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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Oh their lives mattered, they were useless eaters on the state balance sheets and Cuomo found a way to reduce state spending. Poof!
Don’t hold your breath.
Disabled lives matter.
Sure, because they were Germans. But all the American progressives who had been doing similar things (at least similar to things Hitler did early on) never faced any punishment at all.
Thats not it.
He wanted the elderly to get infected and die so that the covid stats would be a political issue he could use against his enemies.
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Oh to be sure, they didn’t.
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