Posted on 03/16/2021 5:48:10 AM PDT by Kaslin
It is more clear than ever that the Cuomo administration has been conducting a concerted, months-long disinformation campaign against the people of New York.
If only Governor Cuomo cared as much about the truth and New York’s most vulnerable populations as it appears he cares about his book deal.
For most of the past year, officials at the highest levels of state government have repeatedly and knowingly understated the death toll in nursing homes, made false assertions about how New York's situation compared to those of other states, and distorted the facts surrounding a policy that sent thousands of COVID-positive patients into facilities housing the state's most vulnerable population.
According to the latest revelations from The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, the disinformation campaign extended to manipulating the findings of a Health Department report on the crisis in nursing homes issued last July – undermining the department's credibility in the thick of a major public health crisis.
The deception continued in the face of pushback from ordinary citizens, the media, elected officials, and watchdog groups, including the Empire Center and its senior fellow for health policy, Bill Hammond.
The Empire Center is proud of its role in bringing out the truth, starting with a Freedom of Information request that Hammond submitted to the Health Department in August. The Empire Center filed suit to enforce that request in September and, with legal representation from the Government Justice Center, won the court order on Feb. 3 that finally compelled the release of complete nursing home data on Feb. 10.
In spite of everything that has come to light, the disinformation campaign persists as official sources make false and misleading statements about what has transpired – including misrepresenting the findings of an Empire Center report. The Cuomo administration apparently believes that the bullhorn of high public office is enough to drown out the facts. That strategy was always doomed to fail in the end.
It's hard to see how any of the officials responsible can continue to effectively perform their duties after what appears to be a fundamental betrayal of the public trust.
As serious these transgressions are, they must not distract from the urgent need for a broad, thorough and independent investigation of New York's overall pandemic response. The state needs to understand why it was hit so hard by the coronavirus so that it can properly strengthen its public health defenses against the next pandemic.
In an open letter on March 4, a coalition of nine watchdog groups including the Empire Center laid out a three-point plan for state leaders: promptly post all pandemic-related data in tabular format, commence oversight hearings in the Legislature, and convene an independent investigation in the style of the National Transportation Safety Board – that is, primarily aimed at learning lessons rather than casting blame.
The sooner lawmakers take those constructive steps, the better. Unfortunately, the executive branch officials who should be leading this effort – starting with Governor Cuomo and Commissioner Zucker – are too compromised by their own irresponsible actions to play any part other than submitting to questioning under oath.
Gov. Cuomo knows that Dems are royalty and will be treated as such. Laws are for commoners. Now go away.
I’ll just put this out there since I am still wondering why Deep State has it in for their stooge...
What if they’re tried to get rid of Cuomo for cooking the WuFlu stats, not because the stats were lowered, but because a real investigation would show that they were goose. Exponentially.
Q: Has anyone seen the death rates for people residential care in 2019, 2020, and the first quarter of 2021...?
I can’t find that info anywhere.
And I’m really curious. Lower accident rates shouldn’t apply here. If WuFlu was taking out lots of residents we should see more dead.
Did we?
The New York Times and most of New York covered for him for an entire year. They only started turning on him with the sexual harassment allegations. They told us what a great job he was doing. He should be president. He was doing things right. The entire media covered for him. They are now piling on like they were not part of the cover ups.
Cuomo and his ego are fighting back. We’ll see who is more powerful, a Governor or The senate majority leader, the NYS Senator and the majority of the NYS Legislature.
Biden and his family allows his dementia to ruin the country.
He has a D next to his name.
They are now piling on like they were not part of the cover ups.
THIS.
He had a ship in the harbor and big tents in Central Park. He received and Emmy and wrote a book all with the powers that be and media fannning him and feeding him grapes. They are complicit.
This evil man, and his idiot brother Fredo, have lived lives of luxury and privilege. He knows nothing about working for a living, raising his own kids, or having abide by the rules the rest of us must live by. To him, the “useless eaters”- the elderly, the unborn and the very young- have NO importance. He has gotten by and gotten elected by playing on his father’s name, and the corruption has made them very rich. Why, how DARE you question him! You NY voters have NO right to hold him to account! HE is KING, and you are nothing.
Ego? I’ll bet it’s about money and a lot of folks were on the take which is why we need to take him down for sexual harassment before we follow the money trail.
The vile Andrew Cuomo will neither resign nor will he be forced from office. Those calls that his henchman Schwartz made to County Executives and Democrats were not to gauge Cuomo’s level of support but reminders.Cuomo knows all the details of the Democrat corruption machine. He knows who and just how the money squeezed from contractors and consultants on the shoddy construction at the Tappen Zee Bridge and other projects went down. Just who formulated and stood to hugely profit from the COVID nursing home debacle is well known to Cuomo. He also knows who the friends and family members who were “made” lobbyists laundered bribes from entities needing rules, regulations and laws tweeked. Cuomo can and would put a big hurt on many Democrats if he were brought down. He is not going anywhere. Forget about it.
ego? id...
https://www.simplypsychology.org/psyche.html
superevil. belongs in thanatos...
https://www.greekmythology.com/Other_Gods/Thanatos/thanatos.html
I’m putting this here because I don’t want to start a new post, but the Uncle Louis Variety Show parodied the Sfaccim.
Please to enjoy :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGjAXSb7-vo
How many of those unaccompanied children are 16, 17, 18 year old males??? If it looks like, acts like an invading army, is it??
Post #14 - sorry, wrong thread!!
He always has & he always will.
He is NOT ALONE in that behavior.
Just spend a few moments compiling a list of similar Democrats.
Officials: Primary care physicians should be distributing COVID-19 vaccine
But they can't because NYS won't give them any.
Experimental vaccines and NYS wants people who don't know you from Adam's housecat deciding which you get and why.
Another issue is, you don’t know who’s giving the vaccine because they’re all wearing masks.
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