23 April 2020: Disturbing News and Misplaced Priorities

Coronavirus patients admitted to Queens nursing home — with body bags

This is easily the most disturbing report to come out of New York with respect to Governor Cuomo's and his administration's coronavirus epidemic policies. Here's the introduction:

The first coronavirus patients admitted to a Queens nursing home under a controversial state mandate arrived along with some grim accessories — a supply of body bags, The Post has learned.

An executive at the facility — which was previously free of the deadly disease — said the bags were in the shipment of personal protective equipment received the same day the home was forced to begin treating two people discharged from hospitals with COVID-19.

“My colleague noticed that one of the boxes was extremely heavy. Curious as to what could possibly be making that particular box so much heavier than the rest, he opened it,” the exec told The Post Thursday.

“The first two coronavirus patients were accompanied by five body bags.”

That's quite an indication what state officials expected would happen from the implementation of the Cuomo administration's policy. If that is indeed how the policy was implemented, it's no wonder Governor Cuomo is seeking to deflect attention away from it, which perhaps explains the next headline....

N.Y. Gov. Cuomo says state nursing homes will be investigated

But only privately-run nursing homes. Nursing homes run by the state of New York will not be investigated. Oddly enough, Governor Cuomo also did not initiate an investigation of his administration or its policies.