New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo panicked. He demanded that
President Trump provide him with 30,000 respirators.
The question left hanging in the air was why didn’t New York State
have an emergency pandemic stockpile of medical equipment?
Ask Governor Cuomo who, in 2015, rejected the need.
As for his ventilator demand, President Trump sent him 4,000. Cuomo
demanded more, many more.
In the meantime, Cuomo kept Trump’s ventilators in a New Jersey warehouse
in New Jersey saying he didn’t need them.
In an interview on
MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Cuomo said that President Trump doesn’t
understand “how to run a government, how to plan an operation.”
Cuomo: “They sent
4,000 ventilators. I’m not using them today because I don’t need them today. I
need to assemble them in a stockpile. “
March 27. Cuomo. “I follow the
data.”
March 30. Cuomo. “The tsunami is
coming!” If you haven’t done the work before the storm hits, it’s too late to
do it once the storm hits. And the storm is coming. Stop the politics. Listen
to the scientists and the pros and plan because otherwise … people will die who
don’t need to die.”
A lot of panicky wordage and
verbiage, but Trump delivered more than New York needed with far less words, and
a lot more action.
March 17. Cuomo. “NY needs 110,000 hospital beds for
corona patients. We only have 55,000.” Trump sends him the army to convert the Javitz
Center into coronavirus hospital. The President also converted the Comfort
hospital ship to accommodate thousands of virus patients. Trump also provided
six other new facilities providing 8,000 beds.
The Javitz Center and the Comfort were barely used. A clear
case of Democrat panic and waste.
Despite the excess of hospital beds,
Cuomo signed an order sending over 4,500 infected patients into unprotected
nursing homes condemning over five thousand vulnerable elderlies to death.
Cuomo defended his failed policy as being a “long term care” policy.
It was short term death for the
senior inmates.
When
rightly criticized, Cuomo first blamed the nursing homes. When asked whether he believes his policy requiring homes to admit infected
patients contributed to the death toll, Cuomo said no.
“No, because you’d
have to be saying the nursing homes were wrong in accepting COVID-positive
patients,” he said. “That’s what you would have to be
saying. Do you believe a nursing home operator would accept a patient who they
knew they couldn’t care for? Why would a nursing home operator do that?”
Then
he blamed the President. "Anyone who
wants to ask 'why did the state do that with COVID patients in nursing homes?'
It’s because the state followed President Trump’s CDC guidance. So they should
ask President Trump," he said.
When asked by a reporter if family
members can prosecute for the death of loved ones, Cuomo shamelessly said, “Who can we
prosecute for those deaths? Nobody. Nobody. Mother Nature? God? Where did this
virus come from? People are going to die by this virus. That is the truth.”
The governor repeatedly emphasized that COVID-19 targets the
elderly, and argued that vulnerable people would have died from the virus no
matter what protocols were in place.
“You can have a situation where everyone did the right thing,
and everyone tried their best, and people still die,” Cuomo said.
The Guardian, on May 26, revealed that Cuomo received
a powerful healthcare industry $1 Million donation from GNYHA for his 2018
election campaign. This was conditional on indemnifying nursing home and
hospital executives from lawsuits. Cuomo quietly introduced that legislation in
April as part of his annual budget bill.
Now try suing nursing home executives for their
criminally negligent behavior, New Yorkers. Good luck with that.
Sally Dreslin, the NY Health Executive Deputy Commissioner, and Howard
Zucker, the NY Health Commissioner, who executed the plan to move infected
people into vulnerable nursing homes, should be charged with criminal
negligence. They are the ones who got Cuomo to sign off on the policy.
Dreslin was an alumni of Columbia who profiled
her as a “Leading Light,” a “Change Agent for Nursing’s Future.” Columbia was so proud of their graduates such
as Dreslin that they wrote proudly if their alumni who “Excel at the Bedside
and Far Beyond.”
In Dreslin’s case, far beyond the bedside for
her patients was death imposed on them by her gruesomely wrong decision.
Columbia must be hanging its head in shame, but
Cuomo’s 2018 election gift indemnifies Dreslin and Zucker from prosecution.
After covering his own backside, Cuomo followed up with a public
announcement of a joint investigation into the
state’s long-term care facility in conjunction with state attorney general
Letitia James, promising fines of $10,000 per violation as well as the
potential loss of licensure. How this links in with this indemnification
commitment to GNYHA only time will tell.
