Cuomo says coronavirus will ‘transform’ society like 9/11 did

Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared Friday that the coronavirus pandemic will forever change the world in the same way that the 9/11 terror attacks did.

“This has to be one of those moments in time when we look back where we say society transformed,” Cuomo said during his daily Albany press briefing.

The governor made a comparison to the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, saying, “9/11 transformed the country.”

“9/11, New York took a terrible beating, this nation took a terrible beating. We learned from it. We grew. We’re better,” Cuomo said.

“If I told you before 9/11, you were going to take off your shoes when you went to an airport before you could get on an airplane and they were going to go through every bag, you would say, ‘I’m never doing that,’” said Cuomo, adding, “9/11 said, ‘This is a different world.’ Look at all the security measures post-9/11 that we would have never envisioned.”

Cuomo also pointed to 2012’s deadly Hurricane Sandy that walloped the Northeast and wreaked havoc on New York City.

“We went through Hurricane Sandy. We didn’t build back what was there, you build back better than before,” Cuomo said.

The governor continued, “You take that moment, you learn that lesson and you improve society — and you have to do that here” with the coronavirus crisis.