New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s response to the coronavirus pandemic has been rife with controversy.
Unheeded warnings in the Big Apple hindered city government efforts to contain the illness in March. According to a bombshell New York Times report the following month, more responsive state and local authorities could have halved the death toll in America’s hardest-hit city.
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After weeks of reports of de Blasio sidelining medical experts, NYC Health Commissioner Dr. Oxiris Barbot is resigning. Barbot’s sudden departure seemingly confirms speculation about her dysfunctional relationship with the mayor. (Fox News)
“I leave my post today with deep disappointment that during the most critical public health crisis in our lifetime, that the Health Department’s incomparable disease control expertise was not used to the degree it could have been,” she wrote to de Blasio.
“Our experts are world renowned for their epidemiology, surveillance and response work,” she continued. “The city would be well served by having them at the strategic center of the response not in the background.”
New York health officials have clashed with de Blasio over his decision to take the Health Department’s responsibility for COVID-19 contact tracing and, instead, giving that responsibility to the public hospital system, the Times reported.
Barbot herself recently became embroiled in controversy.
Barbot’s resignation came weeks after reports that she made derogatory comments to an NYPD official while receiving requests for masks to protect the police force from COVID-19.
She allegedly told the high-ranking official, “I don’t give two rats’ a–es about your cops.”
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De Blasio , needs to RESIGN from OFFICE ! IF He doesn’t he will probably see some JAIL TIME. CUOMO,
Needs to do the same EITHER RESIGN or see JAIL TIME.
Cuomo for President, and De Biasio for Vice President
What a combination.
And you could be the court jester
LOL
Both of these morons need to be taken out and Bitch Slapped in Macy’s window twice daily for the rest of their lives !
A combination of Commie, Terrorist A**holes!
Of where? maybe Porto Rica? then they could take AOC on as their Sec. of Treasure.
no port-o-let
Let’s all go party in Chinatown!
NOT
what about friedo?
There’s no cure 4 mental retardation SORRY
Total scum
Neither will resign, or see jail time. Satan protects his own, while they’re of use to him, and when that ceases to be the case, they generally “mysteriously” die…
They need jailtime regardless if they try to resign.
Should’ve happened a long time ago!
Time for Cuomo to get rid of him! Jail time is waiting for you. He is responsible for so many shooting deaths getting rid of the undercover police!
Org deserve to spend a few years in jail.
the people pf NY needs to take these two to the East river and hold them under water for as long as it takes
Wait you would polite the East River ? Don’t you think it’s polluted enough ?
That Nazi POS and his fellow Nazi coumo should be prosecuted for the murders of all the elderly in retirement homes, +/- 8,000 counts! This is one of the worst examples of genocide since The death camps in Germany!
what trash – mayor and governor are worthless trash that need to be prosecuted. Stop investigating trump and get down to the real evil doers.
Dumbo De Blasio and Nursing Home Killer Cuomo both need to be thrown out of office by NYC! A date need to be picked and they be taken to the East River and held under water!
All parking spaces in NY need to be designated for the blind.
Undoubtedly, the blind NYers will re-elect these scum bags so they can suffer more. Then the rest of America is supposed to bail them out.
Dead on…..Especially Di Blasio….his wife probably controls him….just saying….
Awww, I was hoping that he really got punched in his gut!
Both Cuomo, DeIdiot need to be prosecuted for Crimes against Humanity. Every family which lost love-one in nursing home from CORONA aka COVID-19 AKA Wuhan Flu in any state needs to sue its mayor, governer and State Health Commissioner as well as whole state and city goons running the DEAD SHOWS. That includes Neweslini in California, Washington State, Oregon, and others.
Good reason to resign. However in the REAL world she would have been FIRED not retired.
DiBlasio has Muslim ancestry. Usually, thought patterns and lifestyles are generational. I don’t trust him at all. But, I don’t trust any demoncRat. They seem to care more about illegal immigrants before Citizens. Actually, they seem to go Against Our Constitution moreso than not.
Vote straight RED-!!!
TRUMP 2020-!!!
DE-BLOWHARD (deblasio) isn’t his “real” name. It is Warren Wilhelm he “changed” it to sound more like an Italian, and ‘electable” to N.Y city dwellers. Kind of sounds just like “bathhouse barry obunghole” sotoro.
What IS it with these FRAUDS? The time has come to rid this country of these communist FRAUDS, and take it back.
Keep America Safe-!!!
FUND Our Police Forces, Fire Fighters, and EMT’s-!!!
God Bless the USA-!!!
Left NYC, for good. Glad to out. What a shame a citizen can’t walk the streets or ride the subway.
Freighting to be in the big apple.
De Blasio Is the Worst Mayor In NYC History! Useless Buffoon
remember folks when these politicians raise money, at least 80% of it goes to buy ads which keeps liberal media outfits rolling in the money. Not much you can do about it but just remember the money isn’t the point, the truth is.
De Blasio is incompetent; either be design or ineptitude.
Both diblasio and his butt buddy murderer cuomo needs to be gone ASAP !!!!! They are both incompetent fools who cater to wall street buffoons and illegals. They mimic each other in blaming anyone or everyone else for their criminal actions and total stupidity. They should have been gone long ago .
Let’s just flush NYCity and state down the toilet. This is the worst leadership we have ever seen.
DiBlasio has Muslim ancestry and he may still be influenced by his family’s beliefs. Personally, he and his family seem warped a.k.a. leaning in the wrong direction. He and others along these lines need to Put Americans First over and above everyone and everything illegal. Illegal still means “Against the Law,” therefore, the ones permitting illegal activity are equally as guilty as those performing illegal activity. We have many in Our USA Congress who aren’t staying true to American Citizens but are trying to instill a Socialist agenda for America. They seem to be under the influence of G. $oros who fund$ many in the demoncRat party. And, just an FYI … Adam Schiff’s daughter, Melissa, is married to Robert Soros, son of George Soros. Seems like a family funded affair.
That is the most idiotic comment I’ve ever seen…
Can you not see the purpose of moving the tracking to a different organization? He moved it to where HE had control and could make the figures say what he wanted them to say. For all we know, they counted dead people two or three times. The Democrats/communists would do that. They LOVE lies and disinformation. I am surprised she lasted this long. After all,if you work for a true communist, you know that you MUST do absolutely everything you are told.
Where are your papers is this what we want if not stand up ☝for President Donald J Trump let’s re-elect him get rid of the Swamp
DeBozo did NOTHING because of Trump. He HATES Trump and won’t do what Trump says even if it is the right thing to do. Just look at what him and that twit Cuomo did with those who had Covid. They sent them to where the most vulnerable people were given those most at risk a death sentence. He should be charged with MURDER.