Not everyone is going to take the same precautions and that's okay. Whatever they are comfortable with/their risk. It's a chance someone is taking.
Cuomo is talking about people who are not working/essential workers/out there every day - taking mass transit, busses, etc.
There are many of us at home. Picking up RX. Grocery store here is every two weeks. I have only gone with my husband twice since mid March and we split up. He does produce and meat and I hit the rest of the aisles/stores. Last week we did go to Home Depot at 6 am. No doctor appointments, no transportation - have our own cars - we are not in the "city". We go out for walks once or twice a day weather permitting. With a mask around our neck. We don't need one where we walk. We see someone, we go in the street, go across the street, etc. We go early enough and we are not in the "city".
We talk to the neighbors but are more than 6 feet apart. We have passed by the kids and stayed for 20-30 minutes outside - keeping our distance. We wipe down with lysol wipes, wash fruits and most of the vegetables, counter, etc. as soon as we get home. Gloves, masks. We have gone to the bank drive-through once and once inside the bank - with gloves/masks. Not everyone I know goes to the same extremes. I have a neighbor who for a while went to the store with no gloves or masks. Of course since recently he has been required to wear one but won't wear gloves. He says when he gets it, he gets it.
It's hard to do 100% no matter how much ones tries. We are at risk every time we step out of our home.
Now this week, we have been out there a bit more. I had to pick up a prescription at the doctor's office (mask on of course). I will be going to Quest soon. My husband gave in and went to the chiropractor last week. My dil will be going back to work in the doctor's office middle of the month - I will start babysitting my grandson. I plan on re-scheduling my April cancelled appt. on 5/18. Not sure when I will get in, but I am making one. I think people could be slacking off, not taking extreme/same precautions when they started, became exposed to someone in their family that is an essential worker, etc.
Who knows. Some people who got it might not have been honest telling their doctors/hospitals where they were/what they were doing.
I don't believe and don't know what to believe anymore - I have heard we will get sick as soon as we go out if we have been living in a bubble the last three months.
I have heard and read that many cases that were "probable" COVID - are marked as COVID on death certificates and that Medicare pays out $13,000 vs. $3,000 and $39,000 if on ventilator.
Same with they don't know if we are immune to it if we get it, wear a mask, don't wear a mask, they don't know how long it survives on a surfaces, etc. etc. In the end, what is my level of being comfortable and risk level.
I definitely do not listen to the news as much as I did - I am trying to limit it to a few minutes early and later on the day. Not much on FB.
One last thing, I have started to mark my calendar on places I go to and if I saw anyone - if one of us gets sick, I know exactly where I went, who I/we came into some sort of contact with. It's not that often I have a notation on my calendar but doing it anyway.