Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights might have mostly dodged a bullet with the COVID-19 pandemic.....
BUT JUST BARELY --- Nearby things were much worse..... at times >>> "CRITICAL"
Overall, how well did our local hospitals really do ?????
It's time for somebody to review the performance of our two most local hospitals to the Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights communities, and those other parts of the 43rd Council District serviced by Maimonides Hospital and NYU-Langone Hospital Brooklyn (formerly Lutheran [LMC]).
Everybody would like to believe that we have top notch medical facilities serving our communities, but is it true ???
In the event of another mass medical emergency, like at the height of the COVID-19 upswings in 2020, how would the local medical centers be able function; and would that be enough for the needs of the people of Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights and the other nearby communities ?????
Now >>> why shouldn't our local City Councilman and his GOP-Conservative Party opponent be able to discuss something like that during their upcoming campaigns --- and that IS a rhetorical question.....
Medical issues are a nice diversion. The ONLY issue is justin voting to defund the police. You may think other issues matter but when the PBA sends a hundred cops into bay ridge the voters wont be thinking about climate change.
ReplyDelete345, there's a couple of problems with what you said. Justin Brannan didn't vote to defund the police, he has repeatedly voted to fund the police, and he has done so at levels higher than Marty Golden ever did. As for the PBA, they are just another socialist-minded conspiracy that is shaking down taxpayers just like the UFT and DC-37. Plus don't count on any PBA types helping out Brian Fox any better than they helped out Marty Golden in 2018.
ReplyDeleteJustin voted to reduce police funding by 1 billion dollars. Thats a fact 4:51 a/k/a justin
ReplyDeleteWhy does Justin claim he didnt defund the police?
ReplyDelete732 & 732, here's a few real facts not phony fact like yours. The total police budget was reduced by less than one half billion dollars in the current fiscal year. If Justin claims that he didn't defund the police, he'd be telling the truth, because he didn't. The budget adjustments made during the current fiscal year due to revenue fall offs because of COVID-19 were less to the NYPD than to most other municipal agencies. Most important, I am commenter 451, and I am not named 'Justin' or 'a/k/a justin'.
ReplyDeleteSo why is the PBA against you
ReplyDeleteWhy is the PBA against whom?
ReplyDeleteThe death toll for COVID on Wednesday in NYC was 18 people. The day before it was 12. Its over.
ReplyDeleteMore people died from covid yesterday than attended Brian's fundraiser
ReplyDeleteThe medical response will be critical if justin "mama cass" brannen chokes on a ham sandwich.
ReplyDeleteThere should be no such thing as "the police" or a "police department" when what is needed are different kinds of specialized overall law enforcement agencies operating together with community-based community-controlled policing officers.
ReplyDeleteCommunity control of all city services has long been proposed as a means of improving them. That includes law enforcement and policing services.
The idea of a single city-wide "police department" is something that's over a hundred years old. It was the right answer for turn of the century New York City in 1900, but not in 2021. The New York City Police Department is one of the larger paramilitary organizations in the world and a lot of what it does at great expense, is not done in about 99% of the United States.
Policing needs to be reinvented for the twenty-first century. The best way to reinvent and reform the policing done in New York City is to 'defund" it gradually and properly re-allocate those funds based on the "policing" needs of the city's various communities.
The City of Camden, New Jersey disbanded its dysfunctional police department in 2012-13 crime and rates went down once policing there had been re-invented. New York City is rapidly become the new Camden, and something needs to be done.
I saw Brian Fox at the bank this morning with a few rolls of nickels and Quarters. Things are looking up
ReplyDeleteRESPONSE: THE "WOW ! BUT NOT NOW....." EDITION
ReplyDeleteTO: "ANONYMOUS SAID... AT 12:03 PM" AND ALL THE OTHER POLICE MINDED COMMENTERS ABOVE
LOTS OF STUFF IS GOING ON IN 2021 THAT KEEPS EVERYBODY'S FOCUS ON THINGS LIKE WHO'S FOR OR AGAINST A MOVEMENT TO "DEFUND THE POLICE" --- OR WHETHER IT HELPS THINGS TO MAKE ARGUMENTS LIKE "NYPD LIVES MATTER" OR "BACK THE BLUE"
IN SPITE OF ALL THAT, THERE'S LOTS OF OTHER STUFF HAPPENEING IN THESE TIMES THAT NEED OUR ATTENTION AND THE ATTENTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL CANDIDATES IN 2021
ONE OF THOSE MATTERS IS >>> IN WHAT KIND OF SHAPE ARE THE HOSPITALS IN OUR AREA, ESPECIALLY IN LIGHT OF THE "LESSONS LEARNED" FROM THE COVID-19 CRISIS OF 2020 <<<
Some commenters on this blog want to treat the 2021 City Council race as a single-issue referendum on funding, defunding, or refunding the NYPD. In spite of all their fiery and provocative positioning on that stuff, they are wrong if they think that any City Council race or debate should only deal with one thing. There are other BIG DEAL issues that need to be talked about --- In real life, "LIVES" ain't all about cops'n'robbers, or demonstrations for or against cops, or this that or the other city budget lines for cops.