Maybe Cuomo cannot be prosecuted for
his wrong-headed policies, but he bears heavy responsibility for lacking common
sense by being unaware of the danger of sending infected people into the
facilities of the weak and elderly while practicing cynical protectionism.
Then
we have PA Health Secretary, Rachel Levine,
she of the manic-looking hair, who ordered Covid-19 patients into nursing homes
to mingle with the weak and fragile elderly residents.
With
the temerity of knowing the inevitable consequences of her order, she moved her
own mother out pretty sharpish in order to save her life. When questioned why
she had rescued her from the inevitable jaws of death, she went on the
defensive.
“My mother is 95 years old. She is very intelligent and
more than competent to make her own decisions.”
In
her arrogance, Levine refused to admit that she has left others to die due to her foolish and
dangerous “health” policy.
Unlike
her own mother, the other isolated old folk would just have to suck up and
accept the consequences.
Unlike Levine, family members of the remaining elderly were not informed of the danger that
had been injected into their parents and grandparents final resting place.
That, ladies and gentlemen, is the
face of regressive progressivism literally at the end of the day.
Such facilities
accounted for more than two-thirds of all deaths statewide.
Levine had
ordered infected people into care homes before she imposed virus testing. So
much for the professionalism of the PA health expert, Rachel Levine, a decision
approved by Governor Tom Wolf, which resulted in Pennsylvania’s nursing home
death rate being 57.3% of the total in-state fatalities.
Why waste
precious testing kits on the elderly? This seemed to be the calculating
inhumanity of Democratic policy making. And they always preach from the
disconnected heights of moral superiority?
Like PA Governor,
Tom Wolf.
Wolf was
criticized for enlarging his power base by creating costly bureaucratic jobs
while ordering his peasants into harsh lockdown during his state’s virus crisis.
This included the employed people and small business owners. It smacked of
government overreach and a massive misuse of state funds.
By mid-May, a
number of counties were defying Wolf’s stringent lockdown orders. Small
business owners protested that they were facing bankruptcy and family financial
ruin.
This failed to
move the Governor. In fact, he threatened them and called them names. He said
he would penalize and cut off the water and electricity of any business that
did not obey him. Wolf called them cowards.
” They need to
understand the consequences of their cowardly act.”
To Wolf, people
who must work to work to feed their families are cowards. He also called them
immoral.
In Pennsylvania,
the Governor is a Wolf in progressive clothing.
Michigan
Governor, Gretchen Whitmer, made herself very unpopular with a list of
contradictory lockdown regulations. She allowed her citizenry to go out and buy
liquor but not to buy paint. She allowed individuals to go kayaking on the
state’s lakes but not go fishing. She had her state in tight lockdown until
lifting long distance travel to second homes which allowed her husband to drive
to their alternative residence in Antrim County to rake leaves and stay for a
couple of nights.
That’s not all.
Her husband, Marc Mallory, tried to get a
small business to defy his wife’s lockdown orders when he asked North Shore
Dock to ignore his wife’s lockdown order for them to release the family yacht
onto the water in time for Memorial Day weekend. The Whitmer family intended to
go sailing, something not permitted to others. During his efforts to persuade
the company to do his bidding, he reminded them that he was the husband of the
State Governor.
Company owner,
Tad Dowker, reported the incident on Facebook. At first Whitmer denied it
happened. But when confronted with the truth she pivoted to calling it a failed
joke.
If there is a
failed joke in this story it is the Governor Whitmer, another woman who thinks
she is a candidate to be America’s next Vice President.
But there is worse. Whitmer signed a directive in mid-April
that ordered that any nursing home with a population below 80% "must
create a unit dedicated to the care of COVID-19-affected residents.”
By early May, the virus death toll was
raging through Michigan nursing homes. As one lawmaker, a Democrat whose elderly mother was tested positive, said, her
controversial decision was “the most stupid thing we could come up with.”
A State
Oversight Committee member, Pete Lucido, said it was a “reckless disregard
for human life.” He has called for an investigation.
According to
some of the state’s health departments, the number of nursing home deaths came
to 1,372, some 33% of Michigan’s fatalities, and numbers may be higher as the
Whitmer Administration have not been fully transparent.
Democratic
states seem to treat their elderly as third class citizens - after illegal
immigrants and infected patients. Is it
down to mismanagement? Or do they consider them expendable, more of a cost
burden on the state budget?
But the segment
of the population suffering anxiety are not only the elderly. They are the age
group up to 55. They are not anxious about dying. They are anxious about the
chances of ever being able to live as they did before the lockdown.
