Louisiana got no advice, Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser said, even though the Trump administration knew of the dangers by the time Mardi Gras started.
’s Wolf Blitzer. He asked Nungesser if the state had “received some guidelines, would that have saved lives? You might have canceled Mardi Gras?”
“Well, absolutely,” Nungesser responded. “We surely ... had we had knowledge of what was to come, we would have taken a different look at it.” He added: ”It’s hard to look back now and say we should have canceled Mardi Gras. But with 840 people, deaths, in the last 30 days here in Louisiana, surely some of those people probably wouldn’t have been infected had we taken action sooner.”“several of the president’s top health experts were saying, ’You’ve got to do something, you’ve got to shut things down, otherwise, that one, that two [cases] ... that’s going to escalate.
“We didn’t have that information,” Nungesser said. “Surely, I know our governor didn’t. And had we known what was to come, we probably would have taken other action.” Nungesser admitted that the money Mardi Gras brings to businesses is seductive. “You know, it’s difficult juggling — tourism is a big industry in Louisiana,” he noted. “But we sure have to put the lives of the citizens first and the health of their safety.”
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