I wish I could say I was surprised. But I'm not. The scams uncovered in the next year will strain credulity. They could have sent seniors here instead of nursing homes and the death rate would have been a lot lower, and the panic nationwide could have been affected by it. $21M Brooklyn field hospital never saw a patient amid coronavirus pandemic By Carl Campanile and Natalie Musumeci May 22, 2020 | 6:58pm Enlarge Image The Brooklyn Cruise Terminal in Red HookAP A roughly $21 million Brooklyn field hospital authorized by the de Blasio administration at the height of the coronavirus pandemic opened and closed without ever seeing one patient, according to city officials. The Brooklyn Cruise Terminal in Red Hook was one of several sites across the five boroughs converted into a medical facility as a way to relieve the city’s overburdened hospital system as the COVID-19 crisis mounted. Mayor Bill de Blasio announced plans on Mar. 31 — a day after the USNS Comfort hospital ship arrived in New York Harbor to aid in the coronavirus fight — for the $20.8 million Red Hook field hospital with an estimated capacity for 750 beds. The field hospital was built by Texas-based construction company SLSCO. “They are going to set it up rapidly and we’re then going to go to the next site, the next site, the next site to meet our goal,” de Blasio told reporters of the site during that press conference in which the mayor also outlined the details to turn Queens’ Billie Jean King National Tennis Center into a 350-bed temporary hospital. first reported. SEE ALSO NYC is meeting 2 of 3 thresholds necessary to reopen, de Blasio says “As part of our hospital surge, we expanded capacity at a breakneck speed, ensuring our hospital infrastructure would be prepared to handle the very worst. We did so only with a single-minded focus: saving lives,” de Blasio spokeswoman Avery Cohen told The Post Friday. “Over the past few months, social distancing, face coverings, and other precautionary measures have flattened the curve drastically, and we remain squarely on focused taking that progress even further,” Cohen added. The funding for the Red Hook hospital is expected to be reimbursed by FEMA.
DiBlasio... what a F'n Joke! He's the ultimate Lefty/Commie/DemoCrap POS! (He's even worse than Schumer/Pelosi.... and that's saying something.)
When people find out they have been scammed and scared into losing their jobs, they will be very pissed off. Extreme liberal Democrat governors will see a huge backlash from extreme liberals out of jobs for good. California imploding already with their bogus opening of curbside pickup of toys, books and food? Governor Gavin Newsom is a joke but, it is the extreme liberal Democrats who voted him in who stand to suffer the most. It is going to be very ugly for the extreme liberal states. Antifa and BLM thugs will not play nice.