De Blasio urges 'nationalization' of key industries, calls coronavirus outbreak a 'war-like situation'
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is arguing that the best way to tackle the coronavirus outbreak is for the federal government to take over critical private companies in the medical field and have them running 24 hours a day.
The mayor, who made multiple media appearances over the weekend, said that the current situation calls for drastic measures which include nationalizing certain industries.
“This is a case for a nationalization, literally a nationalization, of crucial factories and industries that could produce the medical supplies to prepare this country for what we need,” de Blasio told MSNBC’s Joy Reid on Saturday, calling for “24/7 shifts” during what he called a “war-like situation.”
The following day, de Blasio reiterated this message, telling CNN that “the federal government needs to take over the supply chain right now.” He specified the need for companies that make ventilators, surgical masks, and hand sanitizers to be taken over and made to work around the clock.
New York state already has started producing hand sanitizer in response to shortages and price gouging.
The city itself has also taken drastic steps to deal with the crisis, forcing restaurants to limit themselves to takeout and delivery service, and closing many establishments to prevent the spread of the virus through crowds.
The mayor predicted that coronavirus will continue to be a problem “for at least six months.”
Sunday evening, it was announced that New York City schools will be shutting down until at least April 20, a measure de Blasio previously had resisted, despite facing pressure to do so.
I wonder if Comrade De Blasio has New York prisoners working 24/7 to create his hand sanitizers?
Welcome to the gulag citizen...
We need everyone to see this. This is the man elected Mayor of the nation's largest city.
What is with these New York mayors ? Company confiscations? Let old people die? Farmers lack brain matter? SMH
This one is the stand out. I have serious concerns for the nation knowing such people somehow get elected. There was a time when we never even worried about that.
I never worried prior to 2016.
I'm just the opposite. After Nov 2016, I began sleeping sound & secure again!
Just a radical thought. Test Run?
I don't know anyone who has this virus or even a cold.
This is nuts.
It is NOT nuts.
My niece (who is pregnant for the first time with twins) someone where she works is in quarantine.
A person who works at my work (their relative is in quarantine, should know the results today) so the entire floor this person works on did not have to come in today (the building I work in has 13 floors)
Just because it hasn't come close to you stop thinking the rest of us are nuts.
I was due to go in to the hospital on Friday for an Endoscopy and that has now been rescheduled until April 13th.
It is nuts. 53 confirmed cases in my state, out of millions of residents and no fatalities. Doubt anyone knows anyone with this virus.
Maybe for your area it isn't nuts, but for mine I think we have gone to the extreme.
Hope you and your family stay well.
Thank you.
I know it's going to get worse before it gets better.
I feel for the people who work in the bars/restaurants, they are the ones that will be hurt the most.
Still waiting on what my firm is planning, but if they close down (our Toronto office is already closed and people are working remotely from home) we will be paid, and some of us (staff wise) might have to work remotely from home...I may be one of them.
The closest I came to knowing anyone that might get it is the wife of one of my support group members. She had gone to China to visit family just before the shit hit the fan. She self quarantined but is fine three weeks later.
I agree that the whole thing is being blown up by the media and the TDS sufferers, as we have seen, are having a field day with it. But COVID=19 is a thing and will have to run its course. It's amazing the shit being spewed by people who's opinions I used to respect.
Does that include you know who?
Yes, he died yesterday.
Atlas shrugged.
to be taken over and made to work around the clock.
“24/7 shifts”
Anyone up for some forced labor for the good of the nation?
I'm not joking, he actually has prisoners making his hand sanitizer, If its anything like Michigan they probably make 50 cents a day.
I earned about a buck an hour when I was in and it gave me money to hit the canteen with every month. Should they just go back to making license plates?
Just read a local public health advisory for my county of about 100k.
We have zero reported cases of people infected by this virus which is a great thing. So far so good. Schools are still closing for three weeks starting today. You can't buy hand sanitizer, toilet paper or Potatoes, etc anywhere ....... crazy
That said i do view some of the precautions being taken as a good thing to help insure a lower infection rate. The real acid test will be how fast restrictions are removed if the infection rate remains low.
Lol I got a buddy who was in Meijer last Friday and he was laughing about the pallets of TP by the entry doors, I asked him if he got some and he said no he goes shopping on Sunday and he will get it then and wasn't feeding into the hysteria.....Guess who needs TP
Lol ... i had just gotten one of those Costco mega packs like the month before.
Perhaps i should be selling it by the sheet ......
At least someone here on this seed has a grasp of epidemiology......Kudos!
The CDC hopes they are wrong about all of this. At the same time they want to push stubborn people in the right direction to everyone's benefit, just in case they are right on the data.
