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.
At least you didn’t call me a Yankee. Thanks for that.
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.
Hopefully this finishes him as an elected official. I have no other words for this outrage.
I live just north of Albany, NY which is otherwise called the tri-city area for Albany, Schenectady and Troy. There is a mix of public and private hospitals I’m the tri-city area.
Conversely, the more rural counties in upstate NY will only have a single County hospital.
Note we haven’t heard anything publicly about converting space to treat regular medical issues or corona virus.
Cuomo has already stated the intend to transport NYC patients upstate and to the Albany area in particular. Which means about the time the crisis hits upstate the hospitals could well be swamped with NYC patients transported upstate. So, upstate patients get a tent? Probably!
Guess we’re too hearty, we weren’t helpless enough to depend on or vote for Demorats before.
Fredo's brother little Andy steals the medical equipment from the upstate kulaks of New York state.
Democrats want everyone dead.
I’m not against sharing of medical supplies. In theory, if downstate is facing a surge, but upstate is not (or will face a surge later) than why not share equipment.
BUT - I am an Upstate NY’er, and this also shows the extreme disconnect between conservative, rural, small-city upstate and the center of the NY political and financial universe, NY City.
Over the last few decades, progressive NY has turned upstate NY into the former eastern Europe. One-party power, means all decisions are based elsewhere and nothing changes. Statism and nanny-state bureaucracy means confiscatory taxes. Rules and regulations are forced on all locations, which match the politics only of those few in the center. Therefore, the economy is crap, and people must leave to find opportunity.
At last report several county officials were planning to sue to prevent the looting. Trump could stop it in a heartbeat if he wanted to- and would be a hero to most of the state if he did.
NY State (and other uniparty progressive places like IL or NJ) is absolutely screwed. 42% of NY’s “GDP” comes from the island of Manhattan, so the state budget depends on zero interest, printed money and bubbles blown on Wall Street. This concentration of money funds a perverse concentration of political and ideological power.
The silver lining of Covid-19 is that it will hopefully destroy the one-party, bureaucratic, leftist politics of these states when they find they are all insolvent.
The SOB took our PPE.
Ventalators?? I dont see Ventalators! Bruce did take a pallet of them on a boat, and the boat sank to the bottom of that lake
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.
That will not end well. Upstate is full of 2nd amendment types who are active hunters.
The New York city soy boys will be cut down before they soil themselves, turn and run
“If you like your death panels, you can keep your death panels!”
Dr. Fauci recommends everyone stay home and accept financial ruin for their family, while the good “Doctor” draws a paycheck from a job with ironclad security
+1000.
Cuomo is acting like FDR: from supporters of any one besides him, to his supporters.
New York has important people to look out for....
Reminds me of that time disease & parasite riddled illegals were shipped all over the US, including Alaska & Hawaii.
Any hospital upstate that did not remove the equipment and leave not much is a fool.
President Trump, Please federalize the New York State National Guard and order them to stand down immediately from any orders from Gov. Cuomo to confiscate ventilators. Announce this at today’s task force press briefing.
Well said! Central NY is a wreck because of this jerk and he has never won Oneida County.
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