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Maybe You CAN Fool All Of The People—80% Anyway: The Andrew Cuomo Anomaly
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Michael Ejercito
May 9, 2020, 10:48:25 AM5/9/20
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Maybe You CAN Fool All Of The People—80% Anyway: The Andrew Cuomo Anomaly
MAY 9, 2020 / JACK MARSHALL
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo really does have “blood on his hands,” but
thanks to the news media coverage, the public doesn’t seem to care.
In March, Cuomo, already overseeing the state that is the one U.S. local
where the Wuhan virus could then be accurately described as out-of-control,
adopted the policy of forcing nursing homes to take in elderly residents who
were infected.
The edict horrified many medical authorities. Health experts warned this
was a formula for disaster because such facilities didn’t have the ability
to properly quarantine the infected. “This approach will introduce the
highly contagious virus into more nursing homes. There will be more
hospitalizations for nursing home residents who need ventilator care and
ultimately, a higher number of deaths. Issuing such an order is a mistake
and there is a better solution,” American Health Care Association President
and CEO Mark Parkinson protested in March after Cuomo’s order went into
effect.
Richard Mollot, executive director of the New York’s Long Term Care
Community Coalition, said that the policy “put many people in grave danger.”
Professor David Grabowski at Harvard Medical School, whose field is public
health, was aghast, telling NBC, “Nursing homes are working so hard to keep
the virus out, and now we’re going to be introducing new COVID-positive
patients?”
Yes, that was the plan, but it is difficult to fathom why anyone would
think it was a good idea. A lot wasn’t and still isn’t understood about the
virus, but one thing that has been known all year is that it is especially
deadly for the elderly and people with compromised immune systems.
‘Hey, let’s put all those discharged old people who we know are infected
into cramped, confined nursing homes where trying to quarantine anyone is
hard and where we already know dubious management and care is rampant!’
‘BRILLIANT!’
In the imperious attitude that New York residents have become accustomed to,
Cuomo claimed that it was “not his job” to help the privately-run nursing
homes acquire necessary protective equipment to deal with the already
infected seniors he was forcing them to accept. He dismissed all warnings.
In April, asked by a reporter if anyone had objected to New York’s policy
of forcing nursing homes to admit recently discharged Wuhan virus patients,
Cuomo snapped, “They don’t have the right to object. That is the rule, and
that is the regulation, and they have to comply with it.”
And so it came to be that Cuomo’s government put old people already
suffering from the virus into understaffed nursing homes despite other,
better, safer options, like nearly empty medical facilities New York has
available, such as the Javits Center, or the Navy hospital ship Comfort.
Thoughtfully, New York did supply body bags—I guess you could call them
“protective equipment— to many of the nursing homes as the deadly new
residents arrived, and sure enough, the bags came in handy, as the results
of Cuomo’s policy were exactly as the experts predicted. Over a third of all
U.S. deaths from the pandemic have occurred in nursing homes, and New York’s
long term care facilities lead the pack with over 5,000 fatalities. New
Jersey is in second place with over 4,000, and the rest lag behind
considerably. (A point of order is needed here. There is anecdotal evidence
as well as justifiable suspicions that the virus is being used a default
cause of death determination when other maladies could have been blamed as
well.)
The Ethics Alarms position on judging governments and elected officials
regarding their handling of the pandemic is lenient and forgiving. Since so
little is known about the virus still, since the crisis is unprecedented,
and because the political and public pressures from advocacy groups and
social media are so daunting, every leader is in an impossible position and
to an extent at the mercy of moral luck. Ethics Alarms’ sympathy does not
extend to objectively reckless and stupid policies, or those that are
dismissive of basic individual rights without adequate cause, like
prohibiting “big box” stores from selling “non essential items,” or pulling
down the nets on tennis courts. Cuomo’s order didn’t just defy expert
advice, it defied common sense. When an elected official’s decision looks
stupid at the outset and has exactly the effect that critics said it would
have, that official deserves to be held accountable.
So far, however, Cuomo isn’t being held accountable; in fact, the opposite
is true. The New Republic noted, “If a media darling has emerged during the
coronavirus crisis, it’s Cuomo.” The New York Times’s Ben Smith wrote that
Cuomo “has emerged as the executive best suited for the coronavirus crisis.”
Carl Bernstein told CNN that Gov. Cuomo has demonstrated “real leadership of
the kind the president of the United States should have provided to the
American people throughout this crisis, but hasn’t.”
