Posted on 03/09/2021 2:31:01 PM PST by conservative98
EXCLUSIVE - A grieving family who lost two elderly parents to coronavirus wants New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to apologize for his administration's underreported nursing home deaths.
Cuomo's administration admitted in February that nursing home deaths had topped 15,000 — nearly 10,000 more than the state originally reported at the end of January — sparking criticism of the governor's March 25 directive ordering thousands of virus-infected seniors back into assisted-living facilities, nursing homes and other long-term care locations.
"It is like their lives didn't matter," Mary Ann Boniello told Fox News. "He needs to apologize to all the families, be made aware of who they are and accept his due punishment for the crimes he committed."
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Boniello grew emotional talking her parents' burial services and news about the Cuomo administration's deliberate underreporting of nursing-home deaths.
"To sit here every night, since we aren't doing anything ... it just broke our hearts terribly," she said of the news. "He doesn't even regard them. He just looks at them as numbers."
She added she wants the governor to read the names of those who died in nursing homes who may have been omitted from the administration's death count and that families need "closure."
"The image at the burial when we saw caskets with tags on them so they knew who was who," Boniello said while tearing up. "... The cavalier attitude [Cuomo] has had over this just disgusts us."
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Her message to Cuomo was the following: "How dare he belittle the value of the lives of the elderly in these nursing homes, where he felt, to make himself look good, that he could discount the number of people this has impacted and the extent that this goes with their families. Sorrow, loss, lack of closure. He brought about more deaths because of his actions."
It was ALL about the money, and also not wanting to give Trump credit for the ship. Cuomo and other leftists figure that elderly people in nursing homes cost the state a lot of money and heck “They are going to die anyway” so mind as well make a profit off of their deaths..35K per ventilation outta do it..and Cuomo didnt want to say “Trump did good by sending us that ship”
Cuomo has got to be the biggest mass murderer in US history. Specific actions taken by him results in 15,000 deaths. At a minimum there should be charges of manslaughter.
This is the issue. Not the diddling distraction
TRUE. psychopaths have no compassion.
Breaking today....people with special needs got the same treatment.
After WWII we hanged Nazis for doing such things.
Nursing Home Lives Matter.
Senior Lives Matter.
Lives with Co-Morbidities Matter.
If, and I mean IF, this policy was done for pure politics, would an apology really mean much?
Serious question, because there are two things we know for certain....
1) Cuomo ordered that infected people be placed back into ill-equipped buildings full of the most vulnerable people.
2) Donald Trump ordered the military to build a huge field hospital AND sent a hospital ship to NYC that both remained empty during the peak of the crisis.
There is an answer in there somewhere.........
Where are the lawsuits? This is New York and somebody should be willing to start a suit against the state for malfeasance leading to death.
Doesn’t anybody know a lawyer there?
I just want this asshole Cuomo to explain WHY he did not use all of the facilities available to him and supplied by the Feds for patients.
Yeah, but people want him to go because he said some bad things to women. What a joke.
Indict the ugly stupid ass.
They “mattered” to Sfachim Jr in as much as their deaths were a means to an end.
The ghoulish bastard.
‘Like their lives didn’t matter’
It did not as he was up for a Emmy for “The Killing Fields” and needed more people killed to clinch the win.
Democrats then
Socialists then
Communists who are people in a hurry for power.
None care about you living.
You got a 23 year old in your office, and you say like sex with older men? When’s the last time you said that to anyone - ever? Stop giving him a pass on his harassment.
“Doesn’t anybody know a lawyer there?”
They’re all tied up turning over rocks in Central Park, looking for ‘evidence’ that President Trump ‘did something’ illegal.
*Rolleyes*
It wasn’t just Cuomo.
The legislature knew, too.
And did nothing.
“It is as if their lives did not matter”
They no longer try to “win” votes now that they discover how easy, safe and cheap it is to just ignore the citizens and gin up enough to “win”.
And this is the real problem today. Politicians no longer need the voters. They can win any election where they have control of the ballot box.
I’ll settle for Cuomo spending the rest of his life behind bars.
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