Mayor de Blasio still hasn't spoken to Health Commissioner about '2 rats' asses'

Barbot holds 2 rats' asses in her hand

New York City Democrat Mayor, Comrade Bill de Blasio [aka Warren Wilhelm] claims that he hasn’t spoken to  the city's Health Commissioner Dr. Oxiris Barbot for several of days since making the remark that she doesn't "give two rats' asses about your cops" after they requested 500 thousand protective face masks to deal with the COVID-19 crisis in the city.

De Blasio claims he will speak with her over the weekend, but he often says one thing and does another, like the time he violated his own rule that folks should stay home unless they absolutely must go out, and then he went from Manhattan to his Brooklyn gym and also had gone to Prospect Park in Brooklyn at a later date for a walk with his wife.

Barbot's words about the NYPD are disgusting and inexcusable and with an attitude like hers, one cannot justify why she should remain in her position.  The NYPD have been and continue to be first responders directly involved with the public and among those most at risk. As of just a few days prior to this post, there have been 31 NYPD deaths from Covid-19. 

Barbot's insensitivity should be rewarded with a pink slip but de Blasio was never a big fan of the police so it's likely he will merely give her a symbolic slap on the wrist along with a wink and a nod.

The NYPD requested the 500 thousand masks back in March but Barbot said she could only offer 50 thousand, one tenth of what they needed. This was when she made her now infamous "I don't give two rats' asses" statement about "your cops, I need them for others," to Terence Monahan, NYPD Chief of Department.

The department eventually got 500,000 masks from the Department of Health’s stash after appealing to City Hall, no thanks to Barbot.

The cop unions are calling for her firing. Pat Lynch of the Police Benevolent Association also suggests she has to “look in the eye of every police family who lost a hero to this virus. Look them in the eye and tell them they aren’t worth a rat’s ass,” he said.

Barbot owes every one of the 55,000 cops and the families and loved ones of those who died from COVID-19 a public apology . . . and then she should be handed her walking papers.

If de Blasio can go days without talking to Dr. Barbot during the pandemic, how essential can she be?

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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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