Link – Governor to take ventilators for NYC as hospitals buckle

Now Cuomo jumps in the seize-it bus, and throws property rights under it.

NEW YORK (AP) — With coronavirus deaths climbing rapidly in New York, the governor announced Friday he will use his authority to take ventilators and protective gear from private hospitals and companies that aren’t using them, complaining that states are competing against each other for vital equipment in eBay-like bidding wars.

“If they want to sue me for borrowing their excess ventilators to save lives, let them sue me,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said.

There is a proper response when someone tries to steal your life-saving equipment, however that response does not involve suing them.

4 thoughts on “Link – Governor to take ventilators for NYC as hospitals buckle”

Does this action define the term “slippery slope ” ? If demand emerges at local/private hospital and then they are unable to respond to due to “confiscation” by big city hospitals …

Nero Decree. If I can’t have it, neither can you.

VT on April 7, 2020 at 6:12 PM said:

Just like in the ghetto

When “rule of law” is nothing more than an up-or-down vote.

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