(I’ll interject here that it is sad to see what a complete political hack
Carl Bernstein has become in his post Post years. His “All the President’s
Men” partner, Bob Woodward, has largely maintained respectable professional
standards.)
Thus the inexplicably positive coverage (well, maybe not so inexplicable)
has handed Cuomo a huge boost in the polls. Columnist Ross Barkan wrote,
“Andrew Cuomo’s approval rating has surged beyond 80 percent. New York is
the global epicenter for COVID-19 and there’s little the government did well
to contain the virus in its early stages. 20,000+ people have died. It is
truly one of the most remarkable PR coups of all-time.”
That’s not a coup, it’s a gift. Apparently the news media decided that it
had to find some savior that the trapped Democratic Party could turn to when
Joe Biden began sounding like Dustin Hoffman in “Rain Man” or if Tara Reade
produced so much evidence that she couldn’t even be ignored by Nancy Pelosi.
Because Cuomo was clear and coherent in his daily press briefings (unlike
other prominent officials who hold daily press briefings), he was the
consensus choice.
Nah, there’s no mainstream media bias!
Maybe You CAN Fool All Of The People—80% Anyway: The Andrew Cuomo Anomaly
MAY 9, 2020 / JACK MARSHALL
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo really does have “blood on his hands,” but
thanks to the news media coverage, the public doesn’t seem to care.
In March, Cuomo, already overseeing the state that is the one U.S. local
where the Wuhan virus could then be accurately described as out-of-control,
adopted the policy of forcing nursing homes to take in elderly residents who
were infected.
The edict horrified many medical authorities. Health experts warned this
was a formula for disaster because such facilities didn’t have the ability
to properly quarantine the infected. “This approach will introduce the
highly contagious virus into more nursing homes. There will be more
hospitalizations for nursing home residents who need ventilator care and
ultimately, a higher number of deaths. Issuing such an order is a mistake
and there is a better solution,” American Health Care Association President
and CEO Mark Parkinson protested in March after Cuomo’s order went into
effect.
Richard Mollot, executive director of the New York’s Long Term Care
Community Coalition, said that the policy “put many people in grave danger.”
Professor David Grabowski at Harvard Medical School, whose field is public
health, was aghast, telling NBC, “Nursing homes are working so hard to keep
the virus out, and now we’re going to be introducing new COVID-positive
patients?”
Yes, that was the plan, but it is difficult to fathom why anyone would
think it was a good idea. A lot wasn’t and still isn’t understood about the
virus, but one thing that has been known all year is that it is especially
deadly for the elderly and people with compromised immune systems.
‘Hey, let’s put all those discharged old people who we know are infected
into cramped, confined nursing homes where trying to quarantine anyone is
hard and where we already know dubious management and care is rampant!’
‘BRILLIANT!’
In the imperious attitude that New York residents have become accustomed to,
Cuomo claimed that it was “not his job” to help the privately-run nursing
homes acquire necessary protective equipment to deal with the already
infected seniors he was forcing them to accept. He dismissed all warnings.
In April, asked by a reporter if anyone had objected to New York’s policy
of forcing nursing homes to admit recently discharged Wuhan virus patients,
Cuomo snapped, “They don’t have the right to object. That is the rule, and
that is the regulation, and they have to comply with it.”
And so it came to be that Cuomo’s government put old people already
suffering from the virus into understaffed nursing homes despite other,
better, safer options, like nearly empty medical facilities New York has
available, such as the Javits Center, or the Navy hospital ship Comfort.
Thoughtfully, New York did supply body bags—I guess you could call them
“protective equipment— to many of the nursing homes as the deadly new
residents arrived, and sure enough, the bags came in handy, as the results
of Cuomo’s policy were exactly as the experts predicted. Over a third of all
U.S. deaths from the pandemic have occurred in nursing homes, and New York’s
long term care facilities lead the pack with over 5,000 fatalities. New
Jersey is in second place with over 4,000, and the rest lag behind
considerably. (A point of order is needed here. There is anecdotal evidence
as well as justifiable suspicions that the virus is being used a default
cause of death determination when other maladies could have been blamed as
well.)
