Posted on 03/24/2020 6:08:40 PM PDT by david1292
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday girded New Yorkers for a long, hard fight against the coronavirus.
“I have to be honest about the fact that we do not expect this to go quickly, and I wish we did, but we don’t,” de Blasio said. “But I have to respectfully disagree with (President Donald Trump when he says), as he said earlier today, that he’s not looking at months for this crisis. I have to say, Mr. President, I wish that was the case for New York City, I hope that’s the case for the other parts of the country, but right now we are looking at months.”
De Blasio had previously said estimates on New York City’s medical supplies lasting to the end of the month did not match the increased rate of infection, and supplies were not expected to last the week.
“We are doing all we can just to get through March right now, particularly in terms of our health care system,” he said. “April will unquestionably be worse than March, and right now, my fear is May could be worse than April. That’s the reality we’re facing. I think the notion that we could be quote-unquote back to normal in April is absolutely inconceivable at this point.”
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The breakdown by borough: 4,667 in Queens, 4,407 in Brooklyn, 3,013 in Manhattan, 2,505 in the Bronx, 999 on Staten Island
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He now wants Trump to "mobilize the military."
NYC is a sewer, at best
Boy, now there’s a man of faith!
You voted for him NY City. Elections have consequences.
He was too busy working out at the gym.
Boy, now there’s a man of faith!
NYC hasn’t been normal since it elected a Communist Mayor.
NYC is its own island. The rest of us do not have to bow to their timetable. DeBlasio screwed up...bigtime.
Does this guy want a Great Depression with 30% unemployment, food lines and riots?
Lock it down. No one gets in, no one gets out.
I notice the rat picked the Pineapple off the pizza..
Just saying... :)
Of course, because a.k.a. DeBlasio will still be in office.
It is what it is for NYC.
NYC will never be “normal” because there is no way that many people, hundreds of thousands of whom are foreigners, should populate such a small area of land. Thank God, the rest of the country will get back to sensible living by Easter.
De Blasio is in a position to prevent a return to normal by whatever means necessary.
I listened to his conversation with Martha where the two of them decided that New Yorkers are the hardest working people in the world. They haven’t got a clue, workers in every US state work just as hard. New York is not the center of the universe
DeBlasio seems to think the rest of the country will be going through what they are going through. He ignores things like the fact that treatments are coming down the pike rapidly, the rest of the country is not as densely populated, and the American people are tough.
I don’t dislike New Yorkers but I really do dislike New York politicians
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