Andrew Cuomo’s Book Deal and Why the Worst Rise to the Top in Politics

FEE ^ | 21 Aug 2020 | Brad Palumbo

[Rummyfan]

The coronavirus pandemic has hit the state of New York especially hard. Almost 33,000 New Yorkers have died from the virus, more total deaths than any other state in the country. And New York ranks as the second-worst state for deaths when adjusted for population. The Empire State alone accounts for one in five coronavirus deaths in the US despite having only around six percent of the nation’s population.

Why did New York fare so poorly?

Well, the coronavirus is far more lethal for older people. How well a state has mitigated the death count closely corresponds with how well they protected elderly, vulnerable populations. In New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo mandated that nursing homes accept patients who had tested positive for COVID-19 even if it means exposing their residents to the virus.

Yes, you read that right.

It shouldn’t come as a shock, then, that at least 6,600 of the state’s deaths happened in nursing homes. And this is almost certainly an undercount, as the Associated Press says it could be more like 11,000 when you adjust for the odd way in which New York defined its deaths. (The AP described New York’s death toll as “cloaked in secrecy” and even Democratic state legislators have accused the state of trying to cover up the number of nursing home deaths).

Of course this is what would happen if you force institutions housing the elderly to accept carriers of a virus that is highly lethal for older people. Other states such as Florida did the opposite. By barring COVID-19 positive patients from nursing homes, they escaped thousands of deaths.

Worse, Cuomo has refused to allow an independent investigation into his handling of the nursing home debacle despite bipartisan calls for oversight.

[Rummyfan]

From start to finish, Cuomo botched the COVID-19 response woefully. National Review’s Kyle Smith summarized the governor’s mistakes “breathtakingly bad moves” that “in retrospect amounted to catastrophe.”

“Cuomo failed to call for, and even actively discouraged, informal social-distancing measures in early March,” Smith wrote. And don’t forget “his March 25 edict to long-term care facilities that they must accept infected patients, which caused a mass deadly outbreak among helpless, trapped, elderly New Yorkers.”

In a just world Cuomo would currently be awaiting trial for criminal negligence and depraved indifference.

[Rummyfan]

I would p*ss on it.....

[Rummyfan]

“[Hayek] argued with great insightfulness that ‘the unscrupulous and uninhibited are likely to be more successful’ in any society in which government is seen as the answer to most problems,” FEE President Emeritus Lawrence W. Reed explained. “They are precisely the kind of people who elevate power over persuasion, force over cooperation. Government, possessing by definition a legal and political monopoly of the use of force, attracts them just as surely as dung draws flies.”

And Cuomo is surely a big dung fly.

[digger48]

Book publishers are the Democrats favorite laundromat$

[dfwgator]

Wonder why the shareholders of these publishing companies don’t revolt.

[Still Thinking]

Cause all the good, intelligent people already have real jobs?

[Still Thinking]

No way! He actually wrote a book to pay himself on the back about this??! How do you stretch “I’m a dumbass” into 300 pages?

[Fiddlstix]

[Dark Knight]

Governor Cuomo has shown by example...mass transit is a magnet for passing corona virus...high rise elevators are a magnet for coronavirus...ACA is a death sentence for old people via corona virus...

Most solutions to global warming either are non competitive nonsense (funded by competitors what a shock) or have 20 year life spans then terminal pricey solutions.

I’m not anti solution to real problems, but putting a name on solutions to non existent problems, or praising failures by blaming the fedgov for solutions that already had the Cuomo name on them...respirators sold, and death panels for their use...putting covid cases in nursing homes that weren’t ready (killing about 6600 IIRC) as a LEGAL REQUIREMENT. Need anyone say more about involving the government in health care?

DK

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Bfl

[faucetman]

Governor, we really need to discuss your policy of sending infected people into nursing homes.

NOT NOW, you IDIOT! I’m writing my masterpiece.

[LateBoomer]

Book deals and foundations are how money is laundered and payoffs made.

Prove me wrong.

[seawolf101]

He is a mass murderer.

[ConjunctionJunction]

Foundations are a big scam.

[attiladhun2]

Plus unions and wealthy leftist sugar daddies, who buy thousands of unreadable books and then have them donated to libraries and schools. Few read them. Urinalists might read synopses of them for puff-piece interviews. In a few months Cumdrum’s book can be had for 99 cents at dollar stores. Unsold copies will end up in trash bins or recycling centers. If 1 in 100 is read, I would be surprised.

[jazminerose]

Islamic terrorists are even more outraged than usual.Their 9/11 totals are not even close. All of that planning was for naught.

[jazminerose]

Warren Wilhelm Jr was telling New Yorker’s in *April* that the subway was safe and clean. No worries.

He should get at least a chapter.

[jazminerose]

Even Hillary doesn’t have this kind of chutzpah. As far as I know, she hasn’t yet written (hired a ghoster) about the bang up job she did in Benghazi.

[Rummyfan]

In New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo mandated that nursing homes accept patients who had tested positive for COVID-19 even if it means exposing their residents to the virus.

Yes, you read that right.

Cuomo should be facing prosecution.