Cuomo: How do we come back smarter after coronavirus? - syracuse.com

Albany, N.Y. — Society should use the coronavirus pandemic as a chance to solve problems that for years have seemed too difficult to overcome, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said today.

Areas stressed during the pandemic, including the public health and emergency response systems, should get attention. But we should also confront challenges like climate change and income inequality.

Those issues have been pushed aside for years because the politics are too hard or the solutions too controversial, Cuomo said.

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"Now you have an opportunity in this window to really make changes and reforms and improve things in a way you haven't," he said. "This has to be one of those moments in time when we look back where we say society transformed.

"If you went through this and you went through this pain and aggravation and suffering and you didn't learn? Well then shame on us."

Cuomo noted that security around transportation, public spaces and more all changed after the Sept. 11 attacks. He said New York City didn't just rebuild the exact same things after Hurricane Sandy. They were made more resilient.

Whatever comes after the pandemic has to be better than what was here before, he said.

"We have to do that here," he said. "And we have to do it affirmatively. It doesn't just happen. How do we take this moment and come back smarter?"

The lessons should even extend to our personal relationships, Cuomo said. Before the virus hit, he said his interactions with his daughters had turned largely superficial.

And he said he blew off too many coffee dates with his mom.

“It made me rethink what was important and what I had been missing and I’d been missing a lot,” he said. “I’m not going to let that happen again.”

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