Impunity City
Where does one begin to discuss the current global pandemic induced phenomenon and cult of personality that is the governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo? Since he locked down the state back in mid-March as coronavirus cases grew by thousands and thousands and thousands, Mario’s son had become the chosen one; elder statesman of all things COVID-19 and the default rebuttal warrior against Donald Trump’s consistent, insistently brazen and meta-comical errors of the novel disease and how to fight it. (Bleach and sun anyone?)
Like the spiky red-pockmarked handball looking pathogen, Andrew has become quite the pop culture icon himself with his daily afternoon government issue polo shirt press briefings on the outbreak. It’s become as much national institution as the Price is Right used to be at 12 p.m. every day as snippets of his videos and images have gone viral; thoroughly giving his constituents and viewers across the country and the globe essential information about the contagion’s spread and the status of his state.
His briefings have managed to even produce a spin off show via
About that. Because of all this attention, social media had dubbed and trended Andrew as #PresidentCuomo and corporate news grabbed onto to that to fill their webpages and hyperlinks with blanket speculation and suggestions about the COVID19 superstar to run for the white house too. Not to mention dozens of articles proclaiming how the suddenly hunky Cuomo is the boyfriend of America, but that’s just icky and gross so I’ll end it there.
Since this is supposed to be a devastatingly serious column,(note the header photo) but all that shit had to be prefaced to illustrate and elaborate how the goddamn Governor Cuomo does not deserve all these adulation and accolades or should still have a job right now regarding the consequences of his inaction and very suspect actions to stem the spread of the novel virus in his state besides lamely ostracizing people to wear masks.
As the days counted down to the cruelest April of our lifetime and humankind, Cuomo continued his daily briefings as a salve to his constituents and a reassurance to the nation following them as an alternative to Trump’s alternative facts.
Immediately at the start of the month the plague really came in. Yet here was the resilient and virile leader on the dais every afternoon in front of the camera, an exhibition of transparency reading out the morbid death tolls while quite oddly talking about flattening the curves as casualties started to mount. Yet the veneration levied to him by social and news media continued to shower on him…
…until he weaponized that veneration and adulation to shield himself
5 comments:
Once again we find out that the Dems are guilty of what they are accusing others of doing.
State and local political mismanagement, with their disproportionate, draconian reactionary edicts coupled with advocation of lawlessness, has nearly destroyed NY. Nice try blaming it on covid.
I just found out my father, a lifelong Republican, is now voting Democrat.
He never would have done that when he was alive.
Imagine a virus so intelligent that it knows how to vanish during riots for it's own safety.
He's just a misunderstood son of poor emigrants, who is only looking for bread. Get him a social worker, now!
Looks like someone has a little explaining to do
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-requesting-data-governors-states-issued-covid-19-orders-may-have-resulted
August 26, 2020
The Honorable Andrew Cuomo
Governor of New York State
NYS State Capitol Building
Albany, NY 12224
Dear Governor Cuomo:
I write to request information regarding COVID-19 and nursing homes run by, or for,
the State of New York, as defined in more detail hereafter. The Civil Rights Division of the
Department of Justice enforces the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA). See
42 U.S.C. § 1997. The Division is evaluating whether to open a CRIPA investigation of
institutions “providing skilled nursing, intermediate or long-term care, or custodial or residential
care” that are “owned, operated, or managed by, or provide[] services on behalf of [New York] or
[a] political subdivision of [New York]” (“Public Nursing Homes”).
To help us make this determination, the Division respectfully requests the following
documents and information for each Public Nursing Home. Data should be provided on a Public
Nursing Home-specific basis for each Public Nursing Home in the state.
1. The number of Public Nursing Home residents, employees, other staff, guests, and visitors
who contracted COVID-19, regardless of where such persons contracted COVID-19.
2. The number of Public Nursing Home residents, employees, other staff, guests, and visitors
who died of COVID-19 including those who died in a Public Nursing Home or after being
transferred to a hospital or other medical facility, hospice, home care, or any other location.
3. All State-issued guidance, directives, advisories, or executive orders regarding admission
of persons to Public Nursing Homes, including those previously superseded, as well as the
dates each such document was in effect.
4. The number of persons who were admitted to a Public Nursing Home from a hospital or
any other facility, hospice, home care, or other location after testing positive for COVID19 during the period the guidance or orders were in effect.
The Honorable Andrew Cuomo
We have not reached any conclusions about this matter. In the Division’s many
years of enforcing CRIPA, the good faith efforts of state, county, or local jurisdictions
working with us have enabled us to resolve many matters amicably. We request the
above information within 14 days.
If you have any questions, please contact our office.
Sincerely,
Eric Dreiband
Assistant Attorney General
Civil Rights Division
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