Quincy News: ‘One of the stupidest ideas I’ve ever heard’: Jake Tapper blasts New York City Mayor de Blasio’s parade plan

As New York City hospitals remain flooded by patients infected with the coronavirus, Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio is being criticized after suggesting the city will host a ticker tape parade for healthcare providers when the coronavirus pandemic has subsided.

– News covered by Quincy Quarry News with commentary added.

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CNN host Jake Tapper ripped the idea during his afternoon show, saying that “having a parade in New York City is one of the stupidest ideas I’ve ever heard.”

Apparently Mr, Tapper has never followed the career of Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch.

In any event, during a press briefing with reporters on Tuesday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said he was planning to hold “the biggest, best parade” to honor the front line health workers who have battled COVID-19.

Kayfabe rules in American politics these days
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In an arguable homage to Trumpian kayfabe, Mayor de Blasio announced that:

“I want to guarantee you one thing, that when that day comes that I can restart the vibrant, beautiful life of this city again, the first thing we will do is have a ticker tape parade down the Canyon of Heroes for our health care workers and our first responders.”

Apparently Mayor de Blasio missed the widely published reports that San Francisco may well have dodged a public health COVID disaster when the San Francisco 49ers blew a late lead in the Super Bowl LIV and so were not feted by their local fans via a victory parade.

Instead, to date San Francisco has suffered only 20 COVID-19 deaths and but 1,231 confirmed cases in the wake of very aggressive and so far apparently extraordinarily effective steps undertaken by rookie San Francisco Mayor London Breed.

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Conversely, in yesterday’s daily update, New York City officials announced a a surge in daily deaths of 974 COVID-19 deaths for a current total of 14,427.

While Tapper did not go further in his criticism of New York City Mayor de Blasio, Quincy Quarry must note that both Democratic Mayor of New York City de Blasio and Democratic New York Governor Andrew Cuomo have long and validly been criticized as by some as arguably as unresponsive to early warnings about the COVID-19 pandemic threat than what the media and especially partisan Democrats have long been saying about Republican United States President Donald Trump.

Cuomo and de Blasio made the worst mistake a leader can make in this situation; they feared being wrong. Yet because Cuomo talks tough and about his mother, people faint. I understand it’s relative. It’s more than what we get at the top, but it’s not leadership. https://t.co/X5YFFtuDql
— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) April 12, 2020

That and more recently Mayor de Blasio’s social distancing social media tip line has been slammed with critical posts which Quincy Quarry’s Standards and Practices desk will not allow the Quarry to note even if the critical comments are redacted..