Heard a couple today suggesting that was Joe Biden’s continuing metal declined Democrats may be looking for a savior at the convention.
Governor Cuomo is getting a lots and lots of prayers for his response to the outbreak.
However a few years ago when we had the SARS epidemic he was given an opportunity to buy 1500 ventilators for the state and refuse to, instead he established criteria that amount to a death panel who would decide who got care and who didn’t for the available ventilators.
Somehow I don’t think he’s the savior of the democratic party for 2020.
You can fast-forward to the point where President Trump is speaking where this is discussed in the town hall
Just a few months ago democratic candidates were
piling on Biden in the debates on his memory loss joking about it to the crowds laughter, fast forward a few 100 interview memory lapses later … he’s fine.
And 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, but — take a look at that, Bill. What does that say?
Q Is this social distancing here? (Laughs.)
Q Go ahead and read it to us.
THE PRESIDENT: This says that New York Governor Cuomo rejected buying recommended 16,000 ventilators in 2015 for the pandemic — for a pandemic; established death panels and a 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. We’re going to help.