Thousands,
millions, do not see a way back to prosperity because Democrat governors and
mayors stomped on their necks. The curve may have been flattened but the hopes
and dreams of millions were sent into the abyss, maybe never to return.
Another
hypocritical Democrat is Illinois Governor, J.B. Pritzker. Repeatedly, he
demanded that his subjects stay in lockdown until he allows them out. With
typical arrogance, Pritzker dodged an embarrassing question from a reporter who
asked why, when everyone else in his state was stuck at home, his wife had
jetted off to their $12 million equestrian estate in Florida.
Instead of
apologizing to Illinoisans, his fired back, ““My official duties have nothing to do with my family. So,
I’m just not going to answer that question. It’s inappropriate and I find it
reprehensible, honestly that, that, uh that reporter wrote a story about it.”
A typical
Democrat deflection, deflecting the guilt on to the reporter for asking the
question rather than having the humility to admit his family’s wrong decision.
So the guilt remains, and the good people of Illinois can decide on the
efficacy of Pritzker come November.
In Virginia,
Governor Ralph “Blackface” Northam, he of killing babies after birth
notoriety, banned gatherings of more than ten people and forbade anyone in his
state to go out without a mask. “Wearing a mask,” he said, “can
literally save a person’s life.”
Clearly saving
lives was not on Northam’s mind when he was photographed and filmed on a Virginia
beach on Memorial weekend chatting with people, and not wearing a mask.
Hypocrite! But
we knew that anyway, didn’t we?
It was the same
with New York’s Mayor. De Blasio banned people walking in Central Park, except
that he was publicly exposed by an irate citizen for doing precisely that with
his wife and a couple of associates.
“Do as I say, not
as I do,” has become a Democrat policy.
“This pandemic
has just begun,” said California Governor,
Gavin Newsom, almost enthusiastically in mid-May. His intention was clear. Keep
them away from work.
New Mexico
Governor, Michelle Lujan Griffin, enforced a lockdown on her public. This
included closing all “non-essential” businesses. After lecturing New
Mexicans to stay home, she allowed a non-essential shop to open briefly for the
sole and exclusive service of having her browse covertly through their
collection and have them deliver her purchase to her home.
Griffin is on
the list of Biden candidates to be the next Vice President.
On a national
level, American voters will not readily forgive the Democrats under Pelosi’s
leadership for abandoning them when she refused to return the Democrats early
to Congress to help forge an emergency budget for the hundreds of millions of
Americans unable to earn a living.
Instead, they
watched her gloat about her expensive and exclusive ice cream on a TV comedy
show in her luxury California mansion.
The contrast
could not be more striking.
In her selfish
action she showed that her governance was not an essential service, and when
she returned to the House it was to pass a bloated three trillion-dollar
package that did absolutely nothing to help the unfortunate Americans in
lockdown but had everything to do with blatantly advancing a Democrat political
agenda.
And so it goes
on and on and on.
Terrible cases of Democrat mismanagement in time of crisis. Minneapolis anyone? Minneapolis is not the prototype. Ferguson, Baltimore went before. Even Detroit and Chicago without the riots. All cities of utter Democrat social and economic failure now made worse due to their mishandling of the pandemic.
Terrible cases of Democrat mismanagement in time of crisis. Minneapolis anyone? Minneapolis is not the prototype. Ferguson, Baltimore went before. Even Detroit and Chicago without the riots. All cities of utter Democrat social and economic failure now made worse due to their mishandling of the pandemic.
Despite all this
failure, the Democrats really believe they can lead America.
Democrats have
become a faith based political party. They believe the negative projections and
models because it gives them hope to find their way back to power and domination
over their people.
It allowed them
to preach that America must remain in lock down for as long as possible, long
enough to screw up the election process and twist it in their favor with
mail-in ballots, the avoidance of mass rallies, and no televised head-to-head
debates between Trump and Biden. The
Democrats pray that the ruin of the American economy would be Trump’s Via
Dolorosa on his way to his crucifixion come November.
Covid was their
epiphany after three desolate years of failure to remove the President. The
virus fell like manna from heaven. The governors and the mayors supplicated
themselves to the false gods of science and projections in order to guide their
people toward the Promised Land of November. Their message is clear. No matter
how many fall along the way, the Temple of Big Government will care for the
survivors come Election Day.
God help us all!
Barry Shaw,
Israel Institute for Strategic Studies.
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