who have installed tracking apps. I am one of those who have not. I know I am being tracked both on-line and by my phone. I am not really paranoid about it but I haven't been real crazy about giving more permission for several levels of government to track my movements and link that to any other phone which came within blue tooth range of mine. I suppose I could download it and turn blue tooth off except when I need it. Our I could wrap in in aluminum foil before putting it in my pocket. LOL.

[Clipper]

I suppose that even as invasive as it seems to have such an app on your phone, it could be a double edged sword. I assume that if you are tagged as being in close proximity to another cell phone, and THAT person tests positive for the virus, the state would notify you and quarantine you for the two weeks. That would probably be advantageous to you as well as anyone that YOU might come in contact with.

I am not 100% happy with the way Tennessee has reopened. We went from dead stop to full throttle. People are not all observing the social distancing, and in many cases the stores are packed and crowded. I wanted to go to Lowes the other day for bagged bark mulch. I figured I could park by the garden center, just venture inside the gate to the little cashier booth, pay for the mulch and pull around the side of the building to have them load it. How wrong I was. The parking lot was so full that I actually would have had to cruise the lot to find a space, and the traffic in and out of the garden center was ridiculous. I fear that the pandemic will explode again if people don't get their heads out of their asses and at least make a minimal effort to avoid crowds, and socially distance in order to protect ME as well as themselves.