Why will you not directly answer the questions? It looks like you are trying very hard to push an ideological agenda.
My question to you was: If there are currently (that means at the present time, not in the future) shortages of respirators, why were Cuomo and Newsom unable to cite any speific incidences of shortage?
You were unable to answer this question.
The claims you made were:
-There are currently ventilator shortages in Italy.
This is true, according to Italian physicians, however the cause of the shortage is debatable
-The article you posted demonstrates there are shortages
The article is there for everyone to read. It does not say what you said it does.
-The hospitals in the areas surrounding Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital did in fact have ventilators.
I did some searching, and it turns out the hospitals in surrounding areas in fact did not have ventilators in the first place.
"Dr. Nacoti helps at a hospital in San Giovanni Bianco, located in the foothills of the Alps. On Sunday evening, the facility had around 70 coronavirus patients. The hospital, which specializes in outpatient surgery, normally has 20 beds.
Recently arrived patients lay on gurneys, filling the emergency room and a corridor while they wait for beds to become free.
Upstairs, more than 50 patients were administered oxygen through helmets or masks. Some were in critical condition, but the hospital has no intensive-care unit and no ventilators". - Lessons From Italy’s Hospital Meltdown. ‘Every Day You Lose, the Contagion Gets Worse.’ - WSJ
Furthermore, I found this article https://www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...ed-it-n1162786 which says Hospital Papa Giovanni XXIII in Bergamo has 80 patients on ventilators. This is supposedly one of the most advanced, highest quality hospitals in all of Italy. They are expected to take ICU cases from the smaller hospitals in surrounding areas, yet it appears they only have 80 ventilators? Is it lack of preparation due to socialized medicine or is it a genuine shortage?
"D'Antiga said 80 of the 100 beds in his hospital's intensive care unit are occupied by coronavirus patients hooked up to ventilators"
-You have also claimed the economy would not be substantially impacted by a month long shutdown.
We have cited several instances where the economy has already been badly damaged. No need for hypothetical projections here.
Your arguments are specious, irrelevant or flat out fallacious. (I can't say what you do is sophistry, because you did not rise to that level of sophistication) You would fit in well with CNN.