The Ethics Alarms position on judging governments and elected officials
regarding their handling of the pandemic is lenient and forgiving. Since so
little is known about the virus still, since the crisis is unprecedented,
and because the political and public pressures from advocacy groups and
social media are so daunting, every leader is in an impossible position and
to an extent at the mercy of moral luck. Ethics Alarms’ sympathy does not
extend to objectively reckless and stupid policies, or those that are
dismissive of basic individual rights without adequate cause, like
prohibiting “big box” stores from selling “non essential items,” or pulling
down the nets on tennis courts. Cuomo’s order didn’t just defy expert
advice, it defied common sense. When an elected official’s decision looks
stupid at the outset and has exactly the effect that critics said it would
have, that official deserves to be held accountable.
So far, however, Cuomo isn’t being held accountable; in fact, the opposite
is true. The New Republic noted, “If a media darling has emerged during the
coronavirus crisis, it’s Cuomo.” The New York Times’s Ben Smith wrote that
Cuomo “has emerged as the executive best suited for the coronavirus crisis.”
Carl Bernstein told CNN that Gov. Cuomo has demonstrated “real leadership of
the kind the president of the United States should have provided to the
American people throughout this crisis, but hasn’t.”
(I’ll interject here that it is sad to see what a complete political hack
Carl Bernstein has become in his post Post years. His “All the President’s
Men” partner, Bob Woodward, has largely maintained respectable professional
standards.)
Thus the inexplicably positive coverage (well, maybe not so inexplicable)
has handed Cuomo a huge boost in the polls. Columnist Ross Barkan wrote,
“Andrew Cuomo’s approval rating has surged beyond 80 percent. New York is
the global epicenter for COVID-19 and there’s little the government did well
to contain the virus in its early stages. 20,000+ people have died. It is
truly one of the most remarkable PR coups of all-time.”
That’s not a coup, it’s a gift. Apparently the news media decided that it
had to find some savior that the trapped Democratic Party could turn to when
Joe Biden began sounding like Dustin Hoffman in “Rain Man” or if Tara Reade
produced so much evidence that she couldn’t even be ignored by Nancy Pelosi.
Because Cuomo was clear and coherent in his daily press briefings (unlike
other prominent officials who hold daily press briefings), he was the
consensus choice.
Nah, there’s no mainstream media bias!
Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD
May 9, 2020, 11:49:16 AM5/9/20
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MichaelE wrote:
> http://ethicsalarms.com/2020/05/09/maybe-you-can-fool-all-of-the-people-80-anyway-the-andrew-cuomo-anomaly/
>
> Maybe You CAN Fool All Of The People—80% Anyway: The Andrew Cuomo Anomaly
> MAY 9, 2020 / JACK MARSHALL
>
> New York Governor Andrew Cuomo really does have “blood on his hands,” but
> thanks to the news media coverage, the public doesn’t seem to care.
>
> In March, Cuomo, already overseeing the state that is the one U.S. local
> where the Wuhan virus could then be accurately described as out-of-control,
> adopted the policy of forcing nursing homes to take in elderly residents who
> were infected.
The context here is a raging "out-of-control" COVID-19 outbreak in New
> http://ethicsalarms.com/2020/05/09/maybe-you-can-fool-all-of-the-people-80-anyway-the-andrew-cuomo-anomaly/
>
> Maybe You CAN Fool All Of The People—80% Anyway: The Andrew Cuomo Anomaly
> MAY 9, 2020 / JACK MARSHALL
>
> New York Governor Andrew Cuomo really does have “blood on his hands,” but
> thanks to the news media coverage, the public doesn’t seem to care.
>
> In March, Cuomo, already overseeing the state that is the one U.S. local
> where the Wuhan virus could then be accurately described as out-of-control,
> adopted the policy of forcing nursing homes to take in elderly residents who
> were infected.
York **and** Washington State because of President Trump ignoring the
pandemic in January and in February as evident by his calling it a
"hoax" by saying so openly at his campaign rallies and by saying so
with his actions which included his also playing golf between rallies.
There is so much blood on our President's hands that Governor Cuomo's
hands appear clean in comparison.
