[ May 2, 2024 ]
Cop-hate has been a consistent policy theme of the Vilhelm administration.
NYC health head rejected NYPD mask plea: ‘I don’t give two rats’ asses about your cops’
By Larry Celona, Julia Marsh and Bruce Golding, NY Post, May 13, 2020:
Story continues below advertisementNew York City’s health commissioner blew off an urgent NYPD request for 500,000 surgical masks as the coronavirus crisis mounted — telling a high-ranking police official that “I don’t give two rats’ asses about your cops,” The Post has learned.
Dr. Oxiris Barbot made the heartless remark during a brief phone conversation in late March with NYPD Chief of Department Terence Monahan, sources familiar with the matter said Wednesday.
Monahan asked Barbot for 500,000 masks but she said she could only provide 50,000, the sources said.
“I don’t give two rats’ asses about your cops,” Barbot said, according to sources.
“I need them for others.”
The conversation took place as increasing numbers of cops were calling out sick with symptoms of COVID-19 but before the department suffered its first casualties from the deadly respiratory disease, sources said.
Although surgical masks don’t necessarily prevent wearers from being infected with the coronavirus, they can prevent people from spreading it to others
The NYPD has recorded 5,490 cases of coronavirus among its 55,000 cops and civilian workers, with 41 deaths, according to figures released Wednesday evening.
Patrick Lynch, president of the Police Benevolent Association, called for Barbot to be fired over her “despicable and unforgivable” comments.
“Dr. Barbot should be forced to look in the eye of every police family who lost a hero to this virus. Look them in the eye and tell them they aren’t worth a rat’s ass,” Lynch fumed.
In the wake of Barbot’s crass rebuff of Monahan, NYPD officials learned that the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene had a large stash of masks, ventilators and other equipment stored in a New Jersey warehouse, sources said.
The department appealed to City Hall, which arranged for the NYPD to get 250,000 surgical masks, sources said.
The federal Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency also learned about the situation, leading FEMA to supply the NYPD with Tyvek suits and disinfectant, sources said.
A source who was present during a tabletop exercise at the city Office of Emergency Management headquarters in Brooklyn in March recalled witnessing a “very tense moment” when Monahan complained to Mayor Bill de Blasio in front of Barbot about the NYPD’s need for personal protective equipment, saying, “For weeks, we haven’t gotten an answer.”
De Blasio, who was seated between Monahan and Barbot, asked her, “Oxiris, what is he talking about?” the source said.
Oxiris Barbot cop-hate is the true heart of the de Blasio administration
By: NY Post, May 15, 2020:
A gaffe, the journalist Michael Kinsley once said, occurs not when a public figure says something false but when she says something she believes to be true. Thus it was with Oxiris Barbot, New York City’s health commissioner, and her utterly repugnant remark in March to a senior NYPD official about how she didn’t give “two rats’ asses about your cops.”
Barbot’s exchange with Chief of Department Terence Monahan exposes the nature of her own morally diseased ideology — a viral worldview that spreads social incohesion just when the Big Apple needs unity.
Imagine it: a public health official who doesn’t believe the city’s police officers require her attention in a pandemic when it comes to their health.
Barbot clearly feels no common cause with the 38,000 public servants who work for the New York Police Department — public servants who literally put their lives on the line every day to see to the safety of their fellow citizens. Far from it; judging by her hideous words, she likely considers them a kind of enemy.
And these are police officers who now take on the added risk of viral infection on top of the possibility of thugs who might shoot or knife or otherwise harm them in such a way that any day’s shift might be their last.
For his part, Monahan was just looking to protect the officers under him as well as the general public. He must have presumed this would be a concern Barbot would share. He asked her to supply his department with 500,000 masks — a grand total of about 13 per officer.
Whichever of the purposes masks are thought to serve during the pandemic, whether to protect the wearer or those with whom the wearer might come into contact, it should go without saying that cops, of all people, must have free access to them.
