A cruel president dismisses a coronavirus-afflicted New York's desperate need for ventilators
We can’t breathe: A cruel president dismisses a coronavirus-afflicted New York’s desperate need for ventilators
Thursday night, a cluelessly cruel President Trump scoffed at Gov. Cuomo’s urgent, evidence-based pleas for thousands more ventilators to manage a coming surge of coronavirus cases. Hours later, after wasting precious days dragging his feet, Trump seemed to tweet that he might invoke the Defense Production Act to order manufacturers to start making more ventilators, but one never knows with him.
Crisis management in the age of Donald Trump is more about managing Trump than it is about managing the crisis itself.
The president had used Sean Hannity’s Fox News evening show to deliver a cold-blooded message: Despite horrifying growth curves, despite clear scientific projections, he’s got a hunch his home city and state of New York just don’t need the life-saving equipment we’ve been begging and begging and begging for.
“I don’t believe you need 40,000 or 30,000 ventilators,” said the Expert in All Things. “You know, you go into major hospitals sometimes and they’ll have two ventilators. Now all of a sudden they’re saying, ‘Can we order 30,000 ventilators?’ ”
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