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2020-05-25 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

$21 Million Brooklyn Field Hospital Closes After Treating Zero Patients

[PJ] A field hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y., built to deal with the coronavirus has been closed without treating a single patient. The $21 million facility was part of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s response to the growing number of coronavirus patients at New York City hospitals. That response included smaller facilities at the Billie Jean King Tennis Center and Stony Point (Long Island), and a huge, 1,100-bed medical center at the Javits Center.

All told, the state spent upwards of $350 million on facilities that were built but never used.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-25 01:38|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top

#1 Keep them around for second wave?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-25 01:52|| 2020-05-25 01:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Incidentally, according to worldometers, # of active cases in NY is on the rise.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-25 01:59|| 2020-05-25 01:59|| Front Page Top

#3 Meanwhile he sent people known to be infected with the virus to nursing homes.
I find it hard to believe they didn't intend for the virus to spread there.

Posted by CrazyFool 2020-05-25 02:09|| 2020-05-25 02:09|| Front Page Top

#4 That's the problem with people like this, CF. They never intend the damage they cause. They simply don't have brains that can conceive of Universe not fallowing their intentions.
If only "people like this" were exclusive attribute of the left.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-25 02:21|| 2020-05-25 02:21|| Front Page Top

#5 Ref #3: I find it hard to believe they didn't intend for the virus to spread there.

Nor can I. Frail old people and the young who are susceptible to childhood diseases, huddled closely together in medically ill-equipped camps (nursing homes) do not weather illness and disease very well. 'Settled Science' I would have thought, unless political motives are in play.

"The most effective method of limiting the endurance of the guerrillas... "
~ Lord Kitchener (1899-1902)

Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-25 06:19|| 2020-05-25 06:19|| Front Page Top

#6 But think of the $avings!

/Bloomberg

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-05-25 10:28|| 2020-05-25 10:28|| Front Page Top

#7 They were just "listening to the science"....

Posted by Clem 2020-05-25 10:52|| 2020-05-25 10:52|| Front Page Top

#8 Well, of course they were. It was settled.

Posted by Fred 2020-05-25 22:05|| 2020-05-25 22:05|| Front Page Top

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