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 HOW TO REACH US 
 COURIER L 6     IFE, OCT. 9-15, 2020 
 ‘WE DESERVE  
 Confusion as Cuomo, de Blasio scramble  
 BY AIDAN GRAHAM & 
 ROBERT POZARYCKI 
 Schools and non-essential  
 business have  closed  in  large  
 swaths of central and southern  
 Brooklyn after a substantial  
 uptick in coronavirus cases  
 sent  elected  offi cials  scrambling  
 for a response plan —  
 and locals searching for clarity  
 amid the confusion.  
 “We need to address this  
 rigorously and quickly, and  
 the faster we address it all together, 
  the faster we can stop  
 this problem and get back on  
 the right track,” Mayor Bill de  
 Blasio  said  at  an Oct.  7  press  
 conference. “I’m not here to  
 tell you it’ll be easy. It will  
 take hard work and discipline.  
 And,  certainly,  there  will  be  
 sacrifi ce.” 
 The chaotic series of proclamations  
 began when Mayor  
 Bill de Blasio announced public  
 and private school closures  
 that were set to begin on Oct.  
 7 in six Brooklyn ZIP codes  
 — 11219, 11223, 11230, 11204,  
 11210, 11229.  
 Along with closing educational  
 institutions,  de  Blasio  
 planned to shutter non-essential  
 businesses  in  those  ZIP  
 codes,  which  were  singled  
 out because they had seen an  
 above-three percent positivity  
 rate of COVID-19 tests for over  
 seven consecutive days.  
 Those plans were later  
 one-upped when Gov. Andrew  
 Cuomo mandated that the  
 schools in question would be  
 The governor’s map showing three color-coded areas for slated for various levels of lockdown.  Gov Andrew Cuomo’s Offi ce 
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