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tomder55
Even with that he tried to deflect the blame to the courageous nursing home staffs .He now requires them to take tests twice weekly as if they were somehow the cause of the outbreak in the nursing homes .
I don't think that was deflecting blame. It was to protect all as far as possible.
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NY city had the Javits Center rigged with hospital beds ;he had USNS Comfort docked in NY and did not use it's resources . He had hotel rooms set up with hospital beds and did not use them .Instead he DIRECTED that C-19 positive patients be sent back to nursing homes to comingle with the most vulnerable population in the state
He did not DIRECT C-19 patients to commingle with others in the nursing home. The intent was to free up hospital beds for sicker patients who were overwhelming the hospitals. The hospital ship was never intended to house C-19 patients nor was the Javits Center. They were not equipped to do so. However, I agree something could have been done in the emergency as it presented itself with the nursing home patients.
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Then the pompus jackass said when he was informed that staff at these facilities did not have enough PPE ,he scoffed and said it wasn't the states problem.
This was part of the larger disagreement between the feds and Cuomo. You make it sound like Cuomo did it heartlessly.
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The truth is that the moron cried and bellyached for weeks that NY did not have enough PPE ;enough respirators ,enough beds and begged for Trump to pull his feet out of the fire
Absolutely true! And still is. Trump has repeatedly refused to take effective charge of a national response to C-19.
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Now he whines and complains that he needs Congress to bail out his failed state that he left in the hole for $9 billion BEFORE the virus
Come on, Tom, you should know that the virus has drained the state coffers and soon the first responders (cops and firemen, etc.) won't be getting paid without help from the feds.
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BTW ,his goal is clear here. He hates private run care . He wants all the elderly warehoused in government facilities . Well I got to see one of those institutions up close and personal before that one shut down and the families of the residents were forced to scramble to find one of those private facilities Cuomo so despises . It was a dilapidated building .The stink was overwhelming.
Most of that industry is badly in need of improvement. Both the profiteers and the government-run. They both have the same essential problem - poverty wages and workers who accept those wages do not come with PhDs.
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Shame on Cuomo and you if you support the heartless policy directive of March 25. All it took was almost 2 months of needless deaths for the meatball head to change course .
Nobody supports heartless policies. In hindsight, that policy that was intended to free up hospitals so new, sicker patients could be treated was not the best - especially when considering the Javits Center and the Hospital ship.
Cuomo did what he thought was best at the time. He reversed himself because the uproar made the policy self-defeating. I firmly believe the major screw-up in this whole business has been the Chinese followed by Donald Trump who has repeatedly denied taking a leadership position - telling the states to do it themselves.
Time to put partisan politics aside and help the country get back on its feet. Wherever I go, that is the common attitude - the only exception is Donald Trump on his daily TV shows. His head is on re-election, not recovery.
