Second only to New Jersey in deaths per capita from the coronavirus, New York has suffered more than 32,000 deaths from the pandemic overall, roughly 20,000 more than any other state in the union.
And unlike other states, New York’s horrific death toll can be attributed to two specific decisions: first, Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s refusal to shut down the New York City subway system, which functioned as a petri dish of the pandemic and became a main vector of its spread, and second, his disastrous nursing home directive which forced facilities to readmit patients who tested positive for the virus, forcing the city’s most vulnerable to contract a disease that is disproportionately deadly for the elderly. To date, roughly a third of New York’s coronavirus deaths came from nursing homes.
When faced with a crisis, Cuomo failed worse than every other governor within his own state and then let his residents unleash the coronavirus on the rest of the country, where the pandemic rages on. In any sane world, Cuomo would serve the rest of his term in silence and thank his lucky stars that his disgraceful tenure as the governor who presided over 10 times more deaths than 9/11 didn’t end with Miranda from Sex and the City successfully ousting him in 2018.
Instead, the media has feted Cuomo as a coronavirus celebrity, and as daily coronavirus deaths tick back up into the thousands, the “love gov” has decided to celebrate his work in a memoir, set to come out just three weeks before Election Day.
Cuomo is either a full-scale sociopath or the media making him into their hero has deluded whatever remained of his sensibility so badly that he actually thinks more than 1 out of every 1,000 New Yorkers dying as a direct result of his decisions is a success story. Cuomo’s statements and decisions as of late have increasingly indicated the latter.
Consider, Cuomo didn’t only start selling extremely strange propaganda posters celebrating a literal mountain of death as “New York Tough” — he also autographed one brought to him by a literal reporter at an official press conference!
The Sea of Division. The Boyfriend Cliff. The Sun On The Other Side. See it all for yourself.
Pre-order the #NewYorkTough poster here:
— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) July 14, 2020
Then, in an even more bizarre speech on the first night of the Democratic National Convention, Cuomo heinously called the coronavirus “just a metaphor,” claiming it was “the symptom,” not the actual disease, which is probably racism or President Trump or a functional economy.
Simply put, Cuomo has lost his marbles. We are unironically about a step and a half away from Cuomo selling his life rights to Universal Pictures for them to cast Tom Cruise as the Democrat in some tawdry Marquez-motifed biopic called Cuomo In The Time Of Coronavirus.
The Cuomo lionzation constitutes a national delusion, a folie à mille among Democratic dilettantes, media morons, and absolutely no one else. Even in 2020, it’s a particularly sick joke standing atop a mountain of death as its punchline.
