CNN’s Chris Cuomo must be the least self-aware person on television.
The cable news anchor is giving lectures this week on proper coronavirus safety protocols. The sermonizing would not be so bad were it not for the fact that Cuomo, who claimed on March 31 that he had been diagnosed with the virus, broke quarantine on April 12 to take his family on a jaunt to East Hampton, New York, 30 minutes away from their home in Southampton. He even disparaged someone who saw him and called him out for it.
For a guy who knowingly carried the virus into another town and even admitted to it, you would think he’d be at least a little hesitant to hector other people about pandemic safety etiquette.
And you would be very, very wrong.
On Tuesday, for example, Cuomo responded to a report about quarantine protests supposedly spreading the virus by tweeting, “Please think about others.”
Please think about others https://t.co/5ICdw5zO1g
— Christopher C. Cuomo (@ChrisCuomo) April 21, 2020
You know, as in, don’t take unnecessary trips to other towns when you have the coronavirus.
Later, on Wednesday, the Washington Post published a report titled, “Las Vegas mayor: Reopen casinos, let the ones with the most infections then close.”
Cuomo shared the article, chiming in with his own brand of commentary: “Seriously? How would you like this approach with your place of work or kids’ school?”
Seriously? How would you like this approach with your place of work or kids’ school? https://t.co/7EjTBL5Mlq
— Christopher C. Cuomo (@ChrisCuomo) April 22, 2020
How did it work with East Hampton?
Cuomo is not necessarily wrong in his tweets, but where does he get off telling other people how to behave during this pandemic? And it is not just that he is lecturing others after doing the opposite. It is that he has yet to express any sort of regret that he carried the virus with him to new clusters of people in another town.
The anchor even got into a confrontation with a cyclist, who rightly demanded to know why the famous COVID-19 patient (we are assuming he was telling the truth about having the virus, of course) was breaking the quarantine rules imposed by his own brother, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. The CNN anchor later staged a scene showing himself supposedly emerging from isolation for the first time in weeks, a completely fake news event. When Cuomo claims he has spent the last couple of weeks cooped up in his basement, he is lying. By his own admission, he broke the quarantine on Easter Sunday, and who knows how many other times that he has not admitted?
Now, Cuomo is telling us that we need to be considerate and compassionate for others during these scary times. Thanks for the tip, Chris. Maybe take a bit of your own advice next time.
