Indeed…Heckuva Job Covidiot Trump…10 out of 10 INCOMPETENCE = Criminal Negligence!
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I have the feeling that ship will be viewed as Trump’s Titanic.
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Unfortunately the USN only has two Hospital Ships, the USNS Comfort and the USNS Mercy. It’d be interesting to see how they cope with future requirements though. It’ll probably be more of FEMA and the Army’s engineers creating temp hospitals.
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They just erected a field hospital in Central Park.
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Chicago’s McCormick Place, which bills itself as ‘‘the largest and most flexible use convention center in North America,’’ is going to be made into a 3,000-bed field hospital.
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drump always has to be forced to do the something right (mainly when he see’s it hurting him on TV), so many things that should of and could of been done back at the start of the year.
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Comfort is supposed to be on 5-day readiness accorgint to US Navy standars. White House should have known Feb 1 that ship would be needed. It is great to have it in NYC, but it is two weeks or more late. Comfort has been late before.
Sat event was pure PR set-up for the President. I followed the ship using a vessel tracking app. Comfort circled around last night to time it arrival in NY for 10:00 AM press event. But, the fact that this ship could not sail in 5 days is a scandal. But Tea Party just does not want to pay for readiness and anything not needed yesterday, and we all pay for this. Elmhurst would not have been overwhelmed this week iif Comfort had been in port two weeks ago. Sad
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The one in Central Park is in addition to the gigantic one at the Javits Center on the West side, in what used to be called Hell’s Kitchen.
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Here’s a crappy story of greed from Philadelphia.
A hospital with room for nearly 500 beds has been closed for months in the center of Philadelphia, a city bracing for the spread of the coronavirus and a crush of sick patients.
But the facility will remain empty, city officials said, because they cannot accept the owner’s offer: buy the hospital or lease it for almost $1 million a month, including utilities and other costs.
“We don’t have the need to own it nor the resources to buy it. So we are done and we are moving on,” Mayor Jim Kenney told reporters on Thursday during the city’s daily briefing.
The next day, he said that Temple University would let the city use a music and sports venue for free. The city would no longer pursue the closed facility, Hahnemann University Hospital.
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A little ray of sunlight…this is good…
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Grifters gotta grift. I bet the ‘owner’ is a friend of Trump Inc.
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"The USNS Comfort, which was sent to New York City after 9/11, will be used to treat non-coronavirus patients while hospitals treat people with COVID-19.
The trick now is keeping the coronavirus from spreading to and throughout the ship.
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I understand four other NYC sites are also being considered, one in each of the other boroughs.
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As an aside that sort of piggybacks on your post, within the past two decades (2003-2018) NYC has closed hospitals for the purposes of using the space for grossly overpriced residential housing.
I know this for a fact because the hospital I was born in (during the 20thC) was turned into luxury condos. Not one of those apts. had my name on it, however.
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Yep. Doubt that will be a successful endeavor.
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I can only assume Jared Kushner is on the board?
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Now see, I’m old enough to remember when this ship was sent to places where the local government and its medical systems were overwhelmed and needed help, unable as they were to care for their own citizens. The people had made bad leadership choices, but still, one tried to help alleviate suffering where possible. It was a nobless oblige kind of thing, since our society was so obviously superior in so many ways.
Of course, that was a long time ago.
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The owner is Joel Freedman, of California. No idea if he’s a friend of Jared.
He has a residence in Phila. in Rittenhouse Square, valued at more than $3 mn.
That’s really all they did in the Javits center. Donald makes it out like they built walls or a building.
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In the Navy’s defense, the ship was undergoing scheduled maintenance. Having said that, the administration should have told them months ago to expedite repairs and prepare for deployment in four to six weeks.
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