Posted on 03/23/2020 8:06:42 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
New York (AFP) - New York's mayor urged US President Donald Trump Monday to enforce a nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of the deadly coronavirus, as he pleaded for desperately needed hospital supplies.
Bill de Blasio said America's federal government should roll out orders -- such as "shelter-in-place" in California and similar measures installed in New York -- across the world's number one power.
"They need to be everywhere," he told CNN, describing the illness's "oxygen" as human-to-human interaction.
"Unless you create social distancing... thousands of lives will be lost that could have been saved. It's as simple as that," de Blasio added.
New York City is now the epicenter of America's outbreak, with around 11,000 confirmed cases and more than 90 deaths, after the outbreak first spread in Washington state.
"It's going to be bad this week, it's going to be worse the following week. We have to be honest about this, this is just the beginning," warned de Blasio.
The mayor added that the city's public hospitals only have enough medical supplies to get through the week and urged the federal government to speed up production.
"I literally want to see hundreds of ventilators, I want to see first hundreds of thousands and millions of masks. If that doesn't come in starting this week, we will get to a point where people can't be saved who could have been saved," he said.
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I figure they’ll have crazy uncle Joe certified and drop this nut into the race without having to go through the normal vetting.
There’s a few here that would be amenable to that - they seem to have no idea of what the current restrictions and lock-downs are doing and what the fallout will be for many folks when it’s all over - lots of bankruptcies/repos and other bad stuff in the mill and they want to ensure it’s as bad as it can possibly be.
He’s committed fully to his ideology of gloom and destruction for all.
the dope from park slope is telling the nation, funny, this a##hat is a vagrant. The city is in this shape because he is a complete idiot and has done nothing but side with the entitlement crowd, illegal immigrants and the criminals on Rikers island
Just a rumor at this time (governor speaks at 2 CDT), but sounds like they are going to shut us down, at least in Omaha. Hopefully it will not be an extended time.
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