[ April 26, 2024 ]
Big bird strikes again. New Yorkers elected him Twice. They deserve it.
REPORT: NYC Short On Coronavirus Supplies Because Bill De Blasio Delayed First Order
By DailyWire.com, March 23, 2020:
New York City is desperate for coronavirus supplies, but it may because Mayor Bill de Blasio failed to heed warnings and stock up on supplies and not because the Federal government has been slow to send materials to areas heavily affected by coronavirus.
Story continues below advertisementDe Blasio laid into President Donald Trump Monday morning on CNN, excoriating the Federal government for failing to declare a national emergency and assume of medical device production.
“If we don’t get ventilators this week, we’re going to start losing lives we could have saved,” de Blasio warned on CNN’s “New Day.” “If we don’t get a supply of ventilators quickly, literally after a week, we won’t have enough ventilators to keep people alive.”
De Blasio also appeared on a radio program, where he complained about the Trump Administration, telling hosts he was still waiting for an answer on when ventilators and masks would be made available for New York City hospitals and blaming President Donald Trump for causing a life-threatening supply delay.
But the New York Post reported Monday that Bill de Blasio, who was reticent to believe that the coronavirus would prove a difficult problem for New Yorkers, that failed to place a supply order on time, leaving New York City’s healthcare workers dangerously short.
“Mayor Bill de Blasio has blamed President Trump for the city’s severe shortage of COVID-19 supplies even though City Hall didn’t secure its first order for emergency protective gear until March 6,” the outlet reported. “Officials with the city’s Office of Emergency Management tried to purchase nearly 200,000 n95 masks on Feb. 7, but weeks later they learned the vendors had already run out.”
“It was not until March 6 and March 10 — over two months after the coronavirus outbreak first hit China — that they finally secured the first emergency procurements of masks and hand sanitizer, according to the city comptroller’s office,” the Post continued.
When the orders were finally placed, NYC’s Department of Citywide Administrative Services, held up purchases with “bureaucratic red tape” and failed to complete payments, resulting in delays, per the Post’s investigation.
New York City authorities seem to believe that supplies are now on their way, though fulfillment times “vary significantly:” “Since the outbreak, the city has ordered 25 million masks, 2 million bottles of sanitizer, 12,000 thermometers and 2,000 ventilators.” The city, de Blasio said Monday, “3 million more N95 masks, 50 million more surgical masks, 15,000 ventilators and 45 million surgical gowns, coveralls, gloves and face shields.”
New York is largely considered the epicenter of the United States’ battle with the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. The state has 20,875 cases of coronavirus. New York City alone has 12,305. Around 160 people have died from the disease.
Bill de Blasio has been slow to lead efforts to address the pandemic. As of last Monday, de Blasio was reportedly still dithering on whether to close schools and shutter businesses, even though other states were taking drastic measures and his own staff was so frustrated with his lack of attention that some even threatened to quit. Monday morning, de Blasio defied Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines, taking one last opportunity to work out at his preferred Brooklyn YMCA.
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18 Comments
4 years ago
This is how the USA will look in the coming weeks. As more people recover [green line], the number of infected people decreases [yellow line]. The recovered people are immune to the disease, so they squelch the infection rates among the people around them. So the number of new infections tapers off [purple line].
4 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
As of 10:00 p.m, Korea time, 03/25/2020: Reported Deaths, in Korea, from the Chinese virus 126. They have day cruise ferry accidents that kill more.
Just an aside, Democracy Rules. You are highly informed a large number of subjects. I have trouble remembering if I brushed my teeth. I really don’t know how you do it. But, to that I would like to add, if I may … For news/reporting on either Japan or South Korea, The “Asia Times” is a laughing stock over there. We used to ask if their reporters/writers were on ‘shrooms, buttons, or both.
4 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
Hi Ach, you have heard of Radio Free Europe, a USA funded project. Asia Times is the same, it is funded by the USA gov. I find Asia Times informative for some things.
4 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
Well, we used to laugh our a-ses off at it. Remember, the same government that is funding the Asia Times, has led the cowardly sheep, of this nation, to a disaster. A nation of cowardly sheep following cowardly sheep. Toss in blithering idiots, as well.
4 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
Yes, all true. I referenced the article about why S. Korea has done well with Covid-19, because it was all I could find on that subject. This quote is useful:
“Viral pneumonia, even when complicated by bacterial pneumonia and end-organ failure, is potentially surmountable,” Ogan Gurel, a non-practicing doctor currently working as a professor in South Korea, told Asia Times. “You just need advanced medical care – and some oxygen.”
– he is right, even some very sick Covid-19 patients will recover.
4 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
Hi Ach, Correction: Asia Times is NOT USA funded. I confused it with Radio Free Asia https://www.rfa.org/english/ that is USA funded.
4 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
Either way, it doesn’t make their reporting any more inaccurate/lies.
4 years ago
DeBlazio is just another dumb Communist that hates people.
Yes, he did say that!
4 years ago
DeBlazio only cares about himself. He ran for President knowing he couldn’t win. Even his staff was laughing at his Presidential attempt. So why did he run? Attention and hoping to fool others into funding him. Money not used in his failed run, he is legally able to keep! He is a greedy one…
4 years ago
If DeBlazio had ANY intelligence, he’d consider this:
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
And your “piss poor planning doesn’t constitute an emergency on my part” is a good answer when the morons scram for help.
4 years ago
Thank you, Pamela, for exposing that idiot!!! Incredible and yet he had the audacity to blame the federal government
4 years ago
Well… it was the massive lying idiot Trumpo and his lousy Task Force who said…
1) Everything is under control
2) Americans are at Low Risk
3) Americans don’t need masks
4) This will disappear… like a miracle
Nothing worse than State governments listening to the massive liar idiot Trumpo…
4 years ago
Reply to
sumsrent
Trump was talking about Patriotic Americans and always is. He was not talking about Newyork leftists who live in ” the City of Socialist Self destruction” formerly known as New York – they should move back to America if they don’t like what they made with their liberalism.
4 years ago
Reply to
1PierreMontagne1
Right… we’ve witnessed how the idiot Trumpo was more worried about numbers than American lives…
And… we’re witnessing how the idiot Trumpo is making bailouts for large corporations… while the masses are focused on the Dems pork…
Now get this… >>> NO BAILOUTS!!!
4 years ago
The libturds always blaming someone else for your failures!!!!
4 years ago
Millions upon millions of packaged emegency supplies – next Deblasio wil be demanding Trnmp build NY a place to store the supplies
4 years ago
jerry brown (CA) hit financial trouble and sold off the stockpile of PPE that Schwarzenegger had built up…
