New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has presided over a public meltdown for the ages.
The beleaguered governor, caught in the free-fall of his fall from grace, has taken to blaming everyone under the sun for his fatal nursing home decree in March 2020. The ensuing cover-up led to a 40% under-reporting of the nursing home deaths, which was due to his administration’s fear of being exposed by the Trump administration.
“Most of all, the void we created allowed disinformation,” he argued. “And that created more anxieties for the families of loved ones.”
“I’ve had hundreds of conversations,” he continued. “People couldn’t get into the facility to see their loved one. They couldn’t get them on the phone. They couldn’t get staff on the phone to get answers. They were powerless. They were helpless.”
“They were literally physically removed and isolated,” he continued. “Loved ones died alone. Loved ones died alone,” he repeated.
“Fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, died alone,” he reiterated. “It was horrific. It was horrific.”
“And then the void in the information that we created started misinformation, disinformation, conspiracy theories, and now people have to hear that. And they don’t know what is the truth.”
This is not about an information “void,” this is about a deliberate under-reporting of nursing home deaths for political reasons, which was even exposed recently by the Associated Press.
“The truth is everybody did everything they could,” Cuomo argued. The governor is under fire because his executive order contradicted basic scientific understanding about the coronavirus, which was that the elderly are most likely to die from it.
“The truth is you had the best medical professionals and advice on the globe,” he argued. New York was one of the worst-managed states in the United States when it came to responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, second only to New Jersey.
“The truth is it was in the middle of a terrible pandemic,” he continued. “The truth is COVID attacks senior citizens. The truth is, with all we know, people still die in nursing homes today.”
WATCH IT BELOW:
The reaction to Cuomo’s press conference is damning:
Now Cuomo is accusing the state legislators of committing a crime
— Eddie Zipperer (@EddieZipperer) February 15, 2021
This guy is a legit monster. Only a total sociopath would say that staff caused the thousands of COVID deaths in NY and not the POSITIVE COVID patients that Governor Cuomo FORCED back into facilities with healthy old people. https://t.co/0RahdAn8mH
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) February 15, 2021
No, @NYGovCuomo , you did not tell the *entire* Senate or Assembly that there was a DOJ investigation, as the reason why you didn't share the nursing home numbers.
I found out about a DOJ investigation with the rest of NY'ers in the @nypost story Thursday night.
— Alessandra Biaggi (@Biaggi4NY) February 15, 2021
So far, Andrew Cuomo has blamed politics, the experts, nursing home staff, nursing home visitors, how busy he was, and capitalism for his crime.
— Eddie Zipperer (@EddieZipperer) February 15, 2021
Why haven’t any reporters asked about @melissadderosa’s admission of covering up the numbers to the democratic lawmakers?
— Janice Dean (@JaniceDean) February 15, 2021
Andrew Cuomo is lying.
— ACT For America (@ACTforAmerica) February 15, 2021
https://twitter.com/BuzzPatterson/status/1361411490591383552
Governor Cuomo sounds like a lawyer than a Governor. He threw everyone under the bus except himself regarding nursing homes deaths.
— TheLeoTerrell (@TheLeoTerrell) February 15, 2021
This is the biggest blame deflection I’ve ever seen. Now, he’s blaming capitalism for the nursing home deaths.
— Eddie Zipperer (@EddieZipperer) February 15, 2021
Andrew Cuomo should rot in a prison cell.
— Brigitte Gabriel (@ACTBrigitte) February 15, 2021
We are not confused governor. There are no conspiracy theories. You are a criminal, @NYGovCuomo
— Janice Dean (@JaniceDean) February 15, 2021
Cuomo’s big regret of his nursing home cover-up is that he got caught. So many lies in this presser like claiming his placement of over 9,000 infected patients with healthy nursing home residents did NOT result in spreading coronavirus to nursing homes. Patently false. https://t.co/E5cU4eMiIO
— Lee Zeldin (@RepLeeZeldin) February 15, 2021
Gov. Cuomo on NY nursing homes: "Covid did not get into the nursing homes by people coming from hospitals. Covid got into the nursing homes by staff walking into the nursing home." https://t.co/1cDjgq0yzK
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) February 15, 2021
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