Some stories out of New York.
The Governor of New York:
A reporter asked Gov. Cuomo what he’d say to New Yorkers who want to go back to work because they’re running out of money, to which he replied, “economic hardship doesn’t equal death”
“You want to go to work? Go take a job as an essential worker” he added https://t.co/BgwoOZsQRy pic.twitter.com/WxGQxtg49p
— CBS News (@CBSNews) April 22, 2020
Did you see that?
He doesn’t care if poor New Yorkers go broke and commit suicide because then only they die. If they go back to work, he, Governor Cuomo, could die and that would be a tragedy. The poors of New York are just non-essential, disposable chaff in the New York machine.
He goes on to gloss over “economic hardship” and “mental stress” are not death. Then, in a blinding display of tone-deafness, he glosses over domestic violence a “bad but not death.”
He fundamentally doesn’t care if the working people of upstate New York overdose, commit suicide, or beat their wives and children to death as long as he and his donors in NYC don’t get sick.
The people of New York have a responsibility to Governor Cuomo not to get him sick, and that’s what is really important. The livelihoods of working-class New Yorkers, not so much.
He says “nothing comes before the public health risk.” He also says that if you are out of work, you are “non-essential.”
Well here are some headlines you never thought you would read in a place like New York.
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People are pulling their own teeth while dentists are on coronavirus lockdown
“Non-essential” workers include doctors, dentists, optometrists, and other medical staff who are not on the front lines of the fight against Coronavirus.
I really, really want someone to track the number of foot amputations that will have to be done once the lockdown ends because diabetics were unable to see podiatrists.
Also the number of mastectomies and hysterectomies that could have been adverted by had chemotherapy and radiation treatments not been delayed for months. Miguel was right in his post. When you get a cancer diagnosis the first thought that screams it’s way through your brain and comes out of your mouth is “get it the fuck out of me now.”
For many people, the cure for Coronavirus is death, or worse, not just because of poverty. But if you end up losing your breasts or feet so that Governor Cuomo doesn’t get sick, your sacrifice will go unnoticed.
But I’m not done yet.
From the New York Post:
NY issues do-not-resuscitate guideline for cardiac patients amid coronavirus
New York state just issued a drastic new guideline urging emergency services workers not to bother trying to revive anyone without a pulse when they get to a scene, amid an overload of coronavirus patients.
While paramedics were previously told to spend up to 20 minutes trying to revive people found in cardiac arrest, the change is “necessary during the COVID-19 response to protect the health and safety of EMS providers by limiting their exposure, conserve resources, and ensure optimal use of equipment to save the greatest number of lives,’’ according to a state Health Department memo issued last week.
Did you have a heart attack? Maybe you went into anaphylactic shock?
It doesn’t matter, 911 has to let you die because you might have Coronavirus and the hospitals in New York City are full.
First responders were outraged over the move.
“They’re not giving people a second chance to live anymore,’’ Oren Barzilay, head of the city union whose members include uniformed EMTs and paramedics, fumed of state officials.\
Oh I bet they fucking are. You know who is going to be even more outraged? The family members who watch the paramedics show up and look at dad lying on the floor and say “Governor Cuomo told us not to shock him, we’re sorry for your loss.”
Understand that this order applies state wide.
In Utica, New York, the hospital furloughed 20% of its workforce.
Cayuga Medical Center in Ithica furloughed 200 workers.
Syracuse regional hospitals furloughed 1,665 workers.
Outside of New York City, hospitals are empty. They are operating below 50% capacity.
Still, Governor Cuomo’s DNR applies to the first responders in those areas too. Have a heart attack in Syracuse and the paramedics are just supposed to write down your time of death instead of taking you to a half-empty hospital with a workforce that has little of anything to do but watch the clock until shift end.
I really, really hope that upstate first responders ignore Governor Cuomo’s order and save lives.
The Governor is treating every acre of New York State like New York City and it’s killing people. It’s killing them with poverty and with terrible medical policy. All because the Governor doesn’t want you to get him sick. So stay home and enjoy your $600 per week in unemployment benefits, you fucking peons.
I expect to start receiving guillotine orders from upstate New York any day now.
The upsetting thing in all this is that people are FOLLOWING THESE ABSURD ORDERS because the gov said so !!!
My son tells me that in NYC, EMS personnel are not allowed to transport pulseless patients. The letter of the order gets followed, or you lose your job.
They get around this when they need to by claiming that the patient had a pulse when the transport began.
Cuomo is renowned for his bad temper and that reporter struck a nerve. Add that to the rest of the sound bites that will ensure that he never becomes President. In his previous runs for re-election, Cuomo refused to do televised debates with his GOP challengers. He won’t be able to do that in 2024 when he runs for President.
The hospitals are overwhelmed with C-V patients? Then why was the USNS Comfort ordered back to Virginia? How come the Javits Center hospital was never fully utilized? Seems like Cuomo JUST WANT’S PEOPLE TO DIE.
The USNS Comfort, the hospital ship that is in New York to help with the crisis isn’t really doing anything. The ship has room for 1,000 patients, but only 64 are actually being treated onboard. The reason for this is that the ship has set strict criteria and documentation requirements, and the bar is so high that the hospitals have stopped trying. The criteria? Each patient:
– must be an adult
– cannot have any mental health history. At all. (1 in 8 Americans is on antidepressants)
– can not be a user of street drugs (1.1 million New Yorkers are regular users of marijuana)
– must have tested negative for COVID for each of the past 7 days
– must arrive with a 5 day supply of all medications. Few hospital administrators want to send a patient out with medication that should be there to help its patients, not patients who went somewhere else.
So this is why the ship is not really making a difference.
It’s worth remembering that 18 USC 241, conspiracy to infringe on Constitutional rights, is a felony that normally carries a 10 year prison sentence.
However, if the crime causes death, then the death penalty applies. The officials responsible for that DNR order need to be charged with capital violation of 18 USC 241.