Posted on April 30, 2020 by Julia Craven in Slate Slate, By Julia Craven New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo began his April 28 press conference stressing that, in order to expertly navigate the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, people needed to distance themselves from their emotions. “Separate the emotion from the logic,” he said before adding: “Don’t be emotional, don’t be political.” Half an hour later, Cuomo was holding up the front page of the New York Daily News with a photo of a homeless person and their belongings filling the width of a subway car and the headline “NEXT STOP, PURGATORY.”
