{"id":179093,"date":"2021-02-16T03:19:17","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T00:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/media-served-as-protective-cloak-for-cuomos-covid-lies\/"},"modified":"2021-02-16T03:19:17","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T00:19:17","slug":"media-served-as-protective-cloak-for-cuomos-covid-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/media-served-as-protective-cloak-for-cuomos-covid-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"#Media served as protective cloak for Cuomo\u2019s COVID lies"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Media<\/a> served as protective cloak for Cuomo\u2019s COVID lies<\/strong>”
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News<\/a> that Gov. Cuomo\u2019s office had radically understated the number of COVID-19 deaths in New York nursing homes last year deflated his media image as a straight-talking teller of home truths. Now The Post has reported that the governor covered up the extent of the problem specifically because his office didn\u2019t want President Trump to \u201cturn this into a giant political football\u201d by instructing the Department of Justice to investigate Cuomo\u2019s handling of the situation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In other words, Cuomo buried evidence and impeded a federal investigation, hoping\u00a0a new \u00adadministration would leave him alone.<\/p>\n

Last March, Cuomo\u2019s state health commissioner, Howard Zucker, signed a decree ordering nursing homes to admit or readmit COVID patients released from hospitals, even if they remained infectious. The decision was made amid fears that hospital emergency rooms and intensive-care units would be overrun by the desperately sick; moving stabilized patients into care facilities app<\/a>eared to be the least bad option.<\/p>\n

Cuomo can\u2019t in good faith be faulted for initially making this call, though it allowed the virus to spread like fire throughout the state\u2019s nursing homes, infecting and killing the elderly and immune-compromised in droves. But he can be held to account for not rescinding the statewide order until May 10, well after it was obvious that hospitals weren\u2019t being swamped and that the policy was causing massive death in the nursing homes.<\/p>\n

Cuomo ducked media demands for nursing-home mortality data throughout 2020, even as every other state made the information public. While New York admitted to about 7,000 nursing home deaths, informed estimates put the real count at around 12,000; the state refused to confirm the figures.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Last month, state Attorney General<\/a> Letitia James released a report acknowledging that the real death toll was close to 13,000. In reaction to this news, Cuomo snapped, \u201cWho cares? 33 [percent], 28 [percent]. Died in a hospital. Died in a nursing home. They died.\u201d<\/p>\n

The episode revealed Cuomo\u2019s massive egotism. He was elevated by a fawning national media into a preposterously salvific role last spring and summer. Throughout the pandemic, the governor gave daily televised briefings in which he hailed his own performance as a beacon of leadership.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He delivered such apothegms as, \u201cIt\u2019s going to be hard, there is no doubt. But at the same time, it is going to be OK.\u201d He also made a point, continuously, of calling the novel coronavirus the \u201cEuropean virus,\u201d presumably in counterpoint to Trump\u2019s calling it the \u201cChina virus,\u201d though it is widely recognized that the virus originated in China, even if some infected people may have caught it in Italy before bringing it to America.<\/p>\n

The media swooned. His \u201ccompetence is captivating,\u201d gushed The New York Times. Reporter Carl Bernstein praised Cuomo\u2019s \u201creal leadership,\u201d and actor and prominent Democrat Mark Ruffalo said that \u201cNew Yorkers are lucky to have a leader like Governor Cuomo in this crisis.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

In April, Cuomo appeared on Ellen DeGeneres\u2019 TV show to announce that he approved of the use of the word \u201cCuomosexual,\u201d embraced by DeGeneres and her fellow talk-show hosts Stephen Colbert and Trevor Noah, to describe people who love him.<\/p>\n

Cuomo also appeared almost every night on his brother Chris Cuomo\u2019s show on CNN. The pair frequently bantered about whose nose was bigger, who was more devoted to their mother in faithfully reproducing her recipe for sauce and how well the \u201cLuv Guv,\u201d in Chris\u2019s words, had done serving the Empire State.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In November, the governor won\u00a0his own special Emmy for his TV appearances. Emmy boss Bruce Paisner hailed Cuomo for taking \u201cit upon himself to use technology<\/a> to spread reliable information and tell citizens what to do. Governor Cuomo\u2019s daily press conferences were a whole new dimension in public education. He informed, he demanded and he calmed people down.\u201d<\/p>\n

Melissa DeRosa, the governor\u2019s top personal aide, now admits that\u00a0Cuomo intentionally stonewalled\u00a0to forestall or impede a federal probe. Speaking to Albany Democrats, DeRosa pled for understanding and \u201ccontext,\u201d insisting that Trump was \u201ctweeting that we killed everyone in nursing homes.\u201d<\/p>\n

In good news for Cuomo, however, it turns out Team Biden isn\u2019t planning to pursue the matter. Thank the governor for another lesson in public education: Sometimes, it pays to bury evidence of your guilt.<\/p>\n

Seth Barron is managing editor of The American Mind and \u00adauthor of the forthcoming book \u201cThe Last Days of New York<\/a>.\u201d Adapted from City Journal.<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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