If you remember back in February-March 2020 Gov. Andrew Cuomo was crying about not enough hospital beds, not enough ventilators not enough of anything.
So the Federal Government put the army to work and built out a 2500 bed facility in the Javits Center. Then the USNS Comfort was sent to New York, that is another 1000 beds.
Ventilators were sent to New York.
The Javits Center only served 1000 patients during its entire time. The Comfort only served 80 patients. No one who needed a ventilator went without.
Cuomo continued to cry through June. Then he began to sing his own praises. How great a job he was doing with the pandemic. How he had conquered it. Wrote a book about how great he was.
On March 25 Cuomo issued a directive barring nursing homes from refusing people just because they had Covid. So 9,056 recovering patients were sent to hundreds of nursing homes. Transferred from hospitals to nursing homes. Then the reported number of nursing home deaths was reported to be 8,500, until February 11, 2021, when the number of 15,000 was released. It was covered up. An aid said they where afraid to release the real number, afraid it would look bad.
Cuomo said he was just following CDC guidelines, ok lets see the guidelines, OOPs
Does any one with a brain, need any guidelines to know that sending recovering covid patients into a nursing home with the most vulnerable people in this country is a disaster? Some conqueror. The man should be charged with manslaughter. Darn I forgot he is a left wing Democrat,
Those transfers could have been sent to the Comfort, or the Javits Center, and received excellent care. Posing no danger to anyone.
This morning it was reported that Nancy Pelosi and Cuomo had a little dust up.
Nancy this week sent a letter to New York’s congressional Democrats, touting the federal proposal’s $50 billion in state and local funding for New York as well as $20 billion to “support families’ health, financial security and well-being.”
The proposed amount exceeds the $15 billion that Cuomo has repeatedly said the state needs to close New York’s budget gap. According to the Times Union of Albany, N.Y., which covers the state’s capital region. The newspaper said it obtained a copy of Pelosi’s letter.
“We sadly observe over 1.5 million coronavirus cases, nearly 45,000 deaths, and hundreds of thousands of job losses in New York,” Pelosi writes. “Please know that your concerns are being addressed in ways that you have advanced and with the enthusiastic advocacy of Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.”
In other words, Nancy went to State Democrat’s rather than address Cuomo.
Think about it. For a State that has failed in it’s fiscal responsibility the Federal Government is going to redistribute U.S. tax payers dollars to ball out the State of New York.
So in this $1.9 trillion of covid relief bill that the Senate will take up next week is $70 billion to bail out the State of New York when they asked for $15 billion. Frankly they should not get one dollar.
However, in the world of Joe, and the far left this is the way it works.
I really enjoyed this article on Cuomo, it definitely hit the point square on.
Cuomo fouled up big, he had options and chose the worst of them all.
How can he inject infected residents back into Assisted living Centers; those that are the most susceptible to contracting the virus. I’ll bet he wouldn’t have done that with Ebola victims, granted Ebola is much more contagious and deadly, however it appears that he did exactly what he and only himself wanted to do despite the workers at the ALC’s cautioning him that as front line workers, they themselves did have appropriate PPE at the time.
He carries a lot of loss on his shoulders and yet sat in front of the cameras for hours boasting about his success….and winning an Emmy???
Lately it looks as if he’s been laying in a tanning bed-likely to hide the embarrassing redness his face would show while having to answer to his failed approach.
Great article IBOB, as are all of your writings. Keep up the fantastic work Sir.
perhaps one down, just the rest of the swamp to go.