Posted on 03/23/2020 8:06:42 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
New York (AFP) - New York's mayor urged US President Donald Trump Monday to enforce a nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of the deadly coronavirus, as he pleaded for desperately needed hospital supplies.
Bill de Blasio said America's federal government should roll out orders -- such as "shelter-in-place" in California and similar measures installed in New York -- across the world's number one power.
"They need to be everywhere," he told CNN, describing the illness's "oxygen" as human-to-human interaction.
"Unless you create social distancing... thousands of lives will be lost that could have been saved. It's as simple as that," de Blasio added.
New York City is now the epicenter of America's outbreak, with around 11,000 confirmed cases and more than 90 deaths, after the outbreak first spread in Washington state.
"It's going to be bad this week, it's going to be worse the following week. We have to be honest about this, this is just the beginning," warned de Blasio.
The mayor added that the city's public hospitals only have enough medical supplies to get through the week and urged the federal government to speed up production.
"I literally want to see hundreds of ventilators, I want to see first hundreds of thousands and millions of masks. If that doesn't come in starting this week, we will get to a point where people can't be saved who could have been saved," he said.
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Just order the NY/NJ Port Authority to close all OUTBOUND traffic except commercial & emergency vehicles.
Keep the China Flu in Chinatown.
Who will operate all those ventilatiors. Shut the country down then no money to pay for anything.
His little world is falling down around him in chaos so he wants everyone in the country to feel his mental anguish.
Too bad sucka; the vast majority of the country doesn’t live in a sanctuary cesspool and petri dish like NYC, SF, Chicago, and Seattle.
Standard protocol right down to the color codes that have been used for mass casualty TRAUMA incidents for over three decades.
The only difference is that these protocols would be applied to a mass casualty MEDICAL situation.
Worry about your own shithole city
‘Why shouldn’t Nebraska be subservient to a large eastern ultra liberal city?’
I think you meant to say ‘should’ instead of ‘shouldn’t’...
What does fear smell like? De Blaz.
“I literally want to see hundreds of ventilators, I want to see first hundreds of thousands and millions of masks. If that doesn’t come in starting this week,”
City Hall didn’t secure 1st order of COVID-19 supplies for NYC until March 6
https://nypost.com/2020/03/20/city-hall-didnt-order-covid-19-supplies-for-nyc-until-march-6/
“we will get to a point where people can’t be saved who could have been saved,” he said.”
You could stop supporting abortion. That would be a good place to start.
Take care of your own crappy city....
The World Health Organization put the death rate at a seriously false inflated rate, tanking the world economy, and yet we have Freepers still hyping the fear saying this will get worse (the death rate will go back up) when they don’t know this as it dropped from 4.06% to 1.25% in less than a month.
It may go up and it may not, we don’t know, but they know all. But all we have with knowable certainty are the stats we have right now as the WHO seems incompetent, yet they seem to trust them.
Lock DeBozio in a padded cell, secluded from any Fake News cameras that continue to make him look delusional and totally unprepared for handling his job in any difficult situation.
Sounds like he’s jealous of all the attention Cuomo has been getting.
That’s not how it works. deblobio gets to decide for NYC. Trump for the country.
I agree with all the negative comments about Blasio but there is a lot of out-of-state traffic coming in here lately.
Using the place? (Not likely because everything is closed.) Probably crossing over to others states. People who want to use us as a drive-through McDonald’s should have to be questioned about their purpose for being here. They could be bringing the virus in or carrying it out.
“At the market this weekend I noticed a host of vehicles from NY and NJ here in North Florida. Not used to seeing so many at any time of the year”
They are bringing their creeping crud down to FL.
Don’t fall for this, President Trump. The close-downers are seeking political cover from you for hysteria that the voters will hold them accountable for. Let people at the local level experiment with closures — and take the consequences if the experiments go wrong. That’s what federalism is all about.
I think it is about 35 in the Omaha area, several of which are fully recovered. A couple in Lincoln, several “out-state” from people traveling. No deaths in Nebraska yet, thank goodness.
I may not be 100% on all of the facts, but I think they were attributing only 2 of the Nebraska cases to “community spread” in which they could not track back to a confirmed exposure contact.
Just hoping things stay stable here, and the flattening the curve shows to work elsewhere.
Exactly.
Watch Giuliani’s recent Common Sense videos. He makes a convincing case DeBlasio is incompetent without ever saying so directly.
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