In this city, building facades and elevators are inspected in large buildings every five years. Boilers are inspected every three years. When facades are repaired street sheds must be built to protect pedestrians. Yes, this raises the costs of living and working in New York. Florida is a far less regulated state and it’s a lot cheaper to live there. New York City is struggling to regain lost population while Florida is growing. In New York, we have learned the hard way to do whatever it takes to eliminate avoidable tragedies. From 9-11 to Hurricane Sandy, we learned that some tragedies are beyond our control. But after Hurricane Sandy we waterproofed our tunnels, reinforced our energy system, and moved critical building systems out of basements along our shoreline. After 9-11, we grew the NYPD’s anti-terror force to about one thousand people. You do what it takes to keep people as safe as possible. That is the irreducible, fundamental function of government. No one likes to pay for public safety, but civilization requires it.
在这个城市，大型建筑的外墙和电梯每五年检查一次。锅炉每三年检查一次。当外墙被修复时，必须建造街棚以保护行人。是的，这提高了在纽约生活和工作的成本。佛罗里达州是一个监管较少的州，在那里生活要便宜得多。纽约市正在努力挽回失去的人口，而佛罗里达州正在增长。在纽约，我们已经深刻地认识到，要不惜一切代价来消除可避免的悲剧。从9-11事件到桑迪飓风，我们了解到，有些悲剧是我们无法控制的。但在桑迪飓风之后，我们对隧道进行了防水处理，加强了我们的能源系统，并将关键的建筑系统从我们海岸线上的地下室移出。9-11之后，我们将纽约市警察局的反恐部队扩大到约一千人。你做的事情是尽可能地保证人们的安全。这是政府不可复制的基本职能。没有人喜欢为公共安全付费，但文明需要它。
Miami floods whenever the tides are higher than normal. But taxes are low in Florida. Population density is also low and when New York City was being slammed with COVID, Floridians couldn’t understand why we were so willing to give up our freedom of movement and commerce. Florida never shut down and their infection rate seemed lower than New York’s. Their governor won’t allow businesses to require vaccination and he had very little interest in masks and social distancing. To his followers, New Yorkers are simply alarmists and Florida is the land of the free and the home of the brave. Perhaps, but New Yorkers were reacting to the facts in front of us.
每当潮汐高于正常水平时，迈阿密就会发生洪水。但佛罗里达州的税收很低。人口密度也很低，当纽约市被COVID抨击时，佛罗里达人无法理解为什么我们如此愿意放弃我们的行动和商业自由。佛罗里达州从未停业，他们的感染率似乎比纽约的低。他们的州长不允许企业要求接种疫苗，他对口罩和社会疏远的兴趣很小。在他的追随者看来，纽约人只是危言耸听，而佛罗里达是自由的土地和勇敢者的家园。也许，但纽约人是在对我们面前的事实做出反应。
We had a rough year, but the Boss is back on Broadway, and Macy’s July 4th fireworks were able to return because New York’s public is 70% vaccinated, and through massive effort, we drove down the rate of infection and death. Still, COVID hit New York City hard and first, sadly before doctors learned how to treat it. As a result, our death rate was 276 people per 100,000 of population. In Florida, the death rate has been 176 per 100,000. Perhaps we had a reason to be alarmed, and perhaps Florida’s approach to COVID was appropriate to their environment. Science is not the only guide to public policy, but willfully ignoring scientific fact can and does lead to avoidable deaths.
我们经历了艰难的一年，但 "老板 "回到了百老汇，梅西百货的7月4日烟花也得以回归，因为纽约的公众有70%接种了疫苗，通过大量努力，我们降低了感染率和死亡率。然而，COVID还是首先重创了纽约市，可悲的是在医生学会如何治疗之前。结果，我们的死亡率为每10万人口276人。在佛罗里达州，死亡率为每10万人176人。也许我们有理由感到震惊，也许佛罗里达州处理COVID的方法适合他们的环境。科学不是公共政策的唯一指南，但故意忽视科学事实可以而且确实导致了可避免的死亡。
