Power Line's Paul Mirengoff writes of the Covid-19 pandemic in the U.S. He isn't the most angry of the guys who post there, but he sure does
enumerate the recent mistakes of stumbling NY Governor Andrew Cuomo.
Cuomo’s most egregious error was his approach to nursing homes, which are, in a real sense, the epicenter of this pandemic. On March 25, after Cuomo issued the lockdown order, the New York State Department of Health ordered that nursing homes and rehabilitation centers admit and readmit patients sick with the coronavirus.
Mirengoff quotes the first two sentences of that order as follows:
No resident shall be denied re-admission or admission to the NH solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19. Nursing homes are prohibited from requiring a hospitalized resident who is determined medically stable to be tested for COVID-19 prior to admission or readmission.
And he concludes:
New York and nursing homes are the epicenter of this pandemic. Cuomo’s incompetence and stupidity are at the center of both disasters.
Those "orders" make one wonder whether many secretly view nursing home deaths as a feature, rather than as a problem?
