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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Needs to do his damned job.
Exactly
Democrats have three major problems with President Trump:
1) He is Hitler
2) He is a Dictator
3) He has refused to demand a national lockdown which would force everyone to do as they are told and move about only with his permission.
Good Grief, calm yourself, Wilhelm.
This guy has no credibility.
All the democrat governors and mayors are calling to hurt the economy to hurt Trump and help the democrap party. They HATE America!
“profiles in leadership”
sounds more like profiles in bullship to me ...
Bill de Blasio trying to stay relavent. Fruit you deblahhsio.
“so if he wants to lock down his nation, he has the power to do that.”
No, he doesn’t. He cannot declare himself dictator.
Let's lock him up instead.
Bill de Blasio and Cuomo want Trump to declare martial law so later they can later claim Trump was acting like ‘Hitler’ while they can claim their hands were forced.
A large waste of flesh and oxygen.
5.56mm
Seriously? Why shouldn’t Nebraska be subservient to a large eastern ultra liberal city? Give me one good reason!
The Worst Mayor in America.
If he declares martial law. Otherwise the states can be requested to lock down and that is all. The federal government could also ban travel across state borders. Those two actions are about all the president could do.
Why is it that New York politicians feel that they should be able to tell the rest of the country what to do?
Is lazy DiBlasio still sleeping until 10 am?
He forgets HE was elected Governor, now he wants Trump to lead his state. We are a nation of states, he leads one of them, and very poorly I might add. When did he firs learn about the Wuhan flu? Why didn't he get his hospitals the gear they need? Did he order respirators? What about tests, did he order enough, why wasn't he prepared?
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