Mayor Bill de Blasio is worried that the COVID-19 pandemic will continue to explode throughout the nex♒🅘t two months.
“I fear this crisis is going to start to crescendo through April, May before it gets better,” de Blasio said on MSNBC Monday morning.
“I wanted to get people acclimated to a new reality,” he said about his decision Sunday to close public schools through at least April 20.
De Blasio compared the outbreak, with 329 positive cases in the city and 3,600 nationwide, to the country’s darkest historic periods.
“The Great Depression and the New Deal are very instructive here, I’m not saying bread lines,” de Blasio said — adding that “rationing” may be necessary.
“This is a pure war footing right down to rationing if you need it,” he said.
The mayor echoed concerns by Gov. Andrew Cuomo that New York does not have enough medical supplies to handle the pandemic and needs the A🌞rmy to step in.
“The U.S. military right now is still engaged in building those border walls. Take them off that and put them on coronavirus, for God sakes,” de Blasio said.
De Blasio also advocated broader testing across all parts of the population, ▨not just high-♛risk people, to stop the spread of the potentially deadly disease.