The Victory Girls have this one right;
Cuomo, of course, denied the claim that his directives turned nursing homes into COVID-19 death chambers but a new report from task force for the New York State Bar Association refutes Cuomo’s claims and blasts his directives.
The NYSBA’s Task Force on Nursing Homes and Long-Term Care breaks it down:
The Governor and the State Department of Health were focused on readying the State’s hospitals. The same focus was not placed on preparing the State’s nursing homes for the onslaught of the virus. It is also not clear to the Task Force that the State’s nursing homes took sufficient meaningful steps to prepare for the arrival of the virus. The Task Force saw no evidence that the State’s nursing homes prepared for the virus by increasing staffing, or providing staff training that had any meaningful impact, or stocking up on PPE.”-Report and Recommendations of the Task Force on Nursing Homes and Long-Term Care
June 2021But wait, there’s more:
There is one other event to mention. In March of 2020, the Governor, via Executive Order, granted immunity against ordinary negligence to health care professionals, and certain health care entities, including nursing homes. That immunity was codified a short time later.
The grant of immunity was controversial from the start. Immunity stripped the protections provisions under the New York State Public Health Law that protected nursing home residents from abuse and neglect.”-Report and Recommendations of the Task Force on Nursing Homes and Long-Term Care
June 2021Cuomo issued the nursing home directive on March 25th. Regulations were overridden. Nursing homes were understaffed. PPE ran scarce. And while hospitalizations in New York peaked on April 14th, the makeshift hospital at the Javits Center in Midtown and the USNS Comfort were empty. 6,326 people died in 300 New York nursing homes. How many beds were aboard the USNS Comfort? Let’s say 1,000. Only twenty of them were used.
In other words, thousands of people died because Andrew Cuomo and those pulling his strings didn’t want Donald Trump … ( Or, for that matter anyone that is to the right of Fidel Castro) …getting the credit for correctly handling the covid 19 situation.
I have been saying on this site for 20 years now …and longer… that when government runs health care every health care decision becomes political. There goes your proof.
Add to that the petty vindictiveness of the Democrats and their lack of actual care for the American people and what they’re going through, and you’ve merely scratched the surface of the situation. Obviously they will do absolutely anything to attain and maintain governmental power.
The deaths caused? Collateral damage… and actually a plus, given that they’d only vote Republican anyway.
Andrew Cuomo needs to be frog-marched off to jail immediately for those deaths. He is directly responsible for them.
