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New York State Public Health Law § 2800.

Declaration of policy and statement of purpose.

Hospital and related services including health-related service of the highest quality, efficiently provided and properly utilized at a reasonable cost, are of vital concern to the public health.

In order to provide for the protection and promotion of the health of the inhabitants of the state, pursuant to section three of article seventeen of the constitution, the department of health shall have the central, comprehensive responsibility for the development and administration of the state's policy with respect to hospital and related services, and all public and private institutions, whether state, county, municipal, incorporated or not incorporated, serving principally as facilities for the prevention, diagnosis or treatment of human disease, pain, injury, deformity or physical condition or for the rendering of health-related service shall be subject to the provisions of this article.


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WHAT A DRAMA QUEEN THIS CUOMO IS AND ALL TO SCORE HIM SOME CHEAP POLITICAL POINTS AS HE MAKES HIS BID THROUGH THE COVID HYSTERIA HE HAS WHIPPED UP TO BE THE DEMOCRAT PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDER IN NOVEMBER 2020 …

AND THE REASON HE IS SHORT OF SUPPLIES IS BECAUSE HIS ADMINISTRATION IS INCOMPETENT AND INEPT AND HIS PATRONAGE-MILL HEALTH DEPARTMENT WHICH HAS OVERSIGHT RESPONSIBILITY FOR HOSPITALS IS CORRUPT ...

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"Gov. Cuomo says $2 trillion stimulus bill is ‘terrible’ for New York"


By Beckie Strum

Published: March 25, 2020 at 3:50 p.m. ET

Gov. Andrew Cuomo ripped the U.S. Senate’s $2 trillion federal stimulus plan on Wednesday as inadequate for New York, the country’s epicenter of the COVID-19 crisis, while he renewed calls for the 15,000 ventilators the state will need in the next few weeks for the mounting victims of the virus.

“It would really be terrible,” Cuomo said in a news conference, adding that the state government would get $3.8 billion and New York City would get only $1.3 billion, despite having more people with coronavirus than anywhere else in the U.S.

As of Wednesday morning,15,597 people had tested positive for the coronavirus in New York City, seven times the number of cases in all of California, and 192 have died.

Though “$3.8 billion sounds like a lot of money,” New York is looking at a budget shortfall between $8 billion and $15 billion, he said.

The virus has already cost the state roughly $1 billion and could wind up costing several billion dollars by the end of the crisis, he added.

The Senate planned to vote Wednesday on the $2 trillion stimulus package, the biggest relief in American history, finalized in the wee hours of Tuesday night between senators and the White House.

It was still hitting snags ahead of the vote as critics, like Cuomo, demanded changes.

The House has not said when it would vote on the bill, which would then go to President Trump to sign.

Cuomo, who said he’d been in conversations Wednesday morning with the White House about ventilators, said New York needed help acquiring the lifesaving machines.

He’s proposed a “rolling” system where ventilators are brought to New York to handle the immediate crisis and then shipped to the next hot spot as the disease ravages other parts of the country.

“We’re asking the country to help us, we will return the favor with dividends,” he said.

So far, the state has purchased 7,000 ventilators since the start of the crisis, will get another 4,000 from the federal government and has about 4,000 already, bringing the total to 15,000.

But the state still needs approximately 15,000 more to deal with the surge in intensive care patients expected to inundate hospitals in the next two-to-three weeks.

“We have purchased everything that can be purchased,” Cuomo said.

The $2 trillion stimulus package, brokered between the Senate and the Trump administration, is the largest fiscal stimulus package in U.S. history, expanding unemployment benefits and providing loans and grants to businesses.

The package includes a $1,200 direct payment to all taxpayers making under $75,000 a year ($150,000 for couples), and $500 per child.

It also increases the maximum unemployment benefit by $600 a week, which would more than double the current maximum weekly rate of $505 in New York state to more than $1,100 a week.

At the final hour, Senate Democrats pushed for funding for local governments.

New York City’s $1.3 billion share will come out of a $150 billion allocation Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said will go toward states and counties.

“State revenues have dried up almost overnight, leaving them with untenable choices about how to allocate their health care and other resources,” Schumer said while speaking on the floor of the Senate ahead of the vote on Wednesday.

