Posted on 06/20/2020 12:05:20 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
In a new secret recording of New Jersey Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli, she says she told a former assistant commissioner to “turn around” and scrap a plan to administer a private coronavirus test for the relatives of a top aide to Gov. Phil Murphy.
The health commissioner said in the recording she informed Christopher Neuwirth “not to do that” after he questioned whether it was ethical. But she said the department then handled the request for the test anyway.
Her private discussion appeared to back up some allegations in a whistleblower lawsuit filed earlier this week, in which Neuwirth alleges he was fired because he pushed back on the the request, delivered by Acting State Police Superintendent Patrick Callahan, to test the relatives of Murphy chief of staff George Helmy,
At the same time, copies of text messages obtained by NJ Advance Media between Callahan and Neuwirth purportedly show that Callahan was in fact in touch with Neuwirth discussing the tests in late April.
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just more proof that Democrat pigs are more equal than other pigs ...
I’m having a hard time seeing the issues here.
Why couldn’t the relatives go to the nearest doc in the box doing testing?
If that was problematic because first responders were taking up all the available slots, why couldn’t this person do it after hours?
Or was the real issue, which nobody has the guts to say up front, is that the people being tested didn’t want public health authorities informed in the event ant of the tests came back positive?
Door #3.
If they expected the results kept secret so that they didn’t have wait for the results and self-quarantine in the event if a postive, yup, whoever asked for that outta be ridden outta office on a rail.
And this isn’t a conservative outlet reporting. This is the main New Jersey news website.
Not so easy to make it go away
This may be a modified limited hangout.
What are you talkin about there was almost zero testing going on for so long. They were the privileged few.
It’s not supposed to work that way here.
That’s why our founding fathers took time from golf to write the Constitution :-)
We had to sit our happy butts at home waiting for bleeping test results.
They can damn well do it, too.
Boy, if this gets out, especially in a state like NJ that’s had this quarantine crap shoved down their throats for months...
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It might look bad for a Public Official to show distrust in Government run health processes, but when its family then the priorities are a bit different.
That bring up one important idea about a Government-ONLY run Healthcare : That you dont easily have a SECOND OPINION which was a traditional/historic resort for People.
Fully disturbing when considering the chronic ‘one-size-fits-all’ bureaucratic methodologies - when NOW involved in something as individually complicated as Healthcare.
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“Or was the real issue, which nobody has the guts to say up front, is that the people being tested didn’t want public health authorities informed in the event ant of the tests came back positive?”
I would expect you hit the nail on the head.
You also have to self-quarantine while waiting for the results...
I won’t print the rest of what I’m thinking...
“You also have to self-quarantine while waiting for the results...”
Tech hell.
The health commissioner said in the recording she informed Christopher Neuwirth “not to do that” after he questioned whether it was ethical. But she said the department then handled the request for the test anyway... appear[s] to back up some allegations in a whistleblower lawsuit... in which Neuwirth alleges he was fired because he pushed back on the the request, delivered by Acting State Police Superintendent Patrick Callahan, to test the relatives of Murphy chief of staff George Helmy... text messages... purportedly show that Callahan was in fact in touch with Neuwirth discussing the tests in late April.
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