Gov. Cuomo Rejected Buying 16,000 Ventilators in 2015 for Pandemic, Established Death

A little context... looks like everybody stock piled too little...

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To be fair, governments everywhere stockpiled too little. Washington didn’t do much better: The federal Strategic National Stockpile is undersupplied to meet the coronavirus emergency.

https://nypost.com/2020/03/19/we-di...rtage-leaders-chose-not-to-prep-for-pandemic/
Only because others refused to stockpile enough themselves.

Exactly who is supposed to be doing the stockpiling? I am a little fuzzy on this.

Is it the job of the individual hospitals to stockpile equipment and supplies in case of a pandemic?

Is it the job of the state and local governments to stockpile equipment and supplies in case of a pandemic?

Is it the job of the the Fed Govt to stockpile equipment and supplies in case of a pandemic?

The same people that were impeaching Trump....

So it is the Dems jobs to stockpile equipment and supplies in case of a pandemic? Why is it their job? Why do the Repubs get a free pass?
The dems run the house the house does the spending and purchasing and planning for a pandemic or other disasters natural and otherwise...you demtards wanted to win the house so you could impeach Trump...maybe you should have wanted to win to do good things for the nation instead....
 
A little context... looks like everybody stock piled too little...

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To be fair, governments everywhere stockpiled too little. Washington didn’t do much better: The federal Strategic National Stockpile is undersupplied to meet the coronavirus emergency.

https://nypost.com/2020/03/19/we-di...rtage-leaders-chose-not-to-prep-for-pandemic/
Only because others refused to stockpile enough themselves.

Exactly who is supposed to be doing the stockpiling? I am a little fuzzy on this.

Is it the job of the individual hospitals to stockpile equipment and supplies in case of a pandemic?

Is it the job of the state and local governments to stockpile equipment and supplies in case of a pandemic?

Is it the job of the the Fed Govt to stockpile equipment and supplies in case of a pandemic?


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Each state is required to have an Emergency Management Plan. FEMA is supposed to back up the State when emergencies occur. Each Plan is supposed to cover disasters and pandemics. The fact that governors of our 50 states are just beginning to react to the Wuhan Covid-19 contamination and finding they don't have enough equipment to fight the virus is indicative of poor planning especially after the H1N1 virus epidemic.
Please note that the hardest hit cities and States are Democrat BLUE...
 
That’s true... just as if a disease hit us that shut down kidneys we would likely be short stocked with dialysis machines. Hopefully we can learn from this horrible pandemic and be better prepared in the future

For many, asteroids are a bigger threat.
Was that supposed to be funny?

No.
It was a true story BEFORE the Wuhanvirus hit.
Well how many have died from astroids and how many have died from Covid19? This explanation should be good... bring on the hot air

I never bought into the asteroid theory, grasshopper.
Then why did you bring it up ?
 
For many, asteroids are a bigger threat.
Was that supposed to be funny?

No.
It was a true story BEFORE the Wuhanvirus hit.
Well how many have died from astroids and how many have died from Covid19? This explanation should be good... bring on the hot air

I never bought into the asteroid theory, grasshopper.
Then why did you bring it up ?

Fuhgettabout it.
 
A little context... looks like everybody stock piled too little...

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To be fair, governments everywhere stockpiled too little. Washington didn’t do much better: The federal Strategic National Stockpile is undersupplied to meet the coronavirus emergency.

https://nypost.com/2020/03/19/we-di...rtage-leaders-chose-not-to-prep-for-pandemic/
Only because others refused to stockpile enough themselves.
That’s true... just as if a disease hit us that shut down kidneys we would likely be short stocked with dialysis machines. Hopefully we can learn from this horrible pandemic and be better prepared in the future

For many, asteroids are a bigger threat.

Exactly. I mean, what if a disease hit us that required prophylactic tin foil hats. In the country adequately stocked on Reynolds Wrap?
 
NY Gov. Cuomo Rejected Buying Recommended 16,000 Ventilators in 2015 for Pandemic, Established Death Panels and Lottery Instead



https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/202...ttery-instead/
22 Mar 2020 ~~ By Kristinn Taylor
Life comes at you fast, as the saying goes, or as the case may be in this era of a viral pandemic, death comes at you fast. Sadly it is the latter for the citizens of New York who will pay the price for Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D) 2015 decision to not fix a shortfall and buy the recommended 16,000 ventilators to shore up the state’s stockpile in case of a pandemic. Cuomo spent more money than the cost of the ventilators on a solar panel boondoggle, reports former New York Lieutenant Governor Betsy McCaughey (R) in a syndicated column published this past week. McCaughey reports the Cuomo administration decided instead to establish “triage officers” to decide in a crisis who would get a ventilator and who would be left to die.
It has also been reported a ventilator lottery would be an option in a pandemic crisis. Now with the COVID-19 Chinese coronavirus overwhelming New York hospitals, Cuomo is begging for ventilators.
NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo gestures toward a hospital ventilator during an interview with CNN New Day co-host Alisyn Camerota, March 19, screen image.
…After learning that the state’s stockpile of medical equipment had 16,000 fewer ventilators than New Yorkers would need in a severe pandemic, Gov. Andrew Cuomo came to a fork in the road in 2015. He could have chosen to buy more ventilators. Instead, he asked his health commissioner, Howard Zucker to assemble a task force and draft rules for rationing the ventilators they already had.
That task force came up with rules that will be imposed when ventilators run short. Patients assigned a red code will have the highest access, and other patients will be assigned green, yellow or blue (the worst) depending on a “triage officer’s” decision. In truth, a death officer. Let’s not sugarcoat it. It won’t be up to your own doctor.
Cuomo could have purchased the additional 16,000 needed ventilators for $36,000 apiece or a total of $576 million in 2015. It’s a lot of money but less than the $750 million he threw away on a boondoggle “Buffalo Billion” solar panel factory. When it comes to state budget priorities, spending half a percent of the budget on ventilators is a no brainer.


