Posted on 04/03/2020 6:20:15 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
A day after New York reported its first case of novel coronavirus, Gov. Andrew Cuomo delivered words of confidence to residents.
"This isn't our first rodeo," Cuomo said at a March 2 press conference. "We are fully coordinated, and we are fully mobilized, and we are fully prepared to deal with the situation as it develops."
The same day Cuomo, who has been praised by some for his response, made his remarks, President Donald Trump and his administration addressed the nation and called New York's response "a very late start."
Here's a comparison of how New York and the Trump administration responded to the pandemic during the month of March.
March 1
Cuomo announced New York's first confirmed coronavirus patient: a woman in her late 30s believed to have contracted the virus in Iran.
"There is no cause for surprise -- this was expected."
March 2
Cuomo announced that the Wadsworth Center, a public health laboratory within the State Department of Health in Albany, was partnering with hospitals to expand testing capacity to 1,000 tests per day.
The same day, Trump criticized Democrats, saying "they are fearmongering" and had criticized him when he "closed the country down to China many weeks ahead of what almost everyone recommended."
March 3
Cuomo reported the state's second confirmed case, along with measures to better equip New York to handle potential spread.
Trump at the time said that the U.S. was monitoring other countries that had been badly affected to see if more stringent measures were necessary to prevent a major outbreak in the U.S.
March 4
Confirmed cases began to slowly rise in New York, with Cuomo reporting a total of 11, up from two from the day before.
The president incorrectly blamed a delay in testing on the Obama administration.
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They START the TIMELINE at MARCH 1st????...
Start it at JANUARY 1st and see what actually happened!...............
[MSM: If we don’t report it, it didn’t happen!].........................
THAT'S what Coomo reminds me of. A rodeo clown.
Apologies to rodeo clowns, who actually perform an essential service.
And he's been pissing and moaning about his lack of preparedness every day since.
Boy, can they tell a story!
Just remember New Yorkers...if it was not for POTUS, Donald J. Trump....many more of you would have just passed away while your failed do nothing Governor, Andrew Cuomo pranced around on TV telling the whole world what he needed, because he did not do his number one job at all...protecting his state and citizens. What fools you New Yorkers are!!!
If you all had an ounce of functioning brains, you would pack Andrew Cuomo in ice and send his useless self to Alsaka to freeze forever!!! You voted for him and you certainly got exactly what you deserved...much unnecessary death of innocents!!! Wake up....New York fools and idiots!!!
The purpose of Pelosi-Schiff holding hearings on Trump’s response to the Corona Pandemic is not to impeach him, it’s to string out the virtual media immunity of their members who are facing arrest.
If they can keep it going until November, they think they can dominate the fakes news and keep the arrests off the front page.
It’s their PR response to dominate the narrative.
Know-it-all Cuomo (trashing Trump) once said “America was never that great.”
He needs to tell us why this “inferior nation” is worthy of his humongous talents (sarc).......
TIMELINE OF CUOMO’S STUPIDITY
When Cuomo was told the state needed crisis-ready ventilators, he spent $27 million tax dollars to educate illegals AND denied gold star families the sane benefit.
<><> in 2017 Cuomo ordered the money-grubbing MTA spend around $30 million on re-tiling two city tunnels with the state’s blue-and-gold motif rather than using the funds for much-needed repairs.
<><> In 2018, Cuomo was cited out for massive overspending on endeavors that did not see the light of day.
<><> millions of tax dollars injected into a solar-panel factory, touted as the largest potential manufacturing facility in the nation, only to be taken over by Tesla which scaled back solar endeavors, leaving its future – and the reported $50 million New Yorker tax dollars – in limbo.
<><> a 2014 partnership with California light bulb company Soraa, w/ a $90 million taxpayer-financed factory outside Syracuse, that went bust.....with lights that failed to flicker on.
<><> millions of tax dollars Cuomo spent on putting up 500 “I Love New York” promotions signs across state highways, despite violations of state and federal highway safety regulations.
<><> in 2017 Cuomo ordered the money-dead MTA spend around $30 million on retiling two city tunnels with the state’s blue-and-gold motif rather than using the funds for much-needed repairs.
<><> In 2018, Cuomo was cited out for massive overspending on endeavors that did not see the light of day.
<><> millions of tax dollars injected into a solar-panel factory, touted as the largest potential manufacturing facility in the nation, only to be taken over by Tesla which scaled back solar endeavors, leaving its future – and the reported $50 million New Yorker tax dollars – in limbo.
<><> a 2014 partnership with California light bulb company Soraa, w/ a $90 million taxpayer-financed factory outside Syracuse, that went bust.....with lights that failed to flicker on.
<><> millions of tax dollars Cuomo spent on putting up 500 “I Love New York” promotions signs across state highways, despite violations of state and federal highway safety regulations.
<><> NYC's first Latina Commissioner of Health
<><> boasted "she uses a racial equity lens" to administer health.
<><> setup a "Center for Health Equity"
<><> said she's "operationalizing the Health De partment’s commitment to racial justice"
<><> is focusing on "medicalizing social justice."
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Identity Politics Lied. New Yorkers Died
Frontpage Mag ^ | April 2, 2020 | Daniel Greenfield / FR Posted by CheshireTheCat
New York City’s Latina Health Commissioner Oxiris Barbot was warning that “even brief contact with the police or indirect exposure is associated with lasting harm to people’s physical and mental health”. “We as a public health department have really been trying to frame criminal justice system involvement as an exposure,” Barbot’s epidemiologist, Kimberly Zweig, claimed. Zweig had a degree in epidemiology, but her focus was entirely on PTSD and stress. Not on disease. Why was New York City so badly unprepared for the arrival of the coronavirus? The answer was radical politics. And Barbot and Zweig embodied the public health mismanagement of a radical administration. (Excerpt) Read more at frontpagemag.com ...
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December 19, 2018---Mayor de Blasio And His Wife Announce First Latina Health Commissioner
NEW YORK—Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the Latina Health Commissioner will double down on the agency’s commitment to achieving health equity. Dr. Barbot understands that improving the health of our city starts with keeping health equity at the center of our work,” said Mayor Bill de Blasio. “
First Lady Chirlane McCray: “Dr. Barbot has dedicated her life to eliminating disparities and injustices in health care,” said “I am proud to welcome a public servant so deeply committed to ensuring that the WHOLE patient is treated—mind and body. New York City is fortunate to have such an exceptional new Health Commissioner.”
Mayor de Blasio and Latina Health Commissioner.
This is a MAJOR problem, one our biggest. The MSM has the incredible power to ignore.
Because they and their audience are ignoramuses!............
The US has more fake news media than anywhere in the world
Amen to that.
After reading this, I’m convinced MSM is going to push for a “Dump Biden, Insert Cuomo” campaign.
We could argue the first impeachment distracted from the early stages of the Chinese virus pandemic.
A new investigation definitely would.
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