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– Quincy Massachusetts News from Quincy Quarry News with commentary added.
Obviously the mayor did not see him
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Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch inexplicably proclaims that Quincy’s new Red Zone COVID-19 rating is not so bad.
In Mayor Koch’s apparently first public statement about Quincy flipping into COVID-19 Code Red risk last Thursday, the mayor gobsmackingly downplayed things.
In fact, he failed to specifically note the fact that Quincy just crossed over into COVID-19 Red Zone status on Thursday per the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
Additionally, Mayor Koch asserted that Quincy was not doing all that bad even though Quincy was among ranked among roughly half of the communities in the commonwealth that have been hit with Code Red COVID-19 risk status whereas conversely the Quincy-adjacent communities of Boston, Braintree, and Milton continue to only have COVID-19 Yellow Zone risk ratings.
Drink the Koch-Aid!
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Then after shoveling the above bovine byproduct, Mayor Quincy Tom Koch then shifted to allocating over two-thirds of his nearly five minutes long latest YouTube COVID-19 update to instead advise locals of the impending Nor’easter, announce a snow emergency parking ban given the storm as well as why it is necessary, and that regularly scheduled Thursday trash pick-ups, would be delayed until Friday with regular Friday pick-ups delayed until Saturday.
In short, the mayor did the typical politician slip and slide about a sorely troubling matter by moving onto something else.
So apparently Mayor Koch thinks the rate of infection in Quincy is just part of some sort of coronavirus pissing contest? There are higher and lower infection rates in all the cities and towns in Massachusetts, that’s just a fact. To say that Quincy is now in the Red Zone — but it isn’t as bad as some other places, is a clueless perception, it misses the point entirely.
Asterisk: While Quincy Quarry has long suspected that Mayor Koch is innumerate, in this instance the Quarry views the mayor’s unarguably bogus comments in this instance as spin rather than an inability to count past 10 without taking off his shoes or dropping his fly.