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I have to hand it to Cuomo he's smacked down De Blasio for his panic and fear mongering. Meanwhile he's covering his backside about the fact that he refused to buy the needed 16,000 respirators when there was planning for a situation like we're going through today. Hindsight is 20/20 but he made the call now he responsible for his actions and should pay for it, not the citizens that elected him.
No doubt the biased LSM will not bring this up and blame Trump for the failings of this governor.
We now are finding that Fredo's older brother is another dim bulb in the Cuomo family, he's not even bright enough to attract a moth. If puppets were smart, they wouldn't be puppets.
The biased MSM won't hold a Democrat like Cuomo to task. It's up to the voters to take action.....
It's a damn good thing Trump actually got GM to offer to build those ventilators. I'm sure they'll blame Trump for them not building SUVs instead right now.
As a hard a right winger as I am, I'm not going to find fault with this
 
A little context... looks like everybody stock piled too little...

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To be fair, governments everywhere stockpiled too little. Washington didn’t do much better: The federal Strategic National Stockpile is undersupplied to meet the coronavirus emergency.

https://nypost.com/2020/03/19/we-di...rtage-leaders-chose-not-to-prep-for-pandemic/
Only because others refused to stockpile enough themselves.

Exactly who is supposed to be doing the stockpiling? I am a little fuzzy on this.

Is it the job of the individual hospitals to stockpile equipment and supplies in case of a pandemic?

Is it the job of the state and local governments to stockpile equipment and supplies in case of a pandemic?

Is it the job of the the Fed Govt to stockpile equipment and supplies in case of a pandemic?
Stockpile, not cover for them when they make stupid decisions. Two different animals.

You did not answer the question.
 
WTF. Cuomo is bashing Trump while having 4 hospitals built and med ships coming. Totally holding his pecker while he pisses and moans
 
This is just unbelievable how liberal government wrecked us


She a tramper. Such bias , and then Sara Carter, refers you to the same article an opinion piece on NY Post, and now it on it's way to every right wing news articles and so far I see nothing to back this up, except for an opinion piece from the tramper.

There is nothing to back up this statement.
 
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Is TRUMPs govt liberal? They too chose not to stock the National Strategic stock piles the past 3 years, even though they were advised to do such, by the previous administration who had completed an analysis of a pandemic simulation exercise in Oct 2016 that showed the shortages on PPE protective gear and equipment....

Everyone involved were negligent, state gvts, hospitals and the federal gvts pandemic preparedness teams.
 
Is TRUMPs govt liberal? They too chose not to stock the National Strategic stock piles the past 3 years, even though they were advised to do such, by the previous administration who had completed an analysis of a pandemic simulation exercise in Oct 2016 that showed the shortages on PPE protective gear and equipment....

Everyone involved were negligent, state gvts, hospitals and the federal gvts pandemic preparedness teams.

I see you ignore the ventilators immediately. Then say its every ones fault.
Where was your Obama after the first in 09?? Ebola?? No masks.... I hate this not seeing the likability ratio. I have never answered you. You were about 25%. That tells me all I need to know.

Are you one those types that had a crappy boss rule your life, then come here and kick the dog?
 
She a tramper. Such bias , and then Sara Carter, refers you to the same article an opinion piece on NY Post, and now it on it's way to every right wing news articles and so far I see nothing to back this up, except for an opinion piece from the tramper.

There is nothing to back up this statement.

No link to that sage advice, no information on who issued it, not even a hint as to the advisor's qualification.

But yeah, for our good trumpletons, an opinion they like equates to "fact". For while "I am the only one" - not taking any responsibility at all - shall be held blameless, there is some blame to be spread around, a surplus, if you will.
 
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Is TRUMPs govt liberal? They too chose not to stock the National Strategic stock piles the past 3 years, even though they were advised to do such, by the previous administration who had completed an analysis of a pandemic simulation exercise in Oct 2016 that showed the shortages on PPE protective gear and equipment....

Everyone involved were negligent, state gvts, hospitals and the federal gvts pandemic preparedness teams.

I see you ignore the ventilators immediately. Then say its every ones fault.
Where was your Obama after the first in 09?? Ebola?? No masks.... I hate this not seeing the likability ratio. I have never answered you. You were about 25%. That tells me all I need to know.

