dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

NY Gov. Cuomo Said No To Buying Thousands Of Ventilators In 2015 For P******c; Here’s What He Did Instead

Pelosi and Co. are still trying to slip parts of the Green New Deal into the stimulus. The left never gives up and will never stop so we must remain always vigilant.

(Tea Party 247) – The massive spread of the c****av***s has turned the entire world upside down and has left destruction wherever it has landed. Not just with a person’s physical health, but with the health of the economy as well, putting tons of people out of work due to illness, quarantine, and self-isolation measures meant to flatten the curve of infection and prevent overload at the hospital.

Liberals have been using this particular outbreak as a political weapon against President Trump, ripping him apart for his response to the p******c, stating he’s not been adequately prepared. However, it seems the real individual who ought to be getting raked over the coals is New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Here’s why.



Via Gateway Pundit:

Life comes at you fast, as the saying goes, or as the case may be in this era of a v***l p******c, 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 p******c. 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 p******c crisis. Now with the C****-** Chinese c****av***s overwhelming New York hospitals, Cuomo is begging for ventilators.

So Cuomo had an opportunity to ensure the state of New York had supplies that would have helped prevent the spread of a disease like the c****av***s and didn’t take it. Where is all of the criticism of this poorly made decision? Why aren’t l*****t news media folk tearing him a new one over this?

Is this once again a case of being on the “correct side” of a political ideology earning someone a free pass? More than likely.

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 p******c, 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 t***h, 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 p******c 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…

Just before the v***s started tearing up New York, the NY Times reported on Februrary 27 about a shortage of ventilators and the rationing plan that included a lottery.

This is what Cuomo’s bad decision resulted in, ladies and gentlemen:

Across New York, there were 7,241 ventilators in acute care settings, and another 1,750 stockpiled for use in an emergency, according to a 2015 state report. The report noted that the supply of ventilators would be inadequate for a p******c on the scale of the 1918 flu outbreak.

The task force that issued the report devised a formula, relying partially on medical criteria, to help hospitals decide who would get ventilators and who would not. It also envisioned a lottery system in some instances. And age could play a role, with children being given preference over adults.

As if that’s not enough to enrage you, check out his comments concerning how many ventilators the state will need to combat the spread of the v***s via an appearance he made on CNN March 19:

Cuomo: “That’s the war time mentality. You can’t buy a ventilator right now. Globally, you can’t buy them. We’re going to have to make them or make something like them. And that’s why the federal government is stepping up and ordering the manufacturers to now come together and make this happen is going to be imperative.”


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“That’s the war time mentality,” @NYGovCuomo says on Trump invoking the Defense Production Act to expand production of hospital masks and more amid c****av***s.
The need for the federal government to step up and order manufacturers to make this happen is “imperative,” he adds.


Just this past Friday Cuomo, speaking to reporters, said, “It’s ventilators, ventilators, ventilators. That is the greatest need.”

Seriously?

This man had the opportunity to ensure his state was stockpiled and prepared for just such an emergency and screwed the pooch. He needs to be held accountable for his failure, but the media is too busy aiming all of their energy at President Trump.

Cuomo will likely get a pass from the mainstream media and that’s tragic.

http://thegatewaypundit.com/2020/03/ny-gov-cuomo-rejected-buying-recommended-16000-ventilators-in-2015-for-p******c-established-death-panels-and-lottery-instead/

PeterS

Snip>>>President Donald Trump quoted Gateway Pundit conspiracy blogger Jim Hoft during a Fox News town hall to falsely claim that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo refused to purchase 16,000 ventilators in 2015, when no such purchase was considered or offered.
What I love about this is that Trump gets his news from an unvetted conspiracy theory blogger but refers to mainstream news, which is vetted, as f**e news!

Weewillynobeerspilly Loc: North central Texas

Spend less time worrying about Trump, and more time worrying about what Dallas is going to do with all them Mescans and darkies......The second tortillas and weave glue run out, that s**thole City of Dallas will burn like last years fireworks.

tommsteyer

that's why Cuomo has been holding daily press conferences. he asked for 50,00o ventilators and called New York a "test case".

Cuomo speak with forked tongue.

NYC is the richest city in the nation. with a dozen phone calls Cuomo could raise $40 million for masks. and start the companies to make them up.

but Cuomo seems to think he has the right to commandeer the lions share of federal resources...because the stats make it so.??

Cuomo was saying that the case rate in New York is doubling every three days.

but that's because the density of the population in nyc alters the model. but also, I saw people this last weekend walking around roller blading and walking like nothing is wrong.

that is also a reason that cases have exploded. Cuomo can't expect the government to insulate New York from its poor choices while less well funded cities and states suffer.

test case. not even close.

if New Yorkers didn't gave the brains to come in out of the p******c....

now there are rumors that new yorkers are escaping the case threat traveling out of state....

Geo

Trump slings “death panels” lie at Cuomo — taken from far-right blogs
Betsy McCaughey misreads New York State report from 2015. The Gateway Pundit spreads it — and Trump repeats it.

WRITTEN BY ERIC KLEEFELD

PUBLISHED 03/24/20 4:38 PM EDT


Update (3/24/20): This post has been edited with a further explanation of how Betsy McCaughey likely obtained her numbers from the 2015 state task force report.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been one of many governors appealing to President Donald Trump to use emergency powers under the Defense Production Act to order industries to produce ventilators and other needed supplies for the c****av***s crisis. Just today, Cuomo railed against a promise from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to send 400 ventilator units to the state despite the need for thousands more, thundering at his daily press conference: “You pick the 26,000 people who are going to die because you only sent 400 ventilators.”



