De Blasio blames Trump for NYC hospital
equipment shortage: ‘People will die’
by
Mark Moore
&
Lee Brown
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
3/22/2020 11:18:31 AM
Mayor Bill de Blasio on Sunday warned that Big Apple hospitals are just 10 days away from running out of essential equipment to save lives from the novel coronavirus. “If we don’t get more ventilators in the next 10 days, people will die who don’t have to die. It’s as simple as that,” de Blasio told Wolf Blitzer on CNN’s “The Situation Room.” “Bluntly, Wolf, I think we’re about 10 days away now from seeing widespread shortages of really fundamental supplies—ventilators, surgical masks—the things that absolutely are necessary to keep a hospital running,” he said. “They will not be able to function
Reply 1 - Posted by:
planetgeo 3/22/2020 11:22:33 AM (No. 354118)
YOU are the Mayor of NYC, not Trump. Why haven't YOU taken care of these shortages?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
LadyHen 3/22/2020 11:24:48 AM (No. 354122)
Lazy do nothing Bill de Blasio deflecting blame for his inadequate and delayed response. Just Democrat business as usual.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
earlybird 3/22/2020 11:25:38 AM (No. 354126)
Oh, stop it. Are you on the Cuomo for President team, to…or are you angling to cut Cuomo off at the pass? Stuff going on in NY, and it’s not just coronovirus.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DARling 3/22/2020 11:31:40 AM (No. 354132)
I guess running all of the wealthy taxpayers out of NYC didn't work so well, Mayor de Blah Blah. It is not the job of the federal government to control your poor response to a crisis. But we know Trump will have to come in and clean up your mess.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
MainelySane 3/22/2020 11:34:13 AM (No. 354136)
Blame the Centers for Disease Control.... this was their responsibility. We pay them handsomely to foresee epidemics and supply issues. They give themselves bonuses for showing up for work... and then blame the Congress or the President when their laziness, incompetence, and lack of seriousness is revealed to the whole nation.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Northcross 3/22/2020 11:38:49 AM (No. 354143)
Hey Warren, or whatever your name is, how are you managing the school buses?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Norway 3/22/2020 11:45:18 AM (No. 354153)
Mayor Nagin of New Orleans 2.0
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
brother ram 3/22/2020 11:46:24 AM (No. 354154)
Hey Warren, if you know so damn much why don't you run for President? Oh, never mind.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Sandbar 3/22/2020 11:51:32 AM (No. 354162)
Companies all over are asking what they can do and doing what they can. The commie mayor screams, nationalize, nationalize.
If we tell the private sector what is needed, coordinate their efforts as best we can, make supplies available to them and then get the he!! out of their way, they will get it done.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 3/22/2020 11:52:44 AM (No. 354163)
Blasie, well aren't you special. Go talk to Fredo. Since you can't handle anything, maybe he can help you.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Lazyman 3/22/2020 11:53:34 AM (No. 354165)
It's all fun and games electing a moron to be your mayor until your life depends on him.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Shells 3/22/2020 11:56:11 AM (No. 354167)
Clearly Wilhelm didn’t read ‘Mayoring For Dummies’ after he was elected.
Specifically, the chapter titled, ‘You Have To Do Stuff, You’re In Charge.’
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 3/22/2020 11:59:03 AM (No. 354169)
Cuomo, Newscum and DiBlasio have been too busy spending revenue they steal from the residents on their pet social programs to do any actual preventative action. So we are watching them whine and carry on about how the Feds are failing them. Not the Feds fault you blue state morons are being exposed as the failures that you truly are. Elections have consequences, and that is what we are seeing right now. Social spending running amok, and intelligent commonsense falling by the wayside.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
GO3 3/22/2020 12:13:01 PM (No. 354190)
This is absolutely a revenue/spending issue on the part of the city and medical facilities. This is akin to the gun control crowd years ago crying about police departments being outgunned when the cities refused to buy weapons the departments needed. There was also a time when police had to buy their own body armor. Outfits like Second Chance stepped up to the plate years ago to make a full line of body armor available to pcops, but they still had to pay. Others are right, pathetic pols and city councils pass the buck up the chain because of their own malfeasance and stupidity.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Gruntmedic 3/22/2020 12:34:19 PM (No. 354221)
Hospital equipment is a capital exspense, They have to budget for it.
