{"id":34928,"date":"2020-07-27T02:28:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T23:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/whats-behind-gov-andrew-cuomos-obsession-with-the-post\/"},"modified":"2020-07-27T02:28:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T23:28:00","slug":"whats-behind-gov-andrew-cuomos-obsession-with-the-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/whats-behind-gov-andrew-cuomos-obsession-with-the-post\/","title":{"rendered":"#What\u2019s behind Gov. Andrew Cuomo\u2019s obsession with The Post"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#What\u2019s behind Gov. Andrew Cuomo\u2019s obsession with The Post<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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July 26, 2020 |<\/span> 7:28pm <\/p>\n

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\n Gov. Cuomo’s head is the only place The New York Post can live for free in New York City.<\/span>
\n Lev Radin\/Sipa USA<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

\n We\u2019re bracing for Gov. Andrew Cuomo to start charging us rent \u2014 we\u2019re basically living in his head.<\/p>\n

He not only still blames The Post for the public furor over the thousands of COVID-19 deaths in New York
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\nnursing homes, he now also says we\u2019re the villains behind the rising coronavirus caseloads in Arizona and Florida.<\/p>\n

Our corporate cousins at The Wall Street Journal, meanwhile, are behind Texas\u2019 corona-woes.<\/p>\n

Seriously.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s take the (slightly) more serious charge first. It\u2019s not new: The gov has been insisting for some time that New Yorkers are blaming him for the local nursing-home deaths (more than 6,300, and possibly more than 12,000) only because, as he put it Friday, \u201cIt is a political issue. I think it is the New York Post,\u201d particularly columnists Michael Goodwin and Bob McManus, and also \u201cFox TV.\u201d<\/p>\n

What the Post news<\/a> and opinion pages (as well as other outlets, such as ProPublica) actually did was report accurately on the state Health Department\u2019s March 25 order that homes accept patients without regard to their COVID-19 status \u2014 indeed, without even testing for the virus. The state eventually retreated from that order, but only after weeks of negative publicity, and without ever admitting that it was nuts.<\/p>\n

It was plain early on, weeks before March 25, that the virus was especially dangerous to the elderly. Forcing homes to take these patients clearly added new risks for those already there, as the bug jumped from the infected to the caretakers and everyone else in the buildings. The only real question is how many needless additional deaths ensued.<\/p>\n

When The Post\u2019s Bernadette Hogan first asked about the order, Cuomo claimed ignorance \u2014 but he has stood behind the supposed wisdom of Health Commissioner Howard Zucker\u2019s mandate ever since. Any failure, he insists, is the fault of the Trump administration, which issued a guidance that Cuomo insists required Zucker to enact the nursing-home policy \u2014 although other states read the guidance very differently.<\/p>\n

In fact, it\u2019s obvious that Zucker simply overfocused on ensuring that hard-pressed hospitals had somewhere they could send recovered (but still infectious) patients. The fact that many homes just weren\u2019t prepared to isolate the infected (and provide adequate protective gear for their caregivers) didn\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n

Zucker has since produced a study that argues the order didn\u2019t lead to needless infections (or, if it did, it was all the homes\u2019 fault) \u2014 but neither he nor Cuomo will agree to an independent look at the facts, despite calls all across the political spectrum for just that.<\/p>\n

It was a Post question about such an outside review that set him off Friday. But if it\u2019s just \u201cpolitics,\u201d as he claims, why does he treat the thought of an independent study as a threat?<\/p>\n

As for the Arizona-Florida-Texas question: On Sunday, Cuomo bristled at the thought of opening up New York a bit faster, since lockdowns have tanked the economy even as metrics, such as new cases, hospitalizations and deaths, keep hitting new lows.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Wall Street Journal, New York Post \u2014 they continue to beat a horse that is dead: \u2018We should reopen the economy faster in New York,\u2019 \u2018The infection rate is low; re-open faster,\u2019 \u201d he ranted.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe infection rate is low because we have done an intelligent, phased reopening. What they are advocating has been demonstrated to be wrong and to be a failure.\u201d<\/p>\n

You see: \u201cFlorida listened to the New York Post. Texas listened to The Wall Street Journal. Arizona listened to The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post. That was wrong\u201d because all those states are now seeing rising coronavirus caseloads.<\/p>\n

He did not say who California \u201clistened to,\u201d although it\u2019s seeing the same problems. Presumably, he knew no one would buy the idea that the Democrats who run the Golden State would be guided by The Post.<\/p>\n

But either way, our editorials have not been aimed at Florida or Arizona or California. They\u2019ve been aimed at New York. And Cuomo has been too slow. Too slow to see the deaths he wrought in nursing homes because of his Health Department\u2019s terrible order. Too slow to see that what we need to do is protect the vulnerable while not driving the entire state\u2019s economy into the ground.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re fine paying the rent. We\u2019re fine being the whipping boy for Cuomo\u2019s passing the buck on nursing-home deaths. Because if we\u2019re annoying him that much, it means one thing \u2014 he knows we\u2019re right.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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