Are you one those types that had a crappy boss rule your life, then come here and kick the dog?
Obama was in office 3 months before the first crisis of H1N1 hit, Trump was in office 3 years before this pandemic.

All masks etc were sold out for three years due to that crisis... the Obama admin began replacing the protective gear 3 yrs later... then Ebola hit....in 2014.

We were left short under Obama, according to a pandemic simulation project his pandemic team exercised. They got the final study on shortcomings Oct 2016....And went over this study and shortcomings with the Trump transition pandemic team, about 70 trumpets.....

But 2/3s of those 70 have been fired or quit.
 
Is TRUMPs govt liberal? They too chose not to stock the National Strategic stock piles the past 3 years, even though they were advised to do such, by the previous administration who had completed an analysis of a pandemic simulation exercise in Oct 2016 that showed the shortages on PPE protective gear and equipment....

Everyone involved were negligent, state gvts, hospitals and the federal gvts pandemic preparedness teams.

I see you ignore the ventilators immediately. Then say its every ones fault.
Where was your Obama after the first in 09?? Ebola?? No masks.... I hate this not seeing the likability ratio. I have never answered you. You were about 25%. That tells me all I need to know.

Are you one those types that had a crappy boss rule your life, then come here and kick the dog?
the responsibility goes first to state and local governments
 
Is TRUMPs govt liberal? They too chose not to stock the National Strategic stock piles the past 3 years, even though they were advised to do such, by the previous administration who had completed an analysis of a pandemic simulation exercise in Oct 2016 that showed the shortages on PPE protective gear and equipment....

Everyone involved were negligent, state gvts, hospitals and the federal gvts pandemic preparedness teams.

I see you ignore the ventilators immediately. Then say its every ones fault.
Where was your Obama after the first in 09?? Ebola?? No masks.... I hate this not seeing the likability ratio. I have never answered you. You were about 25%. That tells me all I need to know.

Are you one those types that had a crappy boss rule your life, then come here and kick the dog?
Obama was in office 3 months before the first crisis of H1N1 hit, Trump was in office 3 years before this pandemic.

All masks etc were sold out for three years due to that crisis... the Obama admin began replacing the protective gear 3 yrs later... then Ebola hit....in 2014.

We were left short under Obama, according to a pandemic simulation project his pandemic team exercised. They got the final study on shortcomings Oct 2016....And went over this study and shortcomings with the Trump transition pandemic team, about 70 trumpets.....

But 2/3s of those 70 have been fired or quit.
Obama and Hillary created a 5 year Russian hoax, shoving it up Trumps ass. This is on you.

Thank you for debating civilly. Sorry if I was abrasive.
 
Is TRUMPs govt liberal? They too chose not to stock the National Strategic stock piles the past 3 years, even though they were advised to do such, by the previous administration who had completed an analysis of a pandemic simulation exercise in Oct 2016 that showed the shortages on PPE protective gear and equipment....

Everyone involved were negligent, state gvts, hospitals and the federal gvts pandemic preparedness teams.

I see you ignore the ventilators immediately. Then say its every ones fault.
Where was your Obama after the first in 09?? Ebola?? No masks.... I hate this not seeing the likability ratio. I have never answered you. You were about 25%. That tells me all I need to know.

Are you one those types that had a crappy boss rule your life, then come here and kick the dog?
the responsibility goes first to state and local governments
Dewine was the one who got the ball rolling for states and local, while Cumo was sitting on his ass F bitching.

16,000 ventilators at a good price.
 
The man was warned in 2015 and the best he could do was hand it off to a task-force. Which in turn made all sorts of excuses. Now Cuomo is whimpering about the lack of ventilators of which e was warned about 5-years ago. And seeks to blame someone else when all he has to do is look into any mirror to see where the blame lies.



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After learning that the state's stockpile of medical equipment had 16,000 fewer ventilators than New Yorkers would need in a severe pandemic, Gov. Andrew Cuomo came to a fork in the road in 2015. He could have chosen to buy more ventilators. Instead, he asked his health commissioner, Howard Zucker to assemble a task force and draft rules for rationing the ventilators they already had.

That task force came up with rules that will be imposed when ventilators run short. Patients assigned a red code will have the highest access, and other patients will be assigned green, yellow or blue (the worst) depending on a "triage officer's" decision. In truth, a death officer. Let's not sugarcoat it. It won't be up to your own doctor.

Cuomo could have purchased the additional 16,000 needed ventilators for $36,000 apiece or a total of $576 million in 2015. It's a lot of money but less than the $750 million he threw away on a boondoggle "Buffalo Billion" solar panel factory. When it comes to state budget priorities, spending half a percent of the budget on ventilators is a no brainer.

Now the pandemic is actually here. Cuomo's grim reaper rules will be applied. New York City's deputy commissioner for disease control Demetre Daskalakis is anticipating "some very serious difficult decisions." So far, in New York City, 1 out of every 4 people with a confirmed case has been hospitalized, and 44% of them have needed a ventilator.

The task force claimed there was no point in buying ventilators because there's also a shortage of doctors and nurses trained to use them. Five years ago, that problem could have been fixed, too. Even now, the National Disaster Medical System can send staff to hot spots like New York.

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