New Orleans Mayor Blames President Trump For Mardis Gras Go-Ahead Earlier In The Month That Has Resulted In The City Becoming The Southern Epicenter For The Pandamic

New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell blames Trump for her not canceling Mardi Gras: "When it’s not taken seriously at the federal level. It’s very difficult to transcend down to the local level in making these decisions." pic.twitter.com/JF1VgNsJHB

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) March 26, 2020

CBS: New Orleans mayor says she would have canceled Mardi Gras if Trump administration had warned about coronavirus dangers

The mayor of New Orleans said Thursday that she would have canceled the city's famous Mardi Gras celebrations last month if the federal government had been clearer about the dangers posed by coronavirus. Orleans Parish is now one of America's hardest-hit regions during the pandemic — with the nation's highest per capita death rate from the virus.

Mayor LaToya Cantrell, a Democrat, said that "no red flags were given" by federal agencies before its Mardi Gras celebrations in late February — just weeks before the World Health Organization declared coronavirus a pandemic.

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Update #1: New Orleans mayor says Trump should have warned city to cancel Mardi Gras that is now believed to have caused huge spike in coronavirus cases in eerie parallel with 1918 Spanish flu pandemic in Philadelphia when 16,000 died after parade (Daily Mail)
Update #2: New Orleans Mayor: Mardis Gras Go-Ahead Was 'Trump's Fault' As Big Easy Becomes Southern Epicenter (Zero Hedge)

WNU Editor: Talk about passing the buck and refusing to take responsibility. All that this mayor had to do was watch the news to know that this pandemic was very real, starting with President Trump putting a travel ban on China in February.

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