So many here on this seed look like they are getting their talking points from Breitbart which is beyond scary.
No the talking points are from De Blasio who thinks we should confiscate companies, [deleted]
Fox said it...… De Blasio didn't.
Show me a direct quote where he made such a statement related to the virus, otherwise, stop lying!
Fox used a direct quote. I would suggest De Blasio sue them if it wasn't true.
I'm sure people that get there talking points from CNN and MSNBC will be able to stay clueless as to what he said.
What is funny is he said it first on MSNBC then CNN but neither one reports on it that I can find. Hillaryious.
Here is a Video but I'm sure it was doctored By some right-wing conspirator, grab your tin foil hat....
Swing and a miss again [deleted!]
You said:
"No the talking points are from De Blasio who thinks we should confiscate companies, Comrade."
De Blasio said:
“the federal government needs to take over the supply chain right now.”
Two very different things! Stop stirring shit up just because you want to.
People with common sense know what nationalization of companies means. De Blasio's words not mine.
Wonder who he is going to force to work 24/7 ? What think you, [deleted?]
nationalization
[ˌnaSH(ə)nələˈzāSHən, ˌnaSH(ə)nəˌlīˈzāSHən]
NOUN
the transfer of a major branch of industry or commerce from private to state ownership or control.
"the nationalization of the railroads"
One of the world's leading fragrance manufacturers (I forget which one) is now turning their attention to making sanitizer. With more and more people not going out, smelling purdy is not paramount. Cleanliness is.
Gov Whitmer just ordered all bars and restaurants to close in Michigan by 3PM today. This is beyond insanity. Never seen anything like this in my life. And to Jim's point at #2. I don't know personally of a single person who has it. Not even on social media.
Yep, it is getting cra-cra to be sure.
Curfews will be next...
Neither do I, but our hospitals in the area are beginning to fill and 2 local docs are in critical condition from treating people, so someone has it.
Not sure what happened but that wasn't my quote in 5.4.1 .... although i agree as i don't know anyone who has it either. Otherwise our county would not be zero verified infected so far
Both Biden and Sanders used that term last night, too.
Anything to grow government control and consolidate power to the Fed.
Means more booty for them to plunder
Andrew Cuomo (NY Gov) is on TV right now, saying that "state control" isn't working and the federal gov't is allowing "chaos" across the country. He, too, is saying that the federal government should control everything - bars, schools, restaurants, parks, malls, casinos, gyms, libraries, etc.
The only chaos we are seeing here is in the toilet paper aisle .....
That is a misrepresentation of what he is saying. He is saying that the states should all have the same standards so that the same protocols are being done. Otherwise, people will shop for the state they like and that will cause further chaos.
You must be watching a different NY Governor Cuomo than I am.
Here's why ...
I can just put up the video and let people decide. He is being calm and measured.
It isn't working in his state, as usual the New Yorkers think they are the only ones that exist in the US and everyone should bend to their needs.
Gee kind of like I use direct quotes from De Blasio but you agree I'm a liar.
Please feel free to do whatever you wish.
Somewhat, but anyone who is carefully listening knows differently.
She nailed it... You did lie in 5.3.1 because you didn't use the direct De Blasio quote.
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Please make sure that you quote Cuomo saying that if bars/restaurants are closed in Manhattan, people will just go to the Bronx or Long Island.
No state, including NYS, should need to rely upon the federal government to control/monitor the social behavior of citizens of its counties, cities, and towns in this situation.
What you posted was correct Loki.... Kudos.
Surprised none of our liberal friends have posited that...........................
Many on the left, including MSM, would call that "martial law" if Trump did it. Heck - Biden, Sanders, Cuomo, and De Blasio all want some form of federal military intervention into the states, because according to them, "this is war".
Perhaps you should watch the MSNBC video KD posted in 5.3.3 . In it, you'll see De Blasio saying what you're accusing KD of lying about.
Nice try. But that is what mail in ballots are for.
Trump put the creep in creepy.
Biden put the sniff in hair sniffer ....
the federal government will never have that much power over the states.
people have been doing that forever. it is called voting with one's feet. if people don't like a state government.. they leave and go to one they like.
making all states the same is very short-sighted as that would not allow the laboratories of democracy to experiment and people to choose how they are governed.
"This is a case for a nationalization, literally a nationalization, of crucial factories and industries"
Bernie's calling "Moscow" right now, to let them know about the good news !
His "Promotion" is in the mail.
I heard today that an auto plant is now building ventilators in lieu of cars help out.
LOL.
. sorry, none of that socialist bs is going to fly.
cheers