Originally Posted by
grump
Haven’t posted lately because it is pretty well recognized by now that Cuomo’s mismanagement of the corona virus has been epic. I’ve talked with people in other states, Florida and Texas eg, where people over 65 have been getting vaccine for weeks, where , while there are lines, the vaccine is actually being distributed, and where the death rate is 50% of that in New York. Couple of interesting things, finally last week Cuomo awakened to the fact that some organizations have the capacity to distribute the vaccine to their own members, Eg, the NYPD. Perhaps had he participated in the numerous planning video conferences held with HHS, CDC and the National Governors association he might have thought of that from the get go. But nah, better to spend the summer railing against the vaccine and telling people that they’ll die if the get it, that Trump is making it in the White House sink and vowing to prevent New Yorkers from getting it. And I guess he just lost the lawsuit brought by restaurant owners challenging the shutdown of indoor dining in areas where he chooses to arbitrarily declare it. His constant refrain that his decisions are driven by “the numbers” was just one more in the trove of lies he’s told throughout. The numbers show that indoor dining is of almost no danger as a cause of the spread. Contact tracing, that miracle of epidemiology, shows that beyond debate. His response in court? The state’s contact tracing is such an abject failure that it can’t be relied on for anything....unless he says so! The last time the court ruled against him like this he fired all the senior status judges in the court system the next day. Wonder who’ll get the axe this time. Remember in March his mantra “15 days to stop the spread”? It’s month 11 and he’s still leading the country in deaths by a mile and in death rate by 2 miles.