Monday, May 03, 2021

3 May 2021: Cuomo's Deadly Directive Cost NY a House Seat

Cuomo Killed Thousands of Seniors and Lost a House Seat

This analysis links the lost of lives associated with the Cuomo administration's deadly 25 March 2020 directive to the state of New York's loss of a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives to reapportionment after the 2020 Census, after the state's population came up 89 people short.

Cuomo spent $70 million census outreach, but his horrifying policy of forcing nursing homes to accept patients infected with the coronavirus had killed untold thousands of New York seniors.

Now the census is done and New York is going to lose a House seat by 89 people.

“We’re looking at legal options, because when you’re talking about 89, that could be a minor mistake in counting,” Cuomo whined....

Even 0.5% of the 15,000 nursing home patients dead on Cuomo’s watch might have saved the House seat. If Cuomo had been 0.5% less of a psychopath, New York might have kept its seat.

It could have. If not for the Cuomo administration's deadly directive forcing New York nursing homes to blindly admit patients known to have coronavirus infections to free up bed space at hospitals where they had been treated, which resulted in an estimated 1,000 more COVID deaths among New York nursing home residents than would have happened without it, New York would have 27 seats allocated to it in the U.S. House of Representatives instead of the 26 it will have beginning in 2022.

The analysis recognizes a special irony:

Cuomo had responded to nursing home deaths by arguing, “Who cares [if they] died in the hospital, died in a nursing home? They died.”

Finally, after thousands died and 89 were missed in the census, he has a reason to care.

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