Cuomo's coronavirus failure – the real reason for New York's ventilator shortage

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  1. Josephwalker

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    Cuomo has been getting kudos from the left on his handling of the virus in NY and his constant blaming of Trump for ventilator shortages but the truth is the shortage is entirely his fault.

    "While the Democratic governor continues to blame President Trump for a ventilator shortage in New York, a state Health Department report warned Cuomo all the way back in 2015 about this exact problem."

    " Page 30 the Health Department report on ventilator allocation guidelines states: “during a severe influenza pandemic, there is likely to be a projected shortfall of ventilators (-15,783) during peak week demand.”

    "Where was the response from the governor? Where was the sense of urgency after such an explicit warning?

    Gov. Cuomo refused to act. He did not listen. He bought zero ventilators. The cost to purchase the needed ventilators was only 0.4 percent of the 2015-2016 state budget.

    Instead of buying life-saving ventilators, Cuomo wasted hundreds of millions of dollars on failed projects, like $750 million on a failed solar panel factory, $90 million on a partnership with a California light bulb company that went nowhere, and $600 million on a computer chip factory that went bust."


    https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/sea...us-but-keeps-wrongly-blaming-trump-and-others
     
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    Sean Hannity???????? Thanks for starting my day off with a chuckle.
     
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    So you used the source as a reason to ignore the facts and the actual report that Sean linked to? Did you think CNN would inform you of this? Thanks for the chuckle.
     
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    I don't know about CNN but if and when I see/hear it on MSNBC I'll believe it. There if they lie they get fired or at least demoted like Brian Williams did.
     
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    In other words you'd like to derail this thread and make it about FOX instead of dealing with the fact that the ventilator shortage in NY is entirely due to Cuomo's poor decisions.
     
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    When it becomes known how few people come off a ventilator alive this is going to be a nothing burger.
     
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    Interesting comment. Have any stats on that?
     
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    Cuomo has been magnificent and Trump a failure.
     
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    Cuomo failed to purchase any of the 15000 ventilators his own health department said would be required in the next flu pandemic. You call that magnificent?
     
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    So, you agree that all the politicians who have been incompetent and reckless during this pandemic should be defeated in the next election.

    Good, we both agree on that.

    Hannity and fact can't be in the same sentence.

    That's been even truer since the last month.
     
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    Only hearsay so far.
     
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    The virus isn’t our problem, government incompetence is.
     
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    Cuomo really has covered himself in glory as he begs and pleads the federal government to save his state from the absolute disaster his lack of preparation has caused.

    He's not the hero NY needs, he's the hero NY deserves.
     
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    That’s not a rebuttal, it’s a smear. Shame. Shame. Shame.
     
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    Now that’s brilliantly spot on. Who created the present healthcare system? We did by surrending our freedom of choice to politicians’ empty promises, government edicts, executive orders, and bureaucratic proclamations.

    The affhole is on TV right now fighting for complete government control of all hospitals in New York.It is always better to rely on the men with the wallets instead of politicians guns and empty promises.

    Politicians won’t defeat this virus, capitalists will.
     
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    He's approved by 87% of his constituents.

    Which means half the people who voted against him are satisfied with his work.

    Trump's is at 45%.....
     
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    My wife is a doctor, and she practiced on Long Island for over a decade. We left NY over a decade ago, because we saw the crushing regulations of NY bureaucracy destroying the healthcare system.

    When we left NY, my wife's malpractice insurance was $180,000/year. That's $180,000 she had to pay every single year just for being a doctor in NY. She'd be paying upwards of $200,000/year if we had stayed in NY. And the ridiculous malpractice premiums are just the beginning of the problem of hyper-regulation in NY's healthcare system.
     
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    Nanny states love their nannies.

    Like I said, he's the hero NY deserves.
     
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    Amen, brother, amen. You are preaching to the choir. Now he’s claiming that bitching about politicians’ incompetence is against the Constitution, we’re disturbing “...domestic tranquility.”

    He is even a bigger GD liar than Trump.
     
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    Only Trumpsters are smart in this world.
     
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    Wait until they hear about how Cuomo is why they don't have ventilators
     
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    I don't understand what point you were trying to make.

    Or was that just pointless snark?
     
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    Sweden makes Cuomo and Fauci look like idiots.

    “Sweden is suddenly a punching bag on social media. What did the Swedes do to anger the Twittersphere?

    Sweden, unlike its European neighbors and most US states, has declined to take a hardline approach to the novel coronavirus pandemic. “


    “Essentially, instead of closing its economy, national leaders have asked its citizens to limit the spread of COVID-19 another way: by acting responsibly.”

    https://fee.org/articles/could-sweden-s-laissez-faire-approach-to-the-coronavirus-actually-work/

    Cuomo is on TV stating it’s not his fault. No nation, no state, no community could handle this by themselves. The Sweden response proves him an idiot or a liar.

    Excuse me a moment, I need a shot of Jack to wash his filthy lying from my mind.
     
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    The system is set up by regulations and government controls for trial lawyers to eat better than physicians, and not just in NY.
     
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    Based on your opinion.

    Based on facts, it is the opposite.

    Cuomo has failed miserably by almost every measure.
     
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