Gov. Andrew Cuomo seems determined to set a new record for awful policy mishaps in one year.

First, he mandated that nursing homes expose their vulnerable populations by accepting patients with COVID-19, leading to thousands of additional deaths. Then, after writing a book and gloating about his amazing pandemic response despite his state having horrible numbers, Cuomo imposed more arbitrary and glaringly contradictory COVID-19 restrictions on New Yorkers. Most recently, he closed down New York City’s struggling restaurant industry, again, despite only 1.4% of the state’s cases being tracked back to restaurants and bars, according to his own data.