New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has followed Michigan, Chicago and California in announcing plans to ease COVID restrictions, prompting many conservatives to allege that the timing is political.

The Governor said in a press conference that the situation in relation to new cases and hospitalizations was improving, meaning lockdown measures could be relaxed soon.

“Cuomo didn’t give further details on what type of restrictions he might loosen or what cluster zones might be eliminated or changed,” reports Syracuse.com. “The state Health Department is reviewing data on the zones now and Cuomo said expects to have announcements in the coming days.”

Respondents to the story said the move was politically timed to help Joe Biden ultimately claim victory over COVID.

“Yep. Right on cue after Trump is out of office!” remarked one.

In Buffalo holding a COVID briefing. Watch live: https://t.co/J50To0kTv9

— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) January 25, 2021

“Now they will reduce the unreported replication factor for the COVID test, and presto – no more COVID,” said another.

“Amazing how it all disappeared a week after Trump’s gone,” added another.

As we highlighted earlier, California Governor Gavin Newsom is also set to lift the stay-at-home order across all regions tomorrow based on data that’s not publicly available.

“Michigan, Chicago, now California. It’s almost as if the “science” changed, once Biden became president? How convenient for Whitmer, Lightfoot, and Newsom?” tweeted Steve Cortes.

“Using small businesses, churches, schools, and citizens as pawns in a crass political game is evil,” he added.

Michigan, Chicago, now California.

It's almost as if the "science" changed, once Biden became president? How convenient for Whitmer, Lightfoot, and Newsom?

Using small businesses, churches, schools, and citizens as pawns in a crass political game is evil. https://t.co/mgQ30pIMX8

— Steve Cortes (@CortesSteve) January 25, 2021

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California Governor Gavin Newsom is set to lift the stay-at-home order across all regions tomorrow based on data that’s not publicly available, leading some to accuse him of playing politics.

“Multiple sources tell me Governor Newsom will lift the stay at home order on all regions in California tomorrow,” tweeted journalist Ashley Zavala. “All counties will go back to the tier system, sources say. Most will return to the purple tier— allowing the reopening of outdoor dining, indoor salons.”

She added that the decision to open up was “based off ICU projections for the next four weeks statewide,” but that the data is “not publicly accessible.”

This is apparently based off ICU projections for the next four weeks statewide, sources say.

Those projections are not publicly accessible.

— Ashley Zavala (@ZavalaA) January 25, 2021

Although COVID-19 cases in California have been falling in recent days, on January 21st the state recorded its highest daily death toll ever, registering 740 fatalities.

Given the timing of the decision, coming less than a week after Joe Biden’s inauguration, many respondents argued that Newsom had deliberately delayed opening up so as not to help Donald Trump, who was an opponent of lockdowns throughout the final months of his presidency.

“So obvious that the left used all of this as a ploy to win the election. Miraculously everything is fine 5 days after the inauguration. Don’t want old Joe looking bad do they?” commented one Twitter user.

“Covid is suddenly going away,” remarked another.

“So, everything is now just fine, not because of the numbers (they had their highest death count EVER just 3 days ago), but clearly because of a change in national administration makes making everybody scared and economically destroyed is no longer desired,” added another.

Others said that ICU capacity in many areas was still dangerously low and that Newsom had jumped the gun in making the call.

Back in November, Newsom was slammed for attending a dinner at an upmarket French restaurant while failing to follow his own COVID-19 protocols.

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British MPs within his own party are demanding that Prime Minister Boris Johnson outline some sort of exit strategy for the nationwide lockdown in the country, with one senior minister warning that if he doesn’t people will begin to “rise up and bring it down”.

Speaking to Talk Radio, Sir Desmond Swayne, the MP for New Forest West, warned that the “goalposts keep moving” on the lockdown timeframe, and “We have to focus on hospital admissions and keep that focus rigorous…[or] at some stage people have got to rise up and bring it down.”

"People have to got to rise up and bring it down!"

Tory MP Sir Desmond Swayne says the idea people will accept endless lockdown restrictions and "go on living like troglodytes is absurd."

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— talkRADIO (@talkRADIO) January 22, 2021

Swayne’s comments echo those of West Midlands Police commissioner David Jamieson, who warned back in October at the start of the second lockdown that “We’re sitting on a time bomb here.”

“We’re getting very near the stage where you could see a considerable explosion of frustration and energy,” Jamieson noted, adding “Things are very on the edge in a lot of communities and it wouldn’t take very much to spark off unrest, riots, damage.”

Boris Johnson has repeatedly said that it is ‘too early’ to say when restrictions will be lifted, while suggestions for easing the lockdown by other government figures keep moving to later and later in the year, with the Summer or beyond now being touted as a possible timeframe.

Seventy Conservative MPs have formed a coalition urging the government to start lifting the lockdown no later than early March .

MP Mark Harper, who is leading the coalition dubbed the ‘Covid Recovery Group’ said “People must see light at the end of the tunnel and feel hope for the future and businesses need to be able to plan our recovery.”

Meanwhile, Environment Secretary George Eustice has warned that even more ‘draconian’ restrictions may be introduced if people don’t obey the current ‘rules’.

“Generally, with this whole pandemic, we’ve had to take some quite extraordinary steps, very draconian steps, that are a big infringement on people’s liberty,” Eustice said.

“And yes, that does mean that we have to intervene in quite a draconian way and issue penalties, and we make no apology for doing that,” he continued, adding the further measures are “under review.” 

As we have highlighted, at the behest of the government, police are using increasingly hardline measures to enforce the lockdown, including demanding powers to break into people’s homes, and issue ever increasing fines to anyone found flouting restrictions.

While all of this is going on, medical experts, scientists and researchers all over the globe are urging that lockdowns do not work in halting the spread of the virus, and will have long lasting consequences that far outstrip the damage being done by the disease itself.