The Republicans who run the sensible parts of the state thought that they were prepared... until the fascist Democrats decided to loot them.
Democrat areas will steal all of the equipment and never give it back.
Posted on 04/04/2020 10:19:54 AM PDT by shortstop
You’ve been triaged, upstate New York.
The governor put the black tag around your neck.
Some will live and some will die and, well, you don’t get to live.
That’s what Andy Cuomo’s decree of Friday means. Your ventilators go to his voters and when you get the COVID, well, good luck to you. If all goes well, your family can have a memorial service in a year or two, after the Chinese sell us the vaccine.
And if it’s not you, it’s your grandmother, or somebody’s grandfather, suffocating alone on a gurney in a tent.
He has decided to redistribute death, from the areas that weren’t prepared and aren’t social distancing, to the areas that were and are. He is robbing the poor to give to the rich.
He’s taking crucial and irreplaceable medical equipment from those parts of the state that voted for his opponent in the last election, and moving them to those areas of the state that voted for him.
And he’s sending the National Guard to do it.
“Deploy” was the verb he used. He’s deploying the Army to seize gloves, masks, gowns and ventilators from hospitals and clinics in upstate New York.
That will sicken nurses, doctors and respiratory therapists, and kill critically ill patients.
And that’s not just rhetoric, it’s undeniable medical truth.
Andy signed your DNR.
When every network newscast features an angry or frightened nurse shouting into her phone about the need for PPE, Andy Amin is taking PPE away from thousands of nurses across the broad swathe of upstate. He is endangering them and their families. He is increasing the likelihood that they will get infected, and that they will take the virus home to their children, spouses and parents.
When he said, “We’re all in this together,” you didn’t think he was talking about the grave.
The scenario is as old as the state – upstate is the door mat of downstate, a subjugated region overseen by an imperial master whose every action shows a disdain for his inferior colonial subjects. And so it is that in the life-or-death scramble to be prepared for the peak of the coronavirus wave, he has decided that upstate will take the hit.
All across largely rural upstate New York, chronically one of the poorest regions in the United States, hospitals have over years scrimped and saved to be properly equipped to serve their communities. This has been incredibly hard. The need is high and the purse is empty, but they’ve mostly been able to do it. Even when Obamacare forced many of them out of business or into consolidation, they pushed on, taking care of the people whose parents and grandparents sacrificed to build and fund the hospitals.
And then came the coronavirus, and hometown hospitals sprang into action, marshalling their forces and resources. All while facing the financial devastation of the government-ordered suspension of all elective surgeries and procedures – which has led some hospitals to furlough nurses and doctors, and left some with daily operating deficits in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
But the hospitals and their wonderful staffs pushed on.
And they stand ready, with enough gloves and masks to get them through a couple of weeks, and not nearly enough ventilators to meet the anticipated need of their communities.
And then Andy “Baby Doc” Duvalier spoke, and confiscated with his pen and his army those ventilators and gloves and masks.
Within two hours his administration’s position went from “excess” supplies to a mandatory 10% to a mandatory 20%, and now the weekend comes and the National Guard trucks are expected to roll and we all know they’ll take whatever the hell he wants.
The SOB took our PPE.
I wonder how many National Guardsmen will be returning on orders to their home communities to gather up and confiscate the medical supplies which would have cared for their own families. I wonder how many National Guard husbands will seize the masks and gloves that would have protected their own nurse wives.
I wonder why a governor whose civil government includes a fleet of thousands of vehicles decided to send military trucks and uniformed soldiers to confiscate medical supplies from his subjects.
Cavalierly in front of reporters, he brushed off any fear of restraining law suits, and said that New York City would return the ventilators when it is done with them, or will reimburse rural hospitals for them. That’s cold comfort from a governor who says he’s broke, and who repeatedly has said ventilators aren’t available on the open market.
Several upstate communities have lit candles to honor and thank the health care workers on the frontlines of this fight. By plundering their personal protective equipment, the governor is assuring that we will next light candles for their funerals. We are marching into battle, and he just confiscated our bullets.
We have elderly people in fear for their lives, and their governor has just made it less likely there will be a ventilator available for them when their crisis comes.
He mishandles his state and its largest city, creating a worse situation than existed in Italy, and puts New York on track to be the hardest-hit region in the global pandemic, and decides to devastate a region which had the good sense to be prepared.
And this all happens on the same day we learn that the unemployment website will be down for at least another week, and the governor gets a $25,000 raise this year and another $25,000 raise next year.
His executive order is an act of homicide.
And Cuomo will be remembered by history as the truck governor.
Army trucks for his theft, and refrigerated trucks for his dead.
Idiot. So if cuomo sends 2593 patients, you're going to accept them all? DId you ask if all the beds were filled?
Is this another medical insurance transportation scam? (When I was discharged from a hospital they wouldn't allow a friend of mine to pick me up. They made me wait 2 hours for an Uber. Turns out that these uber drivers love picking up patients because they get paid about $250 a ride.
Did cuomo send convid-19 inmates upstate?
