Comrade de Blasio lets offer slide for free COVID-19 student testing

Dr. Ramon Tallaj with medical assistants
 Heidy Pena and Laura Colon 

The nation's worst big city Mayor Comrade Bill de Blasio has for two months sat on his hands doing nothing about the offer he received to test for COVID-19 for all school kids and teachers for free. All this while educators rush to prepare schools for opening in less than two weeks, while de Blasio is still doing nothing and teachers threaten a sickout over the lack of planned mandatory COVID-19 testing. Maybe this is the mayor's ultimate goal--to change the face of education in the city and hope it moves nationwide.

Since June, the 800,000-patient, 2,500-doctor Somos network explained that it reached out to the Communist mayor five times to offer to set up free testing sites at NYC’s most at-risk public schools. The meetings that were scheduled were canceled and calls were ignored.

Until this week on Wednesday when de Blasio finally did a video chat with the agency.

But not surprisingly, no deal was struck and the impotent mayor still says he doesn't want to mandate testing. He only wants to keep the city, and hopefully the state, and hopefully the country, closed for business in order to increase government dependency and do the Electric Slide over to Marxism.

Dr. Ramon Tallaj, chairman of Somos says on-site testing at schools is a matter of life and death. Somos runs 38 city-supported COVID-19 testing sites and has tested over 325,000 low-income New Yorkers since March.

In an interview with the New York Post, Dr Tallij explained that “[T]he mayor is surrounded by people who do not grasp what is going on. If he opens schools the way he is proposing, parents are going to die.”

It seems as if de Blasio is counting on those parents being Republicans.

At this time, the city’s official plan to reopen schools relies on students and teachers to take responsibility and voluntarily seek out testing at city-run sites and hotbed hospitals.

The Department of Education website states: “If a student or teacher is feeling sick, they are required to stay home and, if their symptoms are consistent with COVID-19, are asked to get tested.”

It's the honor system which works as well as Bernie Sanders did on the commune he got booted from for not working.

Without mandatory testing, warned Tallaj, a specialist in internal medicine, “Fifty-eight percent of the children and their families who have not seen the virus could get infected by the 1 or 2% who are positive with the virus.}

Tallaj added, “The majority of the newly infected children, who do not show symptoms, will go back to their small apartments in poor neighborhoods, potentially infecting their parents and grandparents in our community.”

And we all know that grandparents are the most at risk group along with people with certain medical conditions such as diabetes, hypertension and obesity. Black folks as a group are the most susceptible.

Somos proposes an initial wave of 80 testing sites at public schools in more poor areas, handling 120 to 140 students per day. Tallaj said his 2,500 doctors could eventually test all of the 1.1 million students at all 1,866 DOE schools, but would need financial backing from the city.

Still de Blasio is doing nothing about the situation.

Tallaj believes it's all about money and the mayor is balking at his offer because he wants to do testing in city hospitals, which would keep federal Medicare, Medicaid and FEMA charges with the city. In other words, de Blasio is okay with compromising the safety of the students' parents and grandparents over funding concerns than about human life.

Par for the course of a commie pig like the mayor.

Schools are due to reopen September 10. Tallaj says Somos would provide its doctors to the city gratis and do the testing using its own funds, and would seek reimbursement from the city at a later date for the costs of testing and supplies.

No student or teacher would pay for the tests, he said.

Tallaj wrote to the mayor on August 21, “It is truly unfortunate that … [we] have yet to find a time to schedule our meeting which we agreed upon back in June. Usually when this happens, it means this isn’t a priority for you. Is this fair for me to assume?”

Tallaj also offered to donate 500 telemedicine computers to public schools allowing symptomatic students direct access to their pediatricians and medical charts at school. But the city was also hesitant to accept, according to a Somos spokesperson, citing the bull crap need for legal review.

De Blasio is the Joe Biden of the Big Apple: they both have not been right about any decisions they have made.


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