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Originally Posted by Zollner
NOPE!
NY and the Nation watch aws our Gov continue his truthful daily briefings!
While your Coward went AWOL on his daily Dumbo Donny briefings because face it, he just looked like a silly stupid ASS!!!....LOL
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Gov Goombah CuHOMO has much blood on his hands. typical carpetbagger.
way to go Gov Goombah! and don't forget his bro Fredo!
This nursing home disaster is on you, Gov. Cuomo: Goodwin
https://nypost.com/2020/05/05/this-n...cuomo-goodwin/
Two weeks ago, Gov. Andrew Cuomo was first
asked about his policy that forced nursing homes to admit patients infected with the coronavirus.
“That’s a good question, I don’t know,” the governor answered, turning to an aide.
On Tuesday, Cuomo was asked about a report from the Associated Press that his team had
added more than 1,700 deaths to the count of those who died in nursing homes, bringing the total to at least 4,813.
“I don’t know the details, frankly,” the governor answered, turning to an aide.
Sgt. Schultz reporting for duty!
Cuomo is legendary for micromanaging and has been praised for his detailed daily briefings during the pandemic. He has closed schools, religious services and businesses because each human life is “priceless.”
So with known nursing home deaths representing 25 percent of all deaths in the state, it beggars belief that the governor didn’t know anything about his office’s fatal policy two weeks ago or the new death totals now.
The only way either could be true is through an extreme case of plausible deniability. Thus, if there’s no proof he knew, he can’t be held responsible, right? Which was the whole point of the Sgt. Schultz defense.
That was a sitcom. This is life and death.
And if you are the governor of the state that is the national epicenter of the deadly outbreak, you don’t have the luxury of not knowing, or pretending not to know, about the horrendous carnage in nursing homes and rehabilitation centers. And if your policies contributed to that carnage, the decent thing to do is to own your mistakes and fix them.
In fact, Cuomo does claim to know something about nursing homes and COVID-19 patients. He says the former can refuse to take the latter.
“The nursing home has to make the decision,” he said Tuesday. “If they don’t think they can take care of someone, all they have to do is say no.”
In this case, he “knows” something that’s simply not true, according to nursing home executives. The March 25 order that forced infected patients on them allows for no exceptions and has not been changed.
The killer fifth paragraph still reads: “No resident shall be denied re-admission or admission to the NH solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19. NHs are prohibited from requiring a hospitalized resident who is determined medically stable to be tested for COVID-19 prior to admission or readmission.”
Owners and managers said Tuesday they are not aware of any loosening of the policy. They also say that hospitals still are referring infected patients to them on a near-daily basis and they are expected to take them if they have an empty bed.
To them, the March 25 order was a death sentence. Some facilities say they had no deaths or even positive patients before that date, but many of both since, including among staff members.
Recall, too, the experience of Donny Tuchman, CEO of Brooklyn’s Cobble Hill Health Center. On April 24, when his facility already had lost 55 patients, he showed reporters email exchanges with the Department of Health where he got no help when he asked for relief. Even his request to have some of the COVID-19 patients sent to the Javits Center or the Navy ship Comfort, both of which
were well below capacity, was rejected.
As the Post front-page headline said the next day, “THEY KNEW,” meaning the state could no longer pretend it had no idea of the chaos it inflicted on nursing homes.
Cuomo, in response, has constructed an evolving litany of self-defenses, once coldly asserting it was “not our job” to help the homes get protective equipment for their staffs, even as other officials said the equipment was being provided. His office claimed the state policy mirrored federal policy, which, as the AP noted in its report, isn’t true. The feds never mandated that nursing homes be forced to accept COVID-19 patients.
On other days, Cuomo threatened to remove the facilities’ licenses and warned them against committing perjury in their death reports.
Flexing his power to punish them, he launched, with the state attorney general, an investigation of the facilities.
For the owners and staffs, the threats were a warning to be silent and the investigation is a bid to pin the blame for thousands of deaths on them.
Two other things Cuomo said Tuesday also bear remembering. First, he allowed that “we did some very harsh things” to nursing homes that “frankly, I wasn’t comfortable with.” He then cited the order barring visitors for the last two months.
It was indeed harsh, especially for the families who never saw their loved ones again before the virus killed them. By the same token, those families want to know why in the world the state would bar them from nursing homes but simultaneously impose infected patients on the same facilities.
Finally, on Tuesday, after an aide tried to explain the differences between “confirmed” and “probable” death counts, the governor interjected that “I would take all the numbers now with a grain of salt.”
So never mind?
Chirlane fails upwards
Reader Stephen Maroutsis is no fan of Mayor Putz or wife Chirlane McCray. He writes, “His latest brainstorm is to have her head a task force addressing and ensuring that there is more racial inclusion and equity once the city reopens. I can see why, just look at the bang-up job she did with the $1 billion she was given for ThriveNYC.”
Don’t cede the subways
Regarding the homeless
taking over the subways, here is some sanity from Terence Monahan, the NYPD chief of department: “Early, early tomorrow morning, New Yorkers will see subway stations closed to allow for train cars and platforms to be disinfected. There is no refusal. People have to get off the subway.”
Finally.
Pulitzers don’t care about accuracy
The radicalization of the Pulitzer Prize is complete.
For many years, journalism applicants were warned that their submissions had to include and refute any serious challenges to the accuracy of their work. Apparently, that safeguard no longer applies.
How else to explain Monday’s announcement that the commentary award went to Nikole Hannah-Jones of the New York Times for her “deeply reported and personal essay”
for the 1619 Project, which placed slavery at the heart of America’s founding?
Scores of historians have publicly blasted Hannah-Jones and the entire project as wrong in a myriad of ways, both in facts and conception. The challenges are so fundamental and sweeping that there is zero possibility they have been refuted to the extent the Pulitzer board historically demanded.
Or used to demand.
Kid, this will make very recent history a bit easier for ya
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks at a daily briefing at North Shore University Hospital, during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Manhasset, New York, May 6, 2020.
Who is Getting Hospitlized?
Governor Cuomo details initial findings from the coronavirus pandemic during a press briefing on May 6th, 2020.