Why are people outside of NYC supposed to buy their hospital s equipment?
The President told local people to get what they need and Feds would help with funds.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
paral04 3/22/2020 12:40:38 PM (No. 354227)
Doesn't he know how to fill pout a Purchase Order? He has had over two months to prepare for this. What has he done except let felons back on the streets.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
JackBurton 3/22/2020 1:00:16 PM (No. 354252)
Cuomo told reporters in Albany earlier Wednesday that Trump had agreed to dispatch U.S. Navy Hospital Ship Comfort to New York Harbor, a move to add hundreds of additional hospital beds in the Empire State, which has the most coronavirus cases of any U.S. state.
Wilkie told host Martha MacCallum that he oversaw the operation of the Comfort in his prior role at the Pentagon. He called the ship a great American asset and added that Trump's actions are a tribute to his "commitment, not only to his hometown but ... what he calls the 'invisible enemy'."
https://www.foxnews.com/media/coronavirus-robert-wilkie-navy-hospital-ship-comfort
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
hershey 3/22/2020 1:09:02 PM (No. 354262)
The only reason he is saying 10 days is because that's all the toes he has....
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
bighambone 3/22/2020 1:28:08 PM (No. 354282)
Mayor de Blasio should be blaming Governor Cuomo, the next politician up the New York State political chain of command who has been dealing with President Trump on issues relating to the Chinese corona virus in New York and who this morning at his daily televised BS session started blaming President Trump. Obviously the plan now involving from the incompetent leftist and liberal Democrats is to gang up on President Trump and fraudulently blame him for the creation and spread of the virus.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Petronius 3/22/2020 1:44:23 PM (No. 354299)
People will die because DiBlasio is an idiot and a fool.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Brooks 3/22/2020 2:17:36 PM (No. 354328)
According to the American Hospital Directory, New York State has a total 57,261 hospital beds in all their fully equipped hospitals. As of today's Chinese Corona Virus accounting chart, New York State has 22,717 confirmed Chinese Corona Virus cases with 60 people in serious condition (presumably in the hospital). Are de Blasio and Cuomo just striving for face time to pound Trump?.......just asking.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 3/22/2020 2:18:18 PM (No. 354330)
The org chart is clear, FEMA is the lead agency, which means De Blasio needs to be working directly with his own governor and local officials.
Instead, he and many other Democrats are looking for any opportunity to blame Trump, whom they bashed in January when he closed air travel with China, remember.
How many of them who "resisted" and opposed every Trump nominee, ended up putting the United States in shortage of key people in key positions to be on top of things instead of departments possibly stretched too thin?
How about when Democrats were so busy with impeachment trials and hearings in January instead of taking the virus more seriously?
Democrats in the House holding up a relief package until after Super Tuesday (March 3) just so they could use it as a campaign issue - wasting precious weeks.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
DVC 3/22/2020 2:42:44 PM (No. 354351)
Gee, maybe the Mayor of NYC and the Governor of NY state might be the ACTUAL ones responsible for that. Idiots who have messed up whining because "the big guy" didn't "fix it" in advance. If Trump had even suggested ANYTHING a month ago, they would have fought it tooth and nail.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec 3/22/2020 3:09:46 PM (No. 354363)
@#5 - The CDC response will be as always - Well Congressman, if we only had more money to address these issues......
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
BigTimeTrumper 3/22/2020 3:54:15 PM (No. 354417)
These Swamp Rats just keep raising the red flags exposing themselves as rats demanding their own elimination...Trump you magnificent genius!...Just why we elected and WILL re-elect you!
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
bobn.t 3/22/2020 4:31:52 PM (No. 354454)
Pigeon poop now confirmed to carry and transmit corona virus.
Welcome to NY.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
tootall 3/23/2020 9:18:44 AM (No. 354945)
Curious minds need to research 'Certificate of Need'
State Governments authorize and control the purchase and placement of hospitals, medical devices, hospital beds, etc. Not all states...but many of them do. New York does! Cuomo is in charge of that. DiBla needs to talk to him!
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