Everyone Jumps Off Bridge After New Government Order Telling Everyone To Jump Off Bridge!
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U.S.—After state governments across the country directed their citizens to shut down their businesses and just kinda hope things worked out, a new order has been issued: everyone is to jump off a bridge immediately.
A government official issued the order to solve our current crisis, and everyone immediately complied.
“Everyone jump off a bridge,” said a representative of the government.
“OK,” said everyone. “If the government says so, it’s probably a good idea. Besides, what can we do? It’s the government. They definitely have the best people working on it.”
The directive was designed to end coronavirus. Medical experts believe it’s the best, most effective way to stop the virus.
Assuming everyone follows through and obeys the order, coronavirus will be wiped out, according to officials. There are no bad side effects, as far as anyone can tell.
A few people pointed out that it could kill everyone, but these people are anti-science and obviously hate their neighbors.
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“Not one.”
EXACTLY. Our brave pols could even affix their signatures to the latest XXXTRILLION tax/debt-slavery bill.
Not one.
Very well-stated, Gramps. BUMP!
The Republicans who run the sensible parts of the state thought that they were prepared... until the fascist Democrats decided to loot them.
Democrat areas will steal all of the equipment and never give it back.
I will add, Nipples O’Doomo has decreed NURSING HOMES up here must take Commie Chinese Flu patients. NURSING HOMES!
Meanwhile, this jackass “Governor is waiting for his apex in NYC - screw any other part of the state -and demanding everybody pay attention to him and help him.
He is SO like my ex-husband. Creates a mess willfully and then expects everyone around him to pick up the pieces. Egomaniacal megalomaniac.
“Nursing homes that have been taking extreme measures to keep out COVID-19 are now going to have to accept new residents diagnosed with the virus.
“The state Department of Health sent out a notice informing every nursing home of the rule last week.
“It was not greeted with enthusiasm.
“At The Pines in Glens Falls, workers found technicalities to refuse two hospital transfers this week. While they found allowable reasons to say no, their real concern was that they don’t believe they have secure facilities to separate those residents from others.
“The state’s new rule was the subject of a “very frank” conversation at Monday’s conference call among all local nursing homes, said Fort Hudson CEO Andy Cruikshank.
“We don’t think it’s advisable to do it. However, understanding we are in very peculiar times, I understand the Health Department is trying to respond to the situation as best they can,” he said.
“The Health Department is trying to move people out of hospitals quickly as beds fill up with coronavirus patients.
“There is an urgent need to expand hospital capacity in New York state to be able to meet the demand for patients with COVID-19 requiring acute care,” the state said in its letter to nursing homes.
“Cruikshank proposed they only require nursing homes to take the patients if the hospital is full, but his suggestion was not accepted.
“Elderly patients who are stable, but still recovering from the virus, often need to go to a nursing and rehabilitation home for a period of time before they are able to live independently again.
“But deliberately bringing the virus into the nursing home seems to fly in the face of other regulations: workers are checked for fever at the beginning of each shift and no visitors are allowed.
“At Fort Hudson, Cruikshank called a team meeting and explained the situation. They brainstormed solutions and decided to convert the adult day care room — a large recreation area in the basement — into a ward for coronavirus patients. The room is not being used right now because no visitors are allowed in nursing homes.
“He got enough volunteers to staff the entire five-bed ward.....”
I have a hard time taking any politician seriously who has pierced nipples.
Perhaps that is shallow of me, but nevertheless it is where I land on the Governor.
In a month or two he’ll send nat guard troops to steal from Wegmans to send food where it’s needed.....
You dumb son of a bitch, we in upstate New York DID NOT VOTE for Cuomo. That’s why he’s taking our supplies. That’s the point of the article, you idiot.
And yes I may well be breaking FR rules. Sue, boot me, I don’t care. I’ve had it with all the jerks who think those of us who live no where near the center of power, and in no way voted for it, are responsible for our fate.
There's nothing "negligent" about it. What "emperor Coo-Mo" is doing to what he has come to consider his "subjects" is deliberate; there's nothing "negligent" about it.
Oneida County where I live is red.
When I think of upstate NY I think of my one visit there to a beautiful spot called Schroon Lake. Friend had a cabin only accessible by boat, what a great retreat.
If I was a medical person there, that equipment would be mysteriously lost before anyone showed up. Boat accident?
Knowing Coumo, he probably charged the up state hospitals for this gear, they didn’t get to keep.
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Blue, help is for you.
Red, drop dead.
-Andrew
You are right and people need to drop the blaming of entire states that contain plenty of conservatives, just not a majority. I’ve watched Colorado go from red to blue due to “immi-grates”. I hide out where the counties are still red, and it’s good here so far.
The NY Assembly and Senate wanted to go home TWO Sundays ago, Cuomo shamed them into staying to pass the budget in that first press conference
Remember these sorts of things before you look at his press conferences and think 'gosh, he's surprisingly good in a crisis'. He's a good actor but behind the scenes he's playing politics the whole way.
Hospitals should immediately hide their equipment and PPE.
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