In the interim, I am simply wonderfully hungry (
http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 ) and hope you, Michael, also have a
healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
...because we mindfully choose to openly care with our heart,
HeartDoc Andrew <><
--
Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD
Cardiologist with an http://bit.ly/EternalMedicalLicense
2016 & upwards non-partisan candidate for U.S. President:
http://bit.ly/WonderfullyHungryPresident
and author of the 2PD-OMER Approach:
http://bit.ly/HeartDocAndrewCare
which is the only **healthy** cure for the U.S. healthcare crisis
Michael Ejercito
May 9, 2020, 12:13:02 PM5/9/20
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"Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD" wrote in message
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>MichaelE wrote:
>> http://ethicsalarms.com/2020/05/09/maybe-you-can-fool-all-of-the-people-80-anyway-the-andrew-cuomo-anomaly/
>>
>> Maybe You CAN Fool All Of The People—80% Anyway: The Andrew Cuomo Anomaly
>> MAY 9, 2020 / JACK MARSHALL
>>
>> New York Governor Andrew Cuomo really does have “blood on his hands,” but
>> thanks to the news media coverage, the public doesn’t seem to care.
>>
>> In March, Cuomo, already overseeing the state that is the one U.S. local
>> where the Wuhan virus could then be accurately described as
>> out-of-control,
>> adopted the policy of forcing nursing homes to take in elderly residents
>> who
>> were infected.
>The context here is a raging "out-of-control" COVID-19 outbreak in New
>York **and** Washington State because of President Trump ignoring the
>pandemic in January and in February as evident by his calling it a
>"hoax" by saying so openly at his campaign rallies and by saying so
>with his actions which included his also playing golf between rallies.
than the coronavirus.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2020/05/06/mic-drop-kayleigh-mcenany-scorches-media-early-coronavirus-stories
It was just confirmed last month that the earliest known COVID-19 death in
the U.S. was on February 6th, implying that there was community spread by
mid-January, if not sooner.
http://reason.com/2020/04/22/covid-19-was-killing-americans-earlier-than-we-previously-thought/
That said, rhe New York Times became prescient, as fear of the virus did
eventually spread faster than the virus itself.
>There is so much blood on our President's hands that Governor Cuomo's
>hands appear clean in comparison.
President Trump did not send infected patients into nursing homes.
>hands appear clean in comparison.
>In the interim, I am simply wonderfully hungry (
>http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 ) and hope you, Michael, also have a
>healthy appetite too.
>So how are you ?
Michael
Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD
May 9, 2020, 12:26:59 PM5/9/20
to
MichaelE wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> MichaelE wrote:
>
>>> http://victorygirlsblog.com/ending-the-lockdown-is-not-selfish-nor-cruel/
>>>
>>>
>>> May 8, 2020
>>>
>>> Ending The Lockdown Is Not Selfish Nor Cruel
>>>
>>> by Nina Bookout in People 6 Comments
>>> Americans, especially Republicans, who want the lockdown ended yesterday
>>> have been labeled as selfish and cruel. That’s direct from the blue check
>>> scolding media, celebrities, and political elites.
>>>
>>> A sampling of what I’ve observed across social media follows:
>>>
>>> Ending the lockdown or refusing to wear a mask is wrong because you don’t
>>> have the right to risk someone else’s life.
>>> Ending the lockdown just so you can reopen your hair salon, restaurant,
>>> clothing boutique is incredibly arrogant, selfish, and will endanger us
>>> all.
>>> To be very blunt.
>>>
>>> The lockdown has decimated our economy.
>
>> Actually, our economic collapse started happening **before** the
>> lockdown and coincides with COVID-19 deaths happening in America.
>
> Proof?
The first known COVID-19 death in America happened on 02/06/20:
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/22/840836618/1st-known-u-s-covid-19-death-was-on-feb-6-a-post-mortem-test-reveals
The 2020 Stock Market Crash happened on 02/20/20:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_stock_market_crash
The New York State Lockdown happened on 03/20/20:
https://nypost.com/2020/03/20/coronavirus-in-ny-cuomo-orders-lockdown-shuts-down-non-essential-businesses/
Bottom line:
Lockdowns did **not** cause the collapse (aka decimation) of our U.S.
economy.
>> Moreover, complete economic recovery in America really can not happen
>> until after we overcome the COVID-19 pandemic.
>
> Most places in the U.S. have passed the peak.
We have not yet overcome the COVID-19 pandemic as evident by our
anticipating even more devastating wave(s) in-coming.
