This thing with the GOP railing on Cuomo and the nursing home deaths is really starting to piss me off.
Here's the thing, COVID WAS ALREADY IN THE NURSING HOMES. That's where the people GOT sick IN THE FIRST PLACE!
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Trump left New York flapping in the breeze to deal with it on his own. There were patients doubled and tripled up in ER's and ICU's, patients lining the hallways, stuffed into transformed hospital gift shops and meeting rooms.
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I even saw stretchers of patients outside on the sidewalks! Refrigerated trucks overflowed from the dead, no ventilators, no PPE, no bed space, and as hospital staffs were desperately pleading on social media for some kind of relief,
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Kushner said it was no big deal because we are a blue state.
The Trump administration threw away the pandemic plan that was passed to them from the Obama administration and dumped the whole pandemic into the state's hands
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which had them bidding against each other to get the simplest of supplies.
I didn't hear Republicans like Tom Reed or Mark Molinaro speaking out at the time to help New York State, in fact, they were silent as
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Donald Trump shut up the medical experts and told this country his lies, that the virus was a hoax, and not to let it control your lives and the worst one of all...that masks don't work.
But now, here they are the biggest critics!
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Well, Republicans, you can take your fake indignation and stuff it because we all remember what it was like then and what you and Donald Trump did to our state when we needed you.
It's no mystery why Governor Cuomo hesitated releasing numbers...
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all it would have done is sabotage what little help we might have gotten from the federal government. Donald Trump wanted to punish our state because Andrew Cuomo said bad things about him.
You all know this it true.
@RepTomReed @marcmolinaro @NYGovCuomo 😑

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