I have mixed feelings about this Cuomo nursing home thing. On the one hand, I just hate Andrew Cuomo, so I'm not gonna complain about anything that puts him in a bad light. On the other hand, I'd like to complain about this thing that's putting him in a bad light
I guess it's fitting for Cuomo's all-comms administration (Cuomo doesn't govern, he communicates), but this nursing home stuff feels kind of devoid of real policy substance. That Zucker memo for nursing homes to accept Covid patients certainly LOOKS bad, but it's not like NYS...
...did any worse on nursing home deaths than you'd expect from the state that got hit first. And the cover-ups about the death toll is bad, but it's not like it's not like it would've changed anything substantively if they'd released the full death toll earlier
There's a LOT to hate about Cuomo. On coronavirus alone, he was weeks behind de Blasio in ordering New Yorkers to wear masks. New York currently has the second-highest daily infection rate, and Cuomo hasn't done shit about it. There was never much of a campaign to, e.g., ...
...stop small gatherings. Indoor dining seems very questionable in light of our high infection rates. NYC's dire housing crisis, which has compounded the spread of the virus through household crowding, is the fault of state leaders, the most powerful of which is Cuomo, who...
...have taken a hands-off approach to NYC's very low construction rate and the in-state suburbs' near-moratoria on new housing. Beyond coronavirus, Cuomo has driven the MTA into the ground and chased away the most competent NYC Transit leader since the system was nationalized
Marijuana is still illegal. Local and state elections are often only slightly more democratic than Russian elections. And yet...Cuomo barely gets flak for any of that. Instead it's this kind of bullshit nursing home story. Doesn't give me much hope for a post-Cuomo New York
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