We didn’t have to have ventilator shortage — (New York) leaders chose not to prep for pandemic

New York Post ^ | March 19, 2020 | Betsy McCaughey

[Ken H]

Commissioner Oxiris Barbot
@NYCHealthCommr

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https://twitter.com/NYCHealthCommr/status/1226508570646269954

[Osage Orange]

ROFLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Osage Orange]

And “jobs”

[DocRock]

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[Dave Wright]

A key factor in state governments inability to fund these kinds of emergency needs is the fact that they still provide full pensions to most state employees. This liability requires them by law to spend billions of taxpayer dollars to shore up their reserve requirements that could be otherwise spent on immediate needs.

Most of the commercial world was forced to switch from defined benefit pensions to 401Ks when the laws changed on how much they would have to bank to guarantee their funds. State governments are long overdue to switch over to a sustainable retirement benefit system that doesn’t shortchange the immediate needs of their citizens.

[Macoozie]

“They Spent the Money on Hookers and Blow...”

Ventilators to save lives or . . .?

I can totally understand the dilemma.

[mumblypeg]

New York knew, had the money, & chose not to spend it.
Therefore, Trump’s fault.

[GOPJ]

Ahhh, truth is raising it's unwelcomed head...

[Captain Peter Blood]

Cuomo wants 30,000 Vents, well they can’t come out of thin air. By the time they get them crisis will be over, also have they got enough qualified people to run them if they did have them?

[jersey117]

It was beautiful to watch. Total checkmate.

[mewzilla]

NYS is 6 bil in the hole.

We’re spending ****loads of money.

Whether we’ve got it or not.

Just bupkis for public health.

[Romans Nine]

Nobody said or suggested they aren’t working to get the ventilators.

A guy I know that owns an electronic components clearing house just received an order from one of his customers for the parts to build 1000 ventilators.

I suspect Cuomo grossly overestimated his need.

I give Cuomo credit for fighting for his state (at least at this time)however. I hope my governor would do the same.

[RetiredScientist]

I suspect that NYC is not the only large city with this problem. Gov. Coumo’s proposed solution - having municipalities work together to lend expensive respirators out when neighbors have peak demand is not a bad idea. Gov Coumo was willing to lend out many of ours to other places who were in later peaks of this epidemic. Helping out one another during times if crisis builds rapport and a listening ear. President Roosevelt did just this with military hardware for our British Allies when he signed the Lend-Lease bill into law on March 11, 1941.

[RetiredScientist]

You might want to go look at his news conference. He had done the math.

[Amendment10]

Freepers, noting that the first link refers to ventilator unit, the other link referring to a "key piece" of ventilator unit, please compare the following two links.

• "A hospital grade ventilator is a costly machine, running between $25,000 and $50,000 each."

• Italians 3D-print key ventilator piece for just $1 to help battle coronavirus — so medical company threatens to sue them

[The Great RJ]

Cuomo’s emotional plea for 30,000 respirators is nuts in my opinion. Many people testing positive have few if any symptoms, most do not require hospitalization and not every hospitalized corona virus patient needs a respirator. My bet is that hundreds of respirators will be rushed to New York get lost in a bureaucratic shuffle and end up in some warehouse.

[donozark]

Had Cuomo not outlawed fracking in NY State they would have enough ventilators for every man, woman, and child in the world.

[Think free or die]

"Most of the commercial world was forced to switch from defined benefit pensions to 401Ks when the laws changed on how much they would have to bank to guarantee their funds. State governments are long overdue to switch over to a sustainable retirement benefit system that doesn’t shortchange the immediate needs of their citizens."

Of course those government workers with their defined benefit pensions have no concept of how it feels to have worked, saved, and invested into a 401K for decades only to see what is happening to it now.

[ronnie raygun]

Sure like the diversity infected CDC they use tax payer money for things that do not benefit to populace

[DilJective]

manual ventilating is an option, too. It takes some training, but it is possible and NY has millions of people to partake in saving lives. I will definitely do it where I live, if they need me.