Thread by @Neoavatara

This is what failure looks like.

He takes no responsibility for the tens of thousands of deaths on his own watch, in his own state.

He is a disgrace.

And those that say Trump doesn't take responsibility for his failures....where are you on this?

https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1282763004833083392

This is why even though I can't stand Trump, I have ZERO faith that Dems would do better. They don't hold their leaders to account either.

We have two, insanely stupid, incompetent Political parties vying for who gets to be in charge and incompetent for the next 4 years.

I would blame Trump more than Cuomo, but after Trump...CUOMO DESERVES THE MOST BLAME IN THE UNITED STATES.

And I think you could make an argument that Cuomo deserves even more blame than that, but that is neither here nor there.

He has the same blood on his hands Trump does.

If you want to argue that this was out of their control, this was unpredictable, etc...I am willing to accept that argument. I think this was a once in a lifetime tragedy.

But then, you have to make that same excuse for Trump as you do for Cuomo.

YOU CAN'T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS.

This is the most spectacularly evidence free, data absent threat that I have ever seen @ASlavitt write.

Cuomo was an utter disaster on every single level. There is no where in which Trump failed, and Cuomo succeeded. They both were utter debacles.

https://twitter.com/ASlavitt/status/1282838738121502720?s=20

Again this proves my point..nursing home 'meme'.

It isn't a meme. POLICY MATTERED. Governors in NY and NJ chose horrible, stupid policies when it came to nursing homes, and it DEVASTATED our elderly population.

Nothing Cuomo did in regards to Nursing homes was the right call.

Now, like I said above, you can argue that this was an existential black swan event, and NO ONE could have prepared for this.

That is fine.

But if that is the case, you have to excuse Trump for his actions early on too. You can't have it both ways.

Cuomo then compounded this failure by absolutely ignoring reality and science, and rejecting Trump's proposal to quarantine New York City and the environs.

Cuomo literally THREATENED surrounding states and the Feds (including Rhode Island) when they considered such measures.

The reality is that we could have saved TENS OF THOUSANDS if we had shut down travel from NY, especially from the airports.

We now know that New Yorkers did the majority of the viral seeding through out the country.

nytimes.com/2020/05/07/us/…

Other than the upper North West, most of the virus came through New York.

How many lives could we have saved if Cuomo has considered, for a brief second, quarantine of the NYC region?

It was purely because of POLITICS that Govs in NY, CT, NJ and local mayors didn't want to quarantine their region.

In short, they were willing to sacrifice the populations of distant states for local political benefit.

It is as simple as that.

We now know that, whatever success China had in containing COVID (and we know they are lying somewhat), that success heavily depended on LOCKING DOWN LARGE REGIONS TO TRAVEL.

Wuhan/Hubei was basically closed off for MONTHS.

In short, Democratic leaders did not want to follow such policies, because it would be damaging to their own political futures, and to their own image.

Maybe the best part is people blindly accepting the findings of Cuomo's own investigation OF HIMSELF regarding the nursing home deaths.

Imagine if Trump did his own investigation of his COVID actions, and said he did perfectly.

How many of us would blindly accept that?

Again, none of this EXCUSES TRUMP. None of it.

But the Left simply can't admit that Cuomo, Murphy, etc...did a relatively HORRID job governing. DeBlasio may have been the worst politician in the country (along with Trump).

But the Left will never hold themselves to account.

I think it needs to be said: In March I thought Cuomo was doing a decent job early on: Maximizing PPE, vents, mobilizing, etc.

He fell off the tracks the moment that he was more concerned about his own political future than the people of the country.

Shutting down the airports would have DRAMATICALLY decreased spread of the virus.

But he absolutely refused. And that was not a scientific decision...it was a personal, emotional decision.

Much like keeping the subways running.

Also, for the record...I think Newsom has done a far better job than Cuomo. Not perfect, not without mistakes, but far more about the science than about the politics.

Good piece from @RichLowry, mostly along the lines of this thread.

It's just nuts to praise New York's 'success' against coronavirus nypost.com/2020/07/13/its… via @nypost