>> Link to information about how to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic:
>> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sci.med.cardiology/zBz_yxWjNbo/ksQBfRlpAgAJ
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.bible.prophecy/jWBj0I5qkII/ko1kz3SVBQAJ
While wonderfully hungry in the Holy Spirit, Who causes (Deuteronomy
8:3) us to hunger, I note that you, Michael, are rapture (Luke 17:37)
ready and pray (2 Chronicles 7:14) that our Everlasting (Isaiah 9:6)
Father in Heaven continues to give us "much more" (Luke 11:13) Holy
Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) so that we'd have much more of His Help to
always say/write that we're "wonderfully hungry" in **all** ways
including especially caring to http://bit.ly/ConvinceItForward (John
15:12 as shown by http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 ) with all glory (
http://bit.ly/Psalm117_ ) to GOD (aka HaShem, Elohim, Abba, DEO), in
the name (John 16:23) of LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen.
Laus DEO !
Be hungrier, which really is wonderfully healthier especially for
diabetics and other heart disease patients:
http://bit.ly/HeartDocAndrewToutsHunger (Luke 6:21a) with all glory to
GOD, Who causes us to hunger (Deuteronomy 8:3) when He blesses us
right now (Luke 6:21a) thereby removing the http://bit.ly/HeartVAT
from around the heart
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> MichaelE wrote:
>
>>> http://victorygirlsblog.com/ending-the-lockdown-is-not-selfish-nor-cruel/
>>>
>>>
>>> May 8, 2020
>>>
>>> Ending The Lockdown Is Not Selfish Nor Cruel
>>>
>>> by Nina Bookout in People 6 Comments
>>> Americans, especially Republicans, who want the lockdown ended yesterday
>>> have been labeled as selfish and cruel. That’s direct from the blue check
>>> scolding media, celebrities, and political elites.
>>>
>>> A sampling of what I’ve observed across social media follows:
>>>
>>> Ending the lockdown or refusing to wear a mask is wrong because you don’t
>>> have the right to risk someone else’s life.
>>> Ending the lockdown just so you can reopen your hair salon, restaurant,
>>> clothing boutique is incredibly arrogant, selfish, and will endanger us
>>> all.
>>> To be very blunt.
>>>
>>> The lockdown has decimated our economy.
>
>> Actually, our economic collapse started happening **before** the
>> lockdown and coincides with COVID-19 deaths happening in America.
>
> Proof?
The first known COVID-19 death in America happened on 02/06/20:
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/22/840836618/1st-known-u-s-covid-19-death-was-on-feb-6-a-post-mortem-test-reveals
The 2020 Stock Market Crash happened on 02/20/20:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_stock_market_crash
The New York State Lockdown happened on 03/20/20:
https://nypost.com/2020/03/20/coronavirus-in-ny-cuomo-orders-lockdown-shuts-down-non-essential-businesses/
Bottom line:
Lockdowns did **not** cause the collapse (aka decimation) of our U.S.
economy.
>> Moreover, complete economic recovery in America really can not happen
>> until after we overcome the COVID-19 pandemic.
>
> Most places in the U.S. have passed the peak.
We have not yet overcome the COVID-19 pandemic as evident by our
anticipating even more devastating wave(s) in-coming.
>> Link to information about how to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic:
>> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sci.med.cardiology/zBz_yxWjNbo/ksQBfRlpAgAJ
>
>> In the interim, I am simply wonderfully hungry (
>> http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 ) and hope you, Michael, also have a
>> healthy appetite too.
>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!
Source:
>> In the interim, I am simply wonderfully hungry (
>> http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 ) and hope you, Michael, also have a
>> healthy appetite too.
>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.bible.prophecy/jWBj0I5qkII/ko1kz3SVBQAJ
While wonderfully hungry in the Holy Spirit, Who causes (Deuteronomy
8:3) us to hunger, I note that you, Michael, are rapture (Luke 17:37)
ready and pray (2 Chronicles 7:14) that our Everlasting (Isaiah 9:6)
Father in Heaven continues to give us "much more" (Luke 11:13) Holy
Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) so that we'd have much more of His Help to
always say/write that we're "wonderfully hungry" in **all** ways
including especially caring to http://bit.ly/ConvinceItForward (John
15:12 as shown by http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 ) with all glory (
http://bit.ly/Psalm117_ ) to GOD (aka HaShem, Elohim, Abba, DEO), in
the name (John 16:23) of LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen.
Laus DEO !
Be hungrier, which really is wonderfully healthier especially for
diabetics and other heart disease patients:
http://bit.ly/HeartDocAndrewToutsHunger (Luke 6:21a) with all glory to
GOD, Who causes us to hunger (Deuteronomy 8:3) when He blesses us
right now (Luke 6:21a) thereby removing the http://bit.ly/HeartVAT
from around the heart
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