Andrew Cuomo is having the time of his life. His approval ratings are through the roof and he’s being talked about as a replacement for Joe Biden should Joe wander off somewhere without his Visiting Angel, never to be found again. Hipster merchandise featuring his face is exploding on Etsy and he’s getting a nightly hour with his own brother on CNN to chat about oh, this and that, and whatever is happening in his day at the given moment. It’s quite the arrangement! Andrew doesn’t ask his brother why he broke quarantine, literally endangering lives and the younger Fredo doesn’t ask him about 1,700 previously uncounted COVID related deaths in New York nursing homes, or why he didn’t authorize disinfecting subway cars until early May, a full 90 days after the first cases were reported on March 1.
Governors in Florida, Texas and Georgia bear the brunt of media criticism for their handling of testing, shutdowns and hospitalizations. In each instance, no outbreak or death count in those states has come close to matching New York. National media went to plaid over Jacksonville’s reopened beaches, while glossing over the hordes of impatient hipsters grouping together throughout New York parks, the entire time lavishing praise on the governor of the moment.
There is something deeply unsettling about the way Cuomo’s handling of the epidemic has been lionized by the national media, and treated as a reality show by his brother’s network; especially when it’s viewed in tandem with attempts to delegitimize governors in other states who have competently faced down similar challenges. California’s Gavin Newsom deserves credit for pouncing early, while also crediting the work of the Trump administration. Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington was the first statewide elected executive outside of Donald Trump forced into dealing with the pandemic head on. What looked to be a spiraling disaster was quickly contained. Yet in both cases, the national New York-based media ignored them, choosing to zone in on the dangers of yokel hick states and their GOP governors, catering to a catastrophe that never actually came. Remember spring breakers all amassing on beaches and on patios?
Meanwhile, researchers believe that New York City was the epicenter for the spread throughout most of the country and that the New York subway system — far from a beacon of cleanliness at the best of times — was the largest incubator of the virus, according to the New York Times . As the virus took hold throughout the city, elected officials denounced concerns about its origins as racist and xenophobic, and encouraging their constituents to go about life as usual and attend festivals and movie theaters. As it turns out, the mayor snuffing out a groundhog was just a practice run.
Last week, the bombshell dropped that someone in New York authorized the use of nursing homes for recovering patients of COVID-19, a decision that led to approximately 1,700 casualties. That’s more COVID deaths than the entire state of Florida…but if you watch the news, you’ll only hear about supposed massive failure on the part of Gov. Ron DeSantis.
andrew cuomo’s rating are the false figmentation of the press. the state of NY hates this idiot. he has a $10+ billion budget deficit in 2019. coupled that with the loss of trave income from nyc and the mass exitus from both the city and the state will push another $6-8 billion deficit. the live in girlfriend sandra lee of 15 years is gone??
ok! he move alleged virus recovering patients into nursing home. now the virus has killed residents.. one can only imagine the legal commercial in the near future for a family member dying of the virus in a nursing home infected by a cuomo’s recovery placement. the law firms are already developing commercials to call their office as soon as the death certificate is signed
What other democrat has done better? He is the best of the worst!
@Randy:
Actually, the governor of California has done a lot better than Nipsi Cuomo.
@retire05: And Cali could get worse how?
Thats what happens when you elect a Liberal Democrat Please quit electing Liberal Democrats tou end up with Dim-Wits like Cuomo and AOC
Because the first part of the assertion isn’t true.
People are just now waking up to Cuomo’s murderous idiocy with the nursing homes. His popularity is about to sink, big time.
@Meremortal: Yep, sending sick people back to a nursing home where there are a high percentage of immune deficient residents is a typical Democrat move. No thought about unintended consequences. Now watch greggie defend that move! It was not like there were not hundreds of empty beds!
Is it a coincidence that the CCP covers up the disaster of their response and our liberal media covers up the bungling of Cuomo?
Well the “people” talking about him are a shrinking group of sheep that still watch CNN.
He’ll be lucky to keep his post as Governor, even as a corrupt Democrat.
Between him and his brother’s hippocracy, his bad decisions, and his vitriol while addressing citizens, he’d never get close to winning the Presidency.
@Nathan Blue:
listening to cnn and other media outlet is actually eating your meals from a feces filled toilet bowl. is that where you dine greg?
@Greg:
Two questions, Greg:
1) Which first part?
2) What isn’t true about it?
@Hotrodelectric, #12:
The first part comes at the beginning; to avoid confusion, the second part has been conveniently placed at the end. The first part is a baldfaced lie. I won’t give it the respect implied by referring to it as a mischaracterization. It’s a typical right-wing propaganda lead-line—the disinformation package reduced to the length of a Chinese fortune cookie message. It’s the only thing the writer actually wants to plant in his readers’ heads—a conclusion that comes at the beginning rather than the end, thereby saving his target audience the trouble of actually analyzing the logic of any argument that supposedly supports it.
@Greg: Democrats knee-jerk blame Trump for all the deaths. Cuomo, then, must be similarly blamed for the deaths in his state, especially those he condemned to death by sending them into homes for the elderly, as well as the residents in those homes.
I believe my tolerance for Trumpian nonsense has now been exceeded for the day.
@Greg: No answer, huh?
@Greg: We answered that already. Commo is the best of the worst and liberals always support liberals no matter what atrocities they do.
@Greg:
*yawns*…uh huh, greg. Please…keep telling us your little partisan version on reality that you picked up from your bosses.
We’ve suffered the Dem/Left disinformation package lead-lines for decades. Just open Google News and you’ll see your party’s propaganda on full display. Don’t accuse the Right of doing what you and your party do.
May 14, 2020 – 100 NYC Children Now Have Coronavirus-Related Syndrome, As Reported Cases Increase Worldwide
The total of U.S. COVID-19 fatalities now exceeds 85,000 people.
@Greg: Mayo clinic : Signs of Kawasaki disease, such as a high fever and peeling skin, can be frightening. The good news is that Kawasaki disease is usually treatable, and most children recover from Kawasaki disease without serious problems. The death of any child is horrible, the virus isnt going anywhere it is something we must learn to live with like heart disease and getting hit by drunk drivers.
You can hide forever in your hovel and shiver your life away. Most of us just want to live our lives without the arbitrary rules of stupid politicians who never miss a paycheck.
Looking at NYC’s death toll and infection rate, it took them forever to begin to clean the subway system, putting virus patients in nursing homes, Fredo out in public while positive faking his quarantine.
They are disgusting selfish pigs.
@Greg: Think you’ll be able to politicize the sickness and death of children?