Cuomo’s COVID-19 tall tales

New York Post ^ | July 17 2020 | Kevin Byrne

[SmokingJoe]

On March 25, Cuomo’s Department of Health issued a mandate forcing New York nursing homes to admit coronavirus patients — the results were tragic. AP

Gov. Andrew Cuomo must have a short memory — either that or he’s just trying to distract attention from his administration’s deadly coronavirus failures by criticizing President Trump’s many lifesaving actions.

During a recent press conference, Cuomo took yet another cheap shot at Trump, arguing that the president’s handling of the COVID-19 ­pandemic was somehow worse than the infamous Watergate scandal.

“You look at the facts, the facts clearly demonstrate Trump was wrong from Day One, and New Yorkers have been right from Day One,” Cuomo bragged.

The problem is that Cuomo has been resoundingly — and tragically — wrong about the pandemic himself. And unlike the Trump “scandal” that exists only within Cuomo’s imagination, Cuomo’s failure of leadership has been very real. More people have died of COVID-19 in New York than in any other state — at least 6,000 of them in our nursing homes. That is not something to be proud of.
On March 25, Cuomo’s Department of Health issued a mandate forcing New York nursing homes to admit coronavirus patients — a move that alarmed infectious-disease experts nationwide.
“If you introduce 4,500 people sick with a potentially lethal disease into a vulnerable and notoriously imperfectly monitored population, people are apt to die,” said Dr. Charles Branas, chairman of the Epidemiology Department at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health.

The executive director of the Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine, Christopher Laxton, also sharply condemned Cuomo for failing to consult clinical experts prior to implementing the policy.

[SmokingJoe]

Meanwhile, in contrast to ­Cuomo, President Trump has gone above and beyond to help New York win its battle against the virus, providing federal assistance whenever we needed it most. For instance, the White House deployed a Navy hospital ship, USNS Comfort, to Manhattan, which ­Cuomo himself admitted “not only brought comfort but also saved lives” in New York City.

At the president’s direction, the Army Corps of Engineers worked closely with state authorities to convert the Javits Convention Center and Westchester County Center into dedicated COVID-19 hospitals.

[ronnie raygun]

Anyone one else would have been put on trial and jailed, he, with his action deliberately murdered those people in nursing homes and then jokes with his half witt brother on CNN.

[God luvs America]

yet il duce cuomo is selling posters- while NYC descends into further hell.