The main post above was about local hospitals >>> NOT the NYPD or any discussion of local as opposed to city-wide policing and funding.....
Let's hope those people are right, who say that the biggest threat from COVID-19 is behind us. Nonetheless, the darkest days of 2020 showed us that most of the hospitals and medical centers around were NOT PREPARED for a medical emergency on the scale of the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak.
What can we expect from the Maimonides and NYU-Langone Brooklyn hospitals in the event of another large-scale emergency ?????
The Brooklyn GOP had a proper and complete GOP organization well into the mid-90s. Giuliani, Pataki and the Conservative Party worked together to destroy it by 1997. When Eaton showed that he was reviving the GOP party organization in several parts of Brooklyn by 2010, Marty Golden and the Conservatives began to undermine him. In 2011, Eaton's organization embarrassed the Golden faction when they could get nothing going against Eaton's supporters inside the Brooklyn GOP. The most open coup attempt by Golden and the Conservatives against Eaton was in 2013; it also failed miserably. In 2015, Eaton walked away, and Ghorra was appointed by a Democrat judge to run the Brooklyn GOP. Under Ghorra, nothing was done to preserve any of the gains made by Eaton; and by 2018 even Marty Golden wound up losing. By 2020, Marty also pretty much stepped aside, but not before he put holes in all the GOP lifeboats. Now, all Golden does is show up to shoot the survivors in lifejackets working inside the GOP and struggling to keep the party afloat. What do Ray, Georgea, John Q and Jerry Kassar all have in common?
ReplyDeleteI saw Justin Brannen at the food bank this morning. He had a few new rolls of blubber on him.
ReplyDelete2:57 why do you insist on misspelling Brannan's last name in every comment? We all know who you are. Do you think misspelling his name will throw us off the scent?
ReplyDelete2:05 is right, the Brooklyn GOP is a lost cause but it don’t have to be such an embarrassment. Teddie and his leadership team are making the conservatives the number two party in Brooklyn before anybody realize. Ted and his schemers Rae and and Georgina caught off guard by a judge’s decision last week. Somebody’s gotta talk to Marty pronto, they need to find a new puppet and some new puppet managers pulling the strings,
ReplyDeleteI saw bob on the R train this morning. He had a few cold ones on him.
ReplyDelete6:00pm you mean Tabacco off the ballot?
ReplyDeleteA republican named Tobacco. Yeah he really had a shot.
ReplyDeleteAnybody crowing about getting Tabacco off the ballot as if they were the ones who magically “forced” him to file a defective cover sheet must lose more often than Ted and the Brooklyn GOP.
ReplyDeleteThe elephant man who voted to defund the police. Yeah he really has a shot.
ReplyDeleteWhat a cast of characters or should I say, losers. I hope that the Lonestar charged by the Pound because they would make a lot of money that way. But in all seriousness, screenshot Ghorra's outfit - the Blue Blazer and Khakis and brown shoes - his signature outfit and maybe his only outfit - and next time you see him at an event or with a candidate you will see this is the only outfit he has.
ReplyDeleteSomeone above said there were 24 people there. But if you take out the candidates and politicos, I count 8 others. 8 - thats all...8 people is all Ghorra could put together.
Now lets discuss the cast here - from left to right:
a) Nocera, from the famous Nocera tapes. A "young republican" who never became and adult republican who is at the very nest disfunctional in all respects. You MUST see the Nocera tapes which I will post here very soon;
b) Liam - nice guy but not sure who he likes, dislikes, supports or doesnt support - flows like the wind until he is, you know,......
c) Vito - anothr great guy but a lousy candidate;
d) Chairman Ghorra - a waste, a total waste - need I say more.
I listened to Marty's speech. Sounded like he is not too far from Biden. Sounded old and disoriented.
I guess Ghorra didnt speak or else he would have posted it, since his ego is so bog these days. He thinks he is the next coming. Or did it already on his head (I mean coming)?
938, but Justin Brannan didn't 'defund' the police like you said. Brannan did vote to 'fund' the NYPD about ten billion bucks for this fiscal year.
ReplyDeleteGoing forward, all non-police functions need to be moved out of the NYPD, internal affairs needs to be shifted to the NYS police or the NYSBI, all international security operations should go to proper and more appropriate Federal security agencies; and more street policing needs to be done by the NY State Police, County Sheriffs need to be more like the rest of the USA, a self-contained and popularly elected policing force, and other agencies' civil agents need to have piece officer status to be used to enforce quality of life and business ordinances, along with Family Court Marshalls for enforcement of Family Court matters.
There were 23 people in the Fox picture. Why take out the elected officials? The point is nobody has seen Justin except when he went to city council to cut (defund) the police budget by 1 billion dollars.
ReplyDelete2:46 did a good job of diverting the issue of Justin voting to defund the police but its a simple issue and I know justin thinks he can sit on the couch eating marshmellows till his job security runs out in 2025.
Does Justin really believe the PBA guys telling him they'll sit this race out?
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