Police officers cannot “socially distance” by definition, either in their interactions with the populace or in relation to each other.
If a police officer were to contract the virus and remain asymptomatic for days, the number of people he could infect could stretch into the dozens, if not the hundreds.
Evidently, Barbot informed Monahan that she could only spare 50,000 masks. He must have reacted with disbelief, and the words that followed must then have triggered Barbot’s anger and raised from her peculiar brain to her potty mouth the disdain that emanated from her invocation of a pair of rodents and their posteriors.
The fact that Barbot felt free enough to say what she said — even if it happened because she lost her cool — also offers some instructive guidance about how she might have gotten the job she holds in our city in the first place.
The antagonism toward the police she expressed in her heated argument with Monahan isn’t a bug — no matter how far Mayor Damage de Controllio might find it necessary to socially distance himself from his own appointee in the wake of The Post’s story about Barbot’s offense.
No, it’s likely a feature.
The progressive culture from which de Blasio and his administration spring is anti-cop. It is drenched in the attitude that police officers are effectively carriers of disease themselves — social-spiritual diseases like hostility to “the other” and virulent racism. No matter how much Hizzoner tries to hide that mentality, it seeps out like ooze out of his administration.
Such is the perspective that informed Dr. Oxiris Barbot’s disgusting outburst and may lead to her dismissal. Should that happen, another health commissioner will be appointed — someone who will know not to make the same kind of gaffe.
But really, will it make any ultimate difference? In the de Blasio mayoralty, the fish rots from the head.
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30 Comments
3 years ago
Maybe she’s hoping she can replace the NYPD w/the Muslim Community Patrol — that way no one will dare criticise f’ing muslums, their fascist death cult or their holey pedophile prophet for profit and Latrine Spicatra will clap his soft little hands with delight.
3 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
Perfectly put Muham; both writing and sentiment.
Wanna really die? Ugly Ox is a-wait for it-PEDIATRICIAN. Can you imagine the horror of a poor child looking up and seeing that Gorgon hovering over him?
New York: Wake up and dislodge your heads from your asses. You can do it!
3 years ago
“…Barbot said this at a press conference supporting the Chinatown Lunar New Year Parade and Festival. “There is no reason not to take the subway, not to take a bus, not to go out to your favorite restaurant and certainly not to miss the parade next Sunday [Feb. 9].”- This scurrilous second rate administrator was worse than a hack… she was a pretentious fool. Now, she goes on to the P.D. heads and gives her runt mouthing to them like the punk progressive know nothing she really is. Like her boss, da mayor.
3 years ago
“…Barbot said this at a press conference supporting the Chinatown Lunar New Year Parade and Festival. “There is no reason not to take the subway, not to take a bus, not to go out to your favorite restaurant and certainly not to miss the parade next Sunday [Feb. 9].”- This scurrilous second rate administrator was worse than a hack… she was a pretentious fool. Now, she goes on to the P.D. heads and gives her runt mouthing to them like the punk progressive know nothing she really is. Like her boss, da mayor.
3 years ago
Too bad she didn’t say ‘Mooslime cops’ or ‘Black cops’ because then she would be roasting over a bonfire by now.
3 years ago
The police should discontinue giving that moron police protection then announce it to the public.
3 years ago
Try using firefox and enabling its ad blocking features. I’m not sure how much control Ms. Geller or her webmaster have over the paid ads they display, they may not know that some of them are designed to be a nuisance.
3 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
Hi Hussars, Here are my blocker tools, all add-ons to Firefox:
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You can’t hunt elephants with a pop-gun
And if Pamela loses revenue because I block ads here, I try to make up the value added with useful comments.
3 years ago
Why do people continue to live and work in NYC? It was a rats nest in the 60s and is far,far worse today. I could never understand why someone so unfortunate as to be born in NYC would not leave immediately he or she could get train fare.It must be masochism?