Additional funds will go specifically to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), which runs the city’s subways and buses, through a separate $25 million pot dedicated to public transit systems, Schumer said.

Ridership on New York City’s subway, which has reduced service to 75%, has plunged as nonessential businesses have shuttered and New Yorkers stay home, starving the already ailing MTA of revenue.

“The MTA is drowning after such a steep and sudden loss of ridership,” Schumer said.

It wasn’t immediately clear how much will go to the MTA, but the organization has said it could lose $3.7 billion in revenue if ridership remains at its current level for several months.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES

"E.P.A., Citing Coronavirus, Drastically Relaxes Rules for Polluters - One former senior E.P.A. official called the move 'a nationwide waiver of environmental rules.'”


By Lisa Friedman

March 26, 2020

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday announced a sweeping relaxation of environmental rules in response to the coronavirus pandemic, allowing power plants, factories and other facilities to determine for themselves if they are able to meet legal requirements on reporting air and water pollution.

The move comes amid an influx of requests from businesses for a relaxation of regulations as they face layoffs, personnel restrictions and other problems related to the coronavirus outbreak.

Issued by the E.P.A.’s top compliance official, Susan P. Bodine, the policy sets new guidelines for companies to monitor themselves for an undetermined period of time during the outbreak and says that the agency will not issue fines for violations of certain air, water and hazardous-waste-reporting requirements.

Companies are normally required to report when their factories discharge certain levels of pollution into the air or water.

“In general, the E.P.A. does not expect to seek penalties for violations of routine compliance monitoring, integrity testing, sampling, laboratory analysis, training, and reporting or certification obligations in situations where the E.P.A. agrees that Covid-19 was the cause of the noncompliance and the entity provides supporting documentation to the E.P.A. upon request,” the order states.

It said the agency’s focus during the outbreak would be “on situations that may create an acute risk or imminent threat to public health or the environment” and said it would exercise “discretion” in enforcing other environmental rules.

The order asks companies to “act responsibly” if they cannot currently comply with rules that require them to monitor or report the release of hazardous air pollution.

Businesses, it said, should “minimize the effects and duration of any noncompliance” and keep records to report to the agency how Covid-19 restrictions prevented them from meeting pollution rules.

“E.P.A. is committed to protecting human health and the environment, but recognizes challenges resulting from efforts to protect workers and the public from Covid-19 may directly impact the ability of regulated facilities to meet all federal regulatory requirements,” Andrew R. Wheeler, the E.P.A. administrator, said in a statement.

Environmental groups and former Obama administration officials described the policy as an unprecedented relaxation of rules for petrochemical plants and other major polluters.

Gina McCarthy, who led the E.P.A. under the Obama administration and now serves as president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, called it “an open license to pollute.”

She said that while individual companies might need flexibility, “this brazen directive is nothing short of an abject abdication of the E.P.A. mission to protect our well being.’’

Cynthia Giles, who headed the E.P.A. enforcement division during the Obama administration, said: “This is essentially a nationwide waiver of environmental rules."

"It is so far beyond any reasonable response I am just stunned.”

Other observers defended the move.

Granta Nakayama, a partner at the law firm King & Spalding who served in the E.P.A.’s office of compliance under President George W. Bush, said the memo did not give companies a free pass to pollute, but rather provided guidance in a challenging situation where many industries are facing unique circumstances.

“It’s a very straightforward and sensible, in my view, guidance,” he said.

Agency officials said the new policy relaxes compliance for monitoring and reporting only so that facilities can concentrate on ensuring that their pollution-control equipment remains safe and operational.

“It is not a nationwide waiver of environmental rules,” said Andrea Woods, an E.P.A. spokeswoman.

“For situations outside of routine monitoring and reporting, the agency has reserved its authorities and will take the pandemic into account on a case-by-case basis.”

The memo said the compliance changes were retroactive to March 13.

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New York State Public Health Law § 2100:

1. Every local board of health and every health officer shall guard against the introduction of such communicable diseases as are designated in the sanitary code, by the exercise of proper and vigilant medical inspection and control of all persons and things infected with or exposed to such diseases.

2. Every local board of health and every health officer may:

(a) provide for care and isolation of cases of communicable disease in a hospital or elsewhere when necessary for protection of the public health and,

(b) subject to the provisions of the sanitary code, prohibit and prevent all intercourse and communication with or use of infected premises, places and things, and require, and if necessary, provide the means for the thorough purification and cleansing of the same before general intercourse with the same or use thereof shall be allowed.


