NYS immunized nursing homes and the people running them.
From both civil and criminal liability.
Albany snuck that provision into the budget that year, in April.
A month AFTER Cuomo started sending them back from nursing homes.
And Cuomo started sending them back two weeks AFTER Fedzilla relaxed the regs and allowed nursing homes to refuse.
Cuomo did this. The legislature cooperated.
FWIW, I think it’s very likely that the death stats are inflated. NYS has been goosing the case count all along. An Epidemic isn’t going to scare people without a lot of people dying.
States aren’t the only things in need of an audit.
We need to look at the medical records and death certificates for every CoupFlu death in NYS.
Two other stats to check are dementia deaths and failure to thrive on death certificates,
If those suddenly dropped like a rock during CoupFlu, then that might be another clue that the stats are crap.
I am NOT, repeat NOT, minimizing the loss suffered by families who lost elderly loved ones to CoupFlu.
But we need a detailed picture of who, what, where, when, and why.
And we won’t get it if we start out making assumptions.
We need to collect the facts, then let the chips fall where they may.
My governor, the worst of all 57 governors, (according to a CATO study last year), did the same thing as Cuomo. Inslee used Cuomo’s actions as an overlay how to act. Including inflating COVID deaths and hospitalizations linked to redistribution at the federal level of our tax revenue back to the state governments.
Inslee was caught inflating deaths by a watchdog group called the Freedom Foundation and of course instead of any punitive action taken against the corrupt mendacious reprobate Inslee (so far anyway), one of the Inslee stooge sycophants just quietly adjusted down the numbers and went merrily on their way.
Time has come that being a democrat is grounds for arrest. Since their founding the democrats have been responsible for more terroristic actions and deaths than any other American political party. This is an indisputable fact. There are no moderate or sane democrats left, if there ever was, and it’s time for our side to STOP saying otherwise.
FWIW, I think it’s very likely that the death stats are inflated. NYS has been goosing the case count all along. An Epidemic isn’t going to scare people without a lot of people dying.