NYC health head re: NYPD mask plea: 'I don't give 2 rats' asses about your cops'

The New York Police Department requested half a million surgical masks to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. But the city's health commissioner, Dr Oxiris Barbot's response to their request to the high ranking police official was "I don't give two rats' asses about your cops."

Barbot made the disgusting and heartless remark in a phone conversation in late March to NYPD Chief Terence Monahan. She said that she could only provide them with 50,000 masks, one-tenth of what they needed. 

“I don’t give two rats’ asses about your cops,” Barbot said, in spite of the increased numbers of cops calling out sick with COVID-19 symptoms,  “I need them for others.”

There have been 5,490 Chinese Communist Wuhan Coronavirus cases among the 55,000 cops and civilians on the force. Of these, 41 have died, according to Wednesday night figures.

As it turns out, it was learned that the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene had a huge number of masks, ventilators and other equipment stored in a New Jersey warehouse, so the request could have been fulfilled and possibly made a difference in the number of NYPD deaths.

The department appealed to City Hall, which finally arranged for the NYPD to get 250,000 surgical masks, sources said.

The federal Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency also learned about the situation, leading FEMA to supply the NYPD with Tyvek suits and disinfectant. So, while the city and state failed the NYPD, the Trump administration came through, rats' asses be damned.

A source who was present during a tabletop exercise at the city Office of Emergency Management headquarters in Brooklyn in March recalled witnessing a “very tense moment” when Monahan complained to Mayor Comrade Bill de Blasio in front of Barbot about the NYPD’s need for personal protective equipment, saying, “For weeks, we haven’t gotten an answer.”

Comrade De Blasio, who was seated between Monahan and Barbot, asked her, “Oxiris what is he talking about?” a source told the New York Post.

When Monahan said the gear was vital to keeping cops safe, de Blasio said, “You definitely need it,” and told Barbot, “Oxiris, you’re going to fix this right now,” the source said.

Last week, Dr. Barbot was noticeably absent from the useless coronavirus daily briefings when Comrade de Blasio announced that the city’s public hospital system would oversee a major testing and tracing program, even though the DOH has previously run similar programs.

De Blasio praised NYC Health and Hospitals Dr. Mitchell Katz.  “When you have an inspired operational leader, you know, pass the ball to them is my attitude.”

The incompetent de Blasio appointed Barbot as the NYC health commissioner in 2018 following the resignation of Dr. Mary Bassett, during an investigation into the DOH's failure to alert federal officials to elevated levels of lead in the blood of children living in city housing projects. She has now gone on to work at Harvard to fail there.

DOH press secretary Patrick Gallahue tried to defend the vulgar remarks and disposition of Barbot.

“During the height of COVID, while our hospitals were battling to keep patients alive, there was a heated exchange between the two [Barbot and Monahan] where things were said out of frustration but no harm was wished on anyone,” Gallahue said, apparently able to read Barbot's mind. He added that Barbot "apologized for her contribution to the exchange."

Contribution to the exchange? That's a politically correct way of saying 'for her hateful, mean-spirited bile.'

Wanna bet she's a progressive?

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