It’s Not The Federal Government’s Fault New York Doesn’t Have More Ventilators, It’s Andrew Cuomo’s

The Federalist ^ | March 30, 2020 | Shawn Fleetwood

[unixfox]

This will not be reported by the fake media.

[moovova]

This comes as no surprise. Time and again, democrat leadership has proved to be less than stellar.

[God luvs America]

lest people forget- Four years ago cuomo was told the state was 16,000 ventilators short if there as a crisis. His response? Spend $27 million taxpayer dollars to fund college for illegals:

https://buffalonews.com/2019/01/23/college-aid-for-undocumented-immigrants-oked-by-legislature/

[Liz]

Cuomo passed up an opportunity to replenish dwindling NY ventilator supplies, opting, instead, to
“feel good about himself” by printing thousands of “I love New York” banners for display around the state.

(HAT TIP JOHN SEMMENS) Cuomo pointed out that his role model, Pres Barack Obama, was cutting CDC expenditures at
the same time albeit for a different reason. (Obama found out the CDC helped white people avoid disease more than it did minorities).

Cuomo was miffed that he would be held to a higher standard than a Nobel Prize winner.....cackle.

[moovova]

I mean, look at the guy’s picture above. He’s a thug.

[Repeal 16-17]

This will not be reported by the fake media.

Unless they can use it to make President Trump look badly.

[PGR88]

Cuomo thought that giving $750 million to oligarch Elon Musk for the promise of a few jobs, some nice green bona-fides and some headlines was a better investment.

[Oldexpat]

The COM laws allowed Obama and his cronies to make a lot of money selling licenses to hospitals in IL. Hire our consultant and you get your permit from the state.

[chopperk]

CUOMO AND BLASIO BOTH PUSHED FOR SANCTUARY CITIES AND GOT IT FOR THE DEM VOTE. NOW ILLEGAL ALIENS CROSS THE BORDER AND GO TO THE SANCTUARY STATES. PEOPLE WITH MEANS IN THE SANCTUARY CITIES RUSH TO THE SOUTH AND EAST FOR MEDICAL SAFETY. CUOMO AND BLASIO SHOULD BE PROSECUTED FOR VIOLATING THEIR OATHS TO PROTECT THE AMERICAN CITIZEN.

[Sacajaweau]

I heard Cuomo the other day trying to undo his stupidity.

He kept saying...they're in storage where they should be while we wait for the apex. He made a fool of himself.

[nesnah]

Son of Sfachim is in over his head.

[Drango]

*IF* this was true, I’m sure the NYYTimes and NPR would report it. /s

[Kid Shelleen]

Fake tough guy. He grew up in the Governor’s mansion and attended private schools.

[I want the USA back]

Here’s how it works in New Orleans, Puerto Rico, or New York: when a democrat screws up, the media goes up the hierarchy searching for a Republican. As soon as it finds one, the Republican is made to take the blame for the screwup.

If there is no one, then it’s White Privilege, or the Patriarchy, or some such delusion.

[ClearCase_guy]

I think the Chicago mayor is blaming the city’s problems on Republicans. Last time they had Republicans running stuff there was 1931. But, still, it’s our fault.

(I might be confusing Chicago with Detroit, but it doesn’t matter. They will search up through the Org Chart or back in time until they can find a Republican to blame.)

[A strike]

Any truth that by the time you need a ventilator you’re in extremis ?

[SunkenCiv]

There's a "fertilizer hit the ventilator" joke in all of this, I suggest using that phrase as the name of the recall petitions against Cuomo and DeBlasio.

• Dem Gov admits there's thousands of unused ventilators in NY
• Cuomo trying to explain the stockpile of ventilators in NY
• Cuomo Is No Hero
• President Trump, Gov. Cuomo continue to clash over N.Y. ventilator supply
• Cuomo Deserves No Plaudits for His Handling of Crisis
• Gov. Andrew Cuomo Admits Stockpile of Thousands of Unused Ventilators
• Trump - Thousand of ventilators found in New York
• Trump questions if New York will actually need 30K ventilators
• Trump cites report Cuomo passed on chance to buy 16,000 ventilators in 2015
• We didn't have to have ventilator shortage -- (New York) leaders chose not to prep for pandemic
• New York Wouldn't Spend $500 Mil on Ventilators, Willing to Spend $500 Mil On Illegals
• Cuomo needs 30,000 ventilators for coronavirus-stricken New Yorkers: Fauci

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• Here's the next big problem after New York gets ventilators
• Queens COVID-19 patient off ventilator on partner's birthday
• Gov. Cuomo Calls $2.2 Trillion Relief Bill 'Reckless' for Insufficient Aid to New York
• Cuomo calls $2T stimulus 'reckless,' says it fails to meet New York's needs

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• Andrew Cuomo: On Second Thought, "Quarantine Everyone" Might Have Backfired By Accelerating Spread Of Coronavirus
• Tucker Carlson slams NYC leaders for 'endangering' public in early stages of coronavirus pandemic
• Watch: Jake Tapper Calls Out NYC Mayor Who is Trying to Blame Trump for Coronavirus Crisis in New York
• CNN's Tapper to Bill de Blasio: Are Your Past Comments Partially To Blame For Rapid Spread Of Virus?
• De Blasio: Synagogues That Defy COVID-19 Restrictions Will Close Permanently If Necessary
• New Yorkers Suffer Today From Wounds Inflicted by de Blasio and Cuomo

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• also in NY state: Top hospital exec fired after saying Trump supporters with COVID-19 should give up ventilators and die
• From Facebook to fired: Roswell Park executive fired after anti-Trump posts
• Former Hillary Clinton staffer tells Trump supporters to 'chew some ibuprofen and be on with your day,' refuse ventilators

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• "...China's Spread of Corona Pandemic + Comrade De Blasio: Where is the Nexus...?

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• Democrat Governor's Coronavirus Aide Spreads False Rumors About Rationing

  Kasie Hunt, NBC News’ Capitol Hill correspondent, retweeted Bagley’s tweet...

• Paranoid and Unstable Michigan Governor Claims Vast Conspiracy Because Medical Vendors Not Providing Equipment...
• Trump goes for linguistic kill shot on Michigan Gov, "Half" Whitmer.

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• California once had mobile hospitals and a ventilator stockpile

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• Biden: I am issuing this challenge to the President: in the next 48 hours

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• This is a "Ventilator"

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• FDA relaxes oversight of ventilators in effort to boost supply
• Trump orders General Motors to make ventilators under Defense Production Act
• Trump invokes Defense Production Act to force GM to make ventilators after stalled talk
• Trump invokes Defense Production Act to force GM to make ventilators for coronavirus fight
• Trump ORDERS GM to open their shuttered Ohio plant and 'start making ventilators NOW' as he threatens to invoke special defense powers claiming company tried to price gouge
• Trump: Ford, GM, Tesla given ok to produce ventilators
• James Dyson designed a new ventilator in 10 days. He's making 15,000 for the pandemic fight
• Elon Musk delivers hundreds of ventilators bought in China to US

[Freedom of Speech Wins]

Bump

[John S Mosby]

The 2015 PDF of the NY State Health planning commission is available online. They state in it, at the time there were 4,800 ventilators. Cost of acquiring and storing more was put off and 1.) offset by a committee set up to decide the rules of use of a ventilator vs. imposing DO NOT Resuscitate Triage!!! In other words.... rationing the ventilators rather that store enough. All in 2015.