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Cuomo expresses outrage at FEMA for sending New York 400 ventilators when it needs at least 30,000: "You pick the 26,000 people who are going to die because you only sent 400 ventilators." https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/c****av***s-disease-c****-**-latest-news-deaths-2020-03-24/ …


But during today’s town hall special on Fox News, Trump held up what he claimed was a report of how Cuomo had negligently failed to buy ventilators for his state years ago — and now the governor was supposedly the one setting up “death panels” for the state’s patients:


PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I watched Gov. Cuomo … He was talking about the ventilators. But he should have ordered the ventilators. And he had a choice, he had a chance because right here, I just got this out, that he refused to order 15,000 ventilators. I’ll show this to Bill [Hemmer]. Take a look at that, Bill, what does that say?

TRUMP: This says New York Gov. Cuomo rejected buying recommended 16,000 ventilators in 2015 for the p******c -- for a p******c -- established death panels and lotteries instead. So he had a chance to buy in 2015, 16,000 ventilators at a very low price, and he turned it down. I'm not blaming him or anything else, but he shouldn't be talking about us. He’s supposed to be buying his own ventilators.

Neither of Fox’s purported “news”-side anchors in this special, Harris Faulkner or Bill Hemmer, asked Trump to identify exactly what he was talking about or prove the “death panels” charge. In a later segment in the afternoon, Fox chief political anchor Bret Baier commented that Trump had taken that moment to “push back and say the governor could’ve ordered ventilators,” without going into any further details on the specific charges about a number of ventilators or the charge of setting up “death panels.”

However, a review of the actual facts and reports shows that it does not at all appear that there was ever some proposal for Cuomo to buy the number of ventilators he would now need in this extraordinary emergency — and furthermore, Trump has brought this claim up from some of the most disreputable corners of right-wing media.

Judging by the phrasing of Trump’s claim, it appears that he was grabbing this claim directly from the perennially inaccurate right-wing website The Gateway Pundit, which put up a post two days ago with the same headline that Trump read on Fox.

The Gateway Pundit’s post was in turn based on a recent syndicated column by Betsy McCaughey, the former Republican lieutenant governor of New York in the 1990s who also recently appeared in a Fox Nation documentary to declare that “political venom” over Trump's c****av***s response is “more worrisome” than mass panic. (She was previously a frequent right-wing media source for the health care reform debate during the Obama administration and one of the primary pushers of the “death panel” lie.)

Now, in McCaughey’s telling, it’s Cuomo who’s sending a “death officer” to the hospital wards:

After learning that the state's stockpile of medical equipment had 16,000 fewer ventilators than New Yorkers would need in a severe p******c, 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 t***h, 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 p******c is actually here. Cuomo's grim reaper rules will be applied.

The New York Times’ report on the state’s ventilator shortage includes some key facts missing from McCaughey’s narrative. To start with, this state task force to study complex medical care issues was not freshly formed at Cuomo’s behest in 2015, but has actually been around since 1985. Secondly, its report issued in 2015 was itself the product of years of study of the state’s health care infrastructure, not a sudden request by the governor.

McCaughey appears to have formed her own narrative based on the following paragraph in the task force’s report:

New York State has stockpiled 1,750 ventilators to help reduce ventilator need in the face of the moderate scenario; however, there are no current plans to buy enough ventilators for the most severe model. The State’s current approach to stockpiling a limited number of ventilators balances the need to prepare for a potential p******c against the need to maintain adequate funding for current and ongoing health care expenses. Furthermore, severe staffing shortages are anticipated, and purchasing additional ventilators beyond a threshold will not save additional lives, because there will not be a sufficient number of trained staff to operate them. In the event of an overwhelming burden on the health care system, New York will not have sufficient ventilators to meet critical care needs despite its emergency stockpile. If the most severe forecast becomes a reality, New York State and the rest of the country will need to allocate ventilators and other scarce resources.

There are also no mentions in either the task force’s report or the Times’ article about an alleged “chance” to purchase 16,000 ventilators, or what the price would have been. Moreover, a search for key terms in the report does not appear to even indicate what the magic number of appropriate units for the state to generally own might be — only a listing of what the state did have available, and an acknowledgment that this would not be enough for the most severe p******c models.

What the report did contain was this: In a “moderate” flu p******c model — similar to the outbreaks of 1957 and 1968 — the state would have a projected surplus of 572 ventilators in a peak week of demand. But in a “severe” p******c model, based on the 1918 flu, there would be a projected shortfall of 15,783 ventilators in a peak week of demand. It appears that McCaughey seized upon this latter figure, while also jumbling up the timeline of how this was even determined in the first place. (Indeed, as shown above, the report also acknowledged the reasons why a state couldn’t just own such a large number of ventilators on a regular basis.)

It also seems quite odd for right-wing media and politicians to be bringing back the “death panels” lie — at the same time as many of them (including The Gateway Pundit) are trying to convince the public to let the c****av***s run rampant through society, rather than continue the lockdowns and government economic controls.

lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

You don't remember the 2014 e******n cycle and Ebola do you. Go back and look and you'd swear it was today.

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

It appears one slipped through. Still a lot of controversy over who said what and did what when. I don't necessarily blame Cuomo, if this story is true, that he didn't use the opportunity to stockpile ventilators. We live in the age of 'just-in-time' supply lines. If he didn't buy the ventilators, someone surely must-have. Who? FEMA? Another State?

Does NY have one-half of the cases and deaths from c****av***s in the U.S.? Pretty close. Who to blame? No one, except De Blasio and New Yorkers themselves. This is beginning to look like Escape from New York.