Posted on 04/04/2020 10:19:54 AM PDT by shortstop
Youve been triaged, upstate New York.
The governor put the black tag around your neck.
Some will live and some will die and, well, you dont get to live.
Thats what Andy Cuomos 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 its not you, its your grandmother, or somebodys grandfather, suffocating alone on a gurney in a tent.
He has decided to redistribute death, from the areas that werent prepared and arent social distancing, to the areas that were and are. He is robbing the poor to give to the rich.
Hes 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 hes sending the National Guard to do it.
Deploy was the verb he used. Hes 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 thats not just rhetoric, its 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, Were all in this together, you didnt 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 theyve 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 administrations 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 theyll 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. Thats cold comfort from a governor who says hes broke, and who repeatedly has said ventilators arent 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.
100% what you said..put caution our hospital is infected enter at your own risk on the doors and windows cctv cameras to live broadcast everything
Right. I would “trust” him to have my back. /sarc
Cuomo wants conservatives to die so that liberals can live.
I guess if you like your ventilator you can’t keep your ventilator.
If you let them take your guns, they will soon come for your ventilators.
Do the upstate locals need to organize a militia?
I'm throwing the BS flag. Haven't we had FR apologists explain the dark hallways, empty parking lots, laid off staff, etc, by saying they didn't have any non-Covid patients, by design?
They had plenty of hospital rooms. Why not just wheel them down the hall, instead of transferring them to care centers where they present a hazard to everyone else? Moving infection into-what would you call it-fertile soil?
They don't represent a danger to the Covid patients, and the Covid patients don't represent a danger to them.
They figure if they vote at all, they'll vote RAT.
They had plenty of hospital rooms. Why not just wheel them down the hall, instead of transferring them to care centers where they present a hazard to everyone else? Moving infection into-what would you call it-fertile soil?
Exactly. This action seems like a direct attack on Seniors. It is beyond despicable. It is beyond execrable.
What it looks like is Cuomo is stealing our resources from upstate and moving this contagion into our spaces. We didn’t vote for him, he’s trying to kill us off?
The jerkoff sonofabitch won just 14 out of 62 NY counties. we despise him.
Same here in Washington State. Inslee can’t get a cup of coffee east of the mountains.
Not only that he will NOT let doctors prescribe medications that will keep them from ending up in the hospital in the first place!,,
I wonder what MD license this guy has to override a patients attending physician orders or prescription ? Must be a really big license to allow overriding without examination by hizzhonor.
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Didn’t islanders faced with catastrophe and incompetent leaders THROW those Leaders into a Volcano to in response ???
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Cuomo is spinning plates and killing upstaters
If the doctors just prescribe they can sue Cuomo if pharmacists refuse to fill prescriptions!! He has NO RIGHT to come between Dr. and patients!!
Fauci is a prime example of Elites Yet Idiots, who tell how to live our lives, what to eat, what not to eat and on and on 24/7.
Then, when reality proves that these a$$holes were wrong and dangerous, their mediots allow them to walk away to create more disasters like Gorebull warming.
“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!”
More, than likely, they will be sent home to “Shelter in Place and to die”!
Well, upstate New York, looks like your Governor Don Cuomo declared war on you.
President Trump: “Our country is in the midst of a great national trial, unlike any we have ever faced before. [...] Were at war with a deadly virus. Success in this fight will require the full absolute measure of our collective strength, love, and devotion. Its very important. Each of us has the power through our own choices and actions to save American lives and rescue the most vulnerable among us”
More than 7,000 Deaths in America from the novel coronavirus in the United States!
9/11 fatalities? 2,996!
Pearl Harbor American Military killed: more than 2,300 killed!
https://www.foxnews.com/category/health/infectious-disease/coronavirus#&_intcmp=corona_trkr;>
Covid 19 map of your city/county:
The dem governors of today, who control the health systems of the states, $crew us 24/7.
They don’t need trucks and CC camps.
They just shelter us in place without proper treatment.
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