3 years ago
Reply to
John Acord
I myself could never quite understand why people pay a fortune for several rooms off a common elevator, for the privilege of being assaulted walking on the street or in a park.
And it’s gotten worse, now that the transit system and the public schools are unusable.
New York continues to decline, in large part because “elites” like Barbot despise the police as working- class “deplorables,” and believe the underclass requires their largess.
3 years ago
Reply to
Michael Garfinkel
You can either fight back, submit or leave.
I don’t mind if people fight back.
3 years ago
Have the Americans completely forgotten the custom of polite discourse especially in public? This coming from an elected official or an unelected one is quite disgraceful. Of course it is New York!
3 years ago
This seems like a case of HeSaid-SheSaid, but I don’t see what “HeSaid” anywhere. Lopsided reporting is suspicious. Regardless, Get the Officers some Vitamin C & D, the masks are killing them. New Yorkers are such morons. Breathe CO2 instead of oxygen and wonder why you’re getting sick and dying. 500 million viruses fit on the head of a needle, and they think a mask is going to save their weakened immune system. Natural Darwinian Eugenics at work here.
3 years ago
This is what happens when you elect a Communist emanating Fidel Castro.
The avergae voter in NYC has the brain of an amoeba.
3 years ago
NYPD members should sell out and GTFO of that communist hell-hole. Arizona’s Maricopa County is the fastest-growing county in the USA, so there are LE jobs available. Just make sure you leave NY habits behind.
3 years ago
NYC cops protecting illegal aliens from ICE.
NYC cops arresting American citizens for going to work, the barbershop , church etc I don’t give a rats ass about them either the NYPD can shove their flying drones where the corona doesn’t shine
3 years ago
They got what they voted for..
Perhaps if the cops put pressure on their unions not to support Dem candidates, they would get the right people in there and more support.
People have to get the notion out of their heads that the Dems are for the “little people and the workers”
3 years ago
A gaffe, somebody once said, is “the statement of the blindingly obvious by somebody famous.” In the UK, where I am, the “somebody famous” tended to be Prince Philip, who would say things everyone knew to be true, but which were unfashionable opinions, all the same.
This Oxiris Barbot did not make a gaffe. She committed an outright crime, which has almost certainly cost lives. She should pay.
3 years ago
The name of a real Bond villain if ever there was one – apart from Warren Wilhelm …or Sadist Khan…
3 years ago
She shoukd be fired immediately. She is the idiot that after lockdowns elsewhere, told people to gather in subways, go to parades etc. another clown who at its height cost people their lives.
3 years ago
Where we live the police are good, so I will defend them with this in mind.
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
What do you think of Dearbornistan law enforcement? Do you support them? After all, they’re sworn police officers.
3 years ago
So why do communists hate police? When police want to uphold the rule of law!
When the police don’t care about the rule of law, then they are part of over throwing the rule of law. For a revolution to happen, they need the police to make it happen and serve the communist elite. DeBlazio wants a revolution. Resist broadbrushing ALL police!
3 years ago
NYC health head rejected NYPD mask plea:
‘I don’t give two rats’ asses about your cops’
Most of the NYPD Is good. Here they turn their backs on DeBlazio. Most HATE him. They aren’t blindly serving the political elite communists. They resist him when they can.
It’s better to have the police and military on your side. Trump knows this too. He also genuinely respects them. Look at Venezuela. The military and police are on the side of illegitimate President Maduro and the citizens have been disarmed. We are at war – Trump knows this too….Be grateful they don’t all quit!
3 years ago
If I were a police officer in NYC, I would be arresting those NYC politicians for attempted murder!
3 years ago
NYPRAD – New York Police rats’ asses Department
3 years ago
3 years ago
Dayuuuum they are running that city and the sate like a third world country. I lump P. Rico with those also. The “elite” makes sure they are covered. Let the crumbs fall were they may. I guess i am naive. I just never realized how corrupt it all is. Being a seamen for half your life in the day that he internet was someones dream…….sad.
