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DE BLASIO: But in terms of the potential spread, based on the information we have, including from our own cases here in New York City, it still appears to spread under particular conditions.
SHAPIRO: Right.
DE BLASIO: It is not an airborne disease, and we have not seen the kind of indicators that - for example, big outdoor public events are the kind of venue where it would spread. That's why we have not yet made a decision to cancel anything like that.
Trump in his great wisdom established the coronavirus task force at the end of january while democrats were still working on removing him from office with their impeachment.
California had our first case of CV a while back and they are doing a fantastic job of containing it. NYC is like Italy now. I’ve been watching the numbers everyday so I know.
Well, to be fair New York has a much denser population and they ride public transportation. California is much less dense and they tend to have their own cars. I’d say it’s pretty hard to be socially distant in New York.
So much for trumps coronavirus task force he activated in Jan:
“When Wuhan began burning with infections in December, the U.S. government took only illogical, inadequate actions to stop the virus’s spread: It banned foreigners from entering from China, but inconsistently monitored Americans returning from the country. The president laughed off the virus and the Democrats’ response to it, calling it their “new hoax,” which immediately polarized the citizenry’s response to precautionary public-health information. When the sparks of this conflagration hit, Seattle was aflame before anyone at the CDC had started to reach for water.“
So much for trumps coronavirus task force he activated in Jan:
“When Wuhan began burning with infections in December, the U.S. government took only illogical, inadequate actions to stop the virus’s spread: It banned foreigners from entering from China, but inconsistently monitored Americans returning from the country. The president laughed off the virus and the Democrats’ response to it, calling it their “new hoax,” which immediately polarized the citizenry’s response to precautionary public-health information. When the sparks of this conflagration hit, Seattle was aflame before anyone at the CDC had started to reach for water.“
December? Either that was a typo or the author is ignorant. China didn't report it's first infection until Dec 31 and WHO didn't declare it a global health emergency until January 31.
Leadership at the city’s health department threatened to resign over Mayor de Blasio’s mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic, The Daily News learned.
The unrest between the department and City Hall began shortly after New York’s first case of the coronavirus two weeks ago and top health officials threatened to step down as recently as last week, sources said.
At least one deputy commissioner and multiple assistant commissioners in the Health Department warned they would resign over de Blasio’s mismanagement and reluctance to take the advice of doctors in his own administration, according to an agency source.
The threat came while health officials tried to push de Blasio into taking a bolder approach to stop the spread of the potentially deadly virus, including implementing stricter “social distancing” measures, sources said.
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The discontent got “really bad” when the city shifted from treating a few patients to facing a larger crisis with dozens of cases spread across the five boroughs, one source familiar said.
“They’ve disagreed mostly about the slow pace to adapt to information about how quickly this was advancing and how dramatically we had to change our policies to that,” the source said.
The deputy commissioner for disease control at the agency, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, stopped attending public briefings with the mayor last week.
And de Blasio’s relationship with Health Commissioner Dr. Oxiris Barbot has grown “toxic.”
“He’s been yelling at her in meetings in front of other people,” one source familiar said.
Yes, you guys have TDS. When you can’t rebut facts, yell TDS!!!! All good though. This country (well 70%) isn’t stupid. They SEE how trump dropped the ball on this. You guys playing “save face” won’t matter. It’s done. It’s documented. Blame De Blasio, but it’s trump who slept. WE ALL SEE IT, INCLUDING YOU TDS GUYS IN HIS CULT.
Actually, the polling shows most approve of the way Trump is now handling the crisis
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