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2020-04-05 Home Front: Politix
De Blasio: I told the Pentagon "a week ago" to give me "1,000 nurses, 150 doctors, 300 respiratory therapists" and "I'm still waiting"
[Twitter] HT: AoS
Listening to the audio, he may have said [he'd] "...have asked the President and The Pentagon over a week ago...", but y'all be the judge.

In any case, I've yet to see Mr. Wilhelm demonstrate an appreciation for how a "federation of states" works. Maybe that's "Prog" thing.
Posted by Anomalous Sources 2020-04-05 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11136 views ]  Top

#1 Shouldn't his request have gone to Cuomo first?
Posted by Rambler in Virginia  2020-04-05 00:43||   2020-04-05 00:43|| Front Page Top

#2 Delusions of grandeur via Mayor Putz
Posted by Lex 2020-04-05 00:50||   2020-04-05 00:50|| Front Page Top

#3 He sounds like the Federal Government simply keeps nurses, doctors, and therarsit stored in a warehouse somewhere. Stacked like cordwood to be used only in case of an emergency.
Posted by CrazyFool 2020-04-05 00:52||   2020-04-05 00:52|| Front Page Top

#4 I think the president did, he send the hospital ship USNS Comfort to NYC. Last I heard, the ship only has 20 patents.
Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2020-04-05 01:11||   2020-04-05 01:11|| Front Page Top

#5 This fucking idiot called the General helpline and said this and hung up.
Posted by newc 2020-04-05 02:00||   2020-04-05 02:00|| Front Page Top

#6 Get rid of this democrat shit if you prefer something real, whatever you are.
Posted by newc 2020-04-05 02:01||   2020-04-05 02:01|| Front Page Top

#7 I repeatedly told Bibi to give me a million Swiss Franks, I'm still waiting.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-05 03:17||   2020-04-05 03:17|| Front Page Top

#8 I know where he can get some blow-up nurses, but they're probably used.
Posted by gorb 2020-04-05 04:07||   2020-04-05 04:07|| Front Page Top

#9 ^😂
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-05 04:22||   2020-04-05 04:22|| Front Page Top

#10 :Heh: People always want more than they need when someone else pays the bills.
Posted by magpie 2020-04-05 07:42||   2020-04-05 07:42|| Front Page Top

#11 Maybe De Blasio should work with Governor Cuomo to get these things. As Trump said, it is not up to the federal government to supply all these things. There is too much reliance on the Feds for everything.
Posted by JohnQC 2020-04-05 08:07||   2020-04-05 08:07|| Front Page Top

#12 #8 - Now you're in Skidmark Territoryâ„¢
Posted by Frank G 2020-04-05 08:24||   2020-04-05 08:24|| Front Page Top

#13 Ref #8:I know where he can get some blow-up nurses, but they're probably used.
Posted by gorb

Shortness of breath? Your mileage may vary.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-05 08:32||   2020-04-05 08:32|| Front Page Top

#14 Surprised Billy Boy didn't place a call to his Cuban of Venezuelan friends. Or, maybe he did!
Posted by Clem 2020-04-05 08:35||   2020-04-05 08:35|| Front Page Top

#15 Should have thought of that before telling everyone to just go out and party a month and a half ago.

Now shut the fuck up.
Posted by DarthVader 2020-04-05 09:27||   2020-04-05 09:27|| Front Page Top

#16 And going to the gym.
Posted by Clem 2020-04-05 09:35||   2020-04-05 09:35|| Front Page Top

#17 DeBlasio on March 10:

"Sure. We - look. We are - we have the biggest public health capacity of any city in America, and we have been employing it now for weeks and weeks in anticipation of this. I am very, very concerned, like every other mayor in America, but I do want to put in perspectives - you know, as of now, 36 cases against the backdrop of a city of 8.6 million people. So we do expect a substantial increase in number of cases, but we also know that this is a disease that - for the vast majority of people who get it, it will have a minor impact on them."

Link.
Posted by Matt 2020-04-05 09:59||   2020-04-05 09:59|| Front Page Top

#18 So Hizzoner was trying to control the panic, and he probably got hammered for trying to be calm and rational, so he set his hair on fire.
Posted by Bobby 2020-04-05 12:10||   2020-04-05 12:10|| Front Page Top

#19 Was he wearing his General’s uniform covered in self awarded medals when he called the Pentagon?
Posted by Airandee 2020-04-05 16:30||   2020-04-05 16:30|| Front Page Top

#20 ^Not Field-marshal's?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-05 16:33||   2020-04-05 16:33|| Front Page Top

#21 
'Send Nudes' didn't work for the good chaps in the trenches, what makes him think he's special ?
Posted by Dron66046 2020-04-05 16:38||   2020-04-05 16:38|| Front Page Top

#22 Warren Wilhelm (real birth name) has been a fake, fraud, commie POS all his life. He Peter-Principaled into the Mayor spot and has proven his lack of worth
Posted by Frank G 2020-04-05 17:00||   2020-04-05 17:00|| Front Page Top

#23 Seems the 'models' are starting to fall down. From the link:

In New York, the IMHE model predicted that as of yesterday, 50,962 people would have been hospitalized as of yesterday due to the Coronavirus. The actual number? 18,368.
Posted by Bobby 2020-04-05 17:02||   2020-04-05 17:02|| Front Page Top

#24 You know buttercup, /YOU/ don't tell the Pentagon anything. You tell either the governor or your disaster preparedness officer liaison.
Posted by Silentbrick 2020-04-05 18:22||   2020-04-05 18:22|| Front Page Top

#25 VENTILATOR ALLOCATION GUIDELINES
New York State Task Force on Life and the Law
New York State Department of Health
November 2015
Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-05 19:09||   2020-04-05 19:09|| Front Page Top

#26 Now you're in Skidmark Territory

Yep! I'll go wash my brain out with soap and self- quarantine for a couple weeks.
Posted by gorb 2020-04-05 22:21||   2020-04-05 22:21|| Front Page Top

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