{"id":183472,"date":"2021-02-20T00:30:09","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T21:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nursing-home-families-furious-over-gov-cuomos-covid-rant\/"},"modified":"2021-02-20T00:30:09","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T21:30:09","slug":"nursing-home-families-furious-over-gov-cuomos-covid-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nursing-home-families-furious-over-gov-cuomos-covid-rant\/","title":{"rendered":"#Nursing home families furious over Gov. Cuomo&#8217;s COVID rant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Nursing home families furious over Gov. Cuomo&#8217;s COVID rant<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>New Yorkers whose kin were killed by COVID-19 they contracted in nursing homes reacted with outrage to Gov. Andrew Cuomo\u2019s claim Friday that his critics were \u201ccausing pain to families who lost a loved one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are sickened by Cuomo\u2019s press conference,\u201d said Vivian Zayas, founder of the Voices for Seniors advocacy group.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe weren\u2019t sure if he was threatening families as we cry out for accountability and justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zayas, whose mom, Ana Martinez, died of the coronavirus in Long Island nursing home, added: \u201cThe families who lost family members are the true New York strong. Cuomo is tone-deaf and should resign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Danielle Messina, whose dad, Samuel Arbeeny, died of COVID-19 in a Staten Island nursing home, called Cuomo\u2019s comments \u201cridiculous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was his March 25 mandate, his order that was responsible for nursing home deaths. It spread like wildfire,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s common sense not to put sick, infected patients back into a facility with vulnerable residents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Messina added: \u201cNow he\u2019s angry and he is trying to put the blame on everyone else. He won\u2019t take accountability for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCuomo should definitely resign,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Haydee Pabey, whose mom, Elba, died of COVID-19 in a Manhattan nursing home, said, \u201cCuomo is wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s the one that lied. He\u2019s the one who provided the misinformation. He covered it up,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" alt=\"Vivian Zayas\" class=\"wp-image-17367307 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/Vivian-Zayas.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/Vivian-Zayas.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/Vivian-Zayas.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/Vivian-Zayas.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/Vivian-Zayas.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2000 2000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Vivian Zayas, founder of the Voices for Seniors advocacy group, holds a picture of her mother Ana Martinez, who died of COVID-19 at a Long Island nursing home.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Stephen Yang<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s one who caused the pain to families of 15,000 COVID victims.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pabey also blasted Cuomo for his repeated attacks on The Post over its aggressive coverage of nursing home deaths.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe New Post has been on its <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>, bringing the issues out and listening to the families. The NY Post has stepped up for us,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t want apologies from Cuomo anymore. We want impeachment or resignation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tracey Alvino, whose father, Daniel Alvino, 76, died in a hospital after getting infected with the coronavirus in a Long Island nursing home, accused the governor of \u201cleveling veiled threats at the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>, the legislators and even the nursing home families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCuomo called us naive for believing `lies and conspiracy theories\u2019. They aren\u2019t conspiracy theories,\u201d Alvino said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis man has no heart. He sent 9,000 COVID patients into nursing homes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alvino added that \u201cCuomo acts like a bully to anyone who speaks against him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe First Amendment was written to deal with tyrants like. You can\u2019t threaten people for telling the truth,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m fired up. Our voices just got ten times louder. He\u2019s going to have to be impeached.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fox <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> meteorologist Janice Dean, whose in-laws died both died of COVID-19 in New York nursing homes, live-tweeted criticism of Cuomo during his news conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a disgrace. And a criminal,\u201d she said in one tweet.<\/p>\n<p>Dean also re-tweeted a reporter who quoted Cuomo\u2019s claim that \u201cI have a very thick skin\u2026.I don\u2019t really care what people say about me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHahahahaha,\u201d she added.\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Cuomo&#8217;s COVID rant&#8221; New Yorkers whose kin were killed by COVID-19 they contracted in nursing homes reacted with outrage to Gov. Andrew Cuomo\u2019s claim Friday that his critics were \u201ccausing pain to families who lost a loved one.\u201d \u201cWe are sickened by Cuomo\u2019s press conference,\u201d said Vivian Zayas, founder&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":183473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/Vivian-Zayas.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[94145,70430,70344,70736,73970,4952,42160,70365,71556],"class_list":["post-183472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2-19-21","tag-andrew-cuomo","tag-coronavirus-in-ny","tag-deaths","tag-families","tag-manhattan","tag-nursing-homes","tag-senior-citizens","tag-staten-island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}