RENSSELAER COUNTY IS ONE OF THE MOST CORRUPT AND INCOMPETENTLY MANAGED COUNTIES IN AMERICA, IF NOT THE WORLD, SO THIS IS NOT AT ALL SURPRISING, GIVEN THAT RENSSELAER COUNTY GUTTED AND DISMANTLED ITS FUNCTIONING HEALTH DEPARTMENT BACK IN THE 1980s AND PUT A PATHETIC, INEPT PATRONAGE MILL IN ITS PLACE ...

"Rensselaer and Albany counties sort out COVID-19 communication issues - Delay in sharing information about positive cases raises concern"


By Kenneth C. Crowe II and Steve Hughes

Updated 7:07 pm EDT, Wednesday, April 15, 2020

EAST GREENBUSH – Rensselaer County officials were angered when they found out Tuesday night that they weren’t immediately told that five people who work in the county – including at least two at a coronavirus hotspot and another who works at one of the county’s busiest stores – but live in Albany County where they tested positive for COVID-19 until long after the results came back.

Two of the five people work at Diamond Hill Nursing and Rehabilitation in Schaghticoke, where three residents have died from COVID-19, county sources said.


The third person is an assistant manager at the busy Walmart on Route 4, where a cashier who lives in Rensselaer County also tested positive.

It was not immediately known where the other two individuals work.

Rensselaer County Executive Steve McLaughlin said the county learned from a resident about the April 1 positive test result of a Walmart assistant manager who resides in Colonie.

This information was revealed only after the county announced Tuesday that the cashier, who lives in North Greenbush, had tested positive April 14 and issued a warning to county residents who shopped there.

"We are disappointed that Rensselaer County was not informed of this first case, as is both needed and required in these situations."

"Valuable time was lost because notice was not given to our Health Department of this case from April 1 involving an employee at the East Greenbush Walmart," McLaughlin said.

This left Albany County officials to explain Wednesday morning why they had not followed the requirements to notify neighboring counties so health officials could seek to identify people who may have been in contact with the person who contracted COVID-19.

“We’re working in a partnership to get things done."

"It’s a different time that we’re in."

"We cross our Ts and dot our Is."

"If something fell through the cracks, then it did and we’ll make sure it doesn’t happen again in the future,” Albany County Executive Dan McCoy said Wednesday at his daily press conference on the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on the county.

“Everyone needs to take a deep breath and work together."

"We don’t need fingerpointing at this point in time,” McCoy said.

Albany County Health Commissioner Elizabeth Whalen added that public comments from Rensselaer County were made before her counterpart in Rensselaer County reached out to her.

“I have absolutely no doubt that if she reached out to me first, we could have clarified what was done at the county level, which was entirely appropriate and there would not have been that need to issue that."

Rensselaer County Director of Operations Richard Crist said the county shouldn’t be relying on residents to tell the county about test results.

"We are disappointed some needed information regarding confirmed cases were not shared by the Albany County Health Department and there was an unfortunate delay in responding."


"We have shared our concerns with the Albany County Health Department, and want to improve cooperation and communication with that department as we move forward and jointly deal with this serious illness," Crist said.

Crist said it was the residents’ notification that allowed the county to do its public health work.

The second Walmart case led county officials to visit the East Greenbush Walmart Wednesday and to schedule a trip Thursday to the Walmart on Route 7 in Brunswick.

East Greenbush Supervisor Jack Conway and Brunswick Supervisor Phil Herrington have raised questions about the crowds at the Walmarts in their respective towns.

“This has been a problem."

"Walmart and Target, in my opinion, are just too crowded,” Conway said.

“We get calls that there’s a lot of people in the Walmart and cars in the parking lot,” Herrington said.

The status of the Walmart has been the subject of speculation on social media that it would close if five to seven employees were infected.

The county said this was unfounded and not true.

McLaughlin said Wednesday afternoon during his daily Facebook briefing that he, Crist, Public Health Director Mary Fran Wachunas and Jim Gordon, the purchasing director, visited the East Greenbush Walmart.

The Walmart management is counting shoppers as they come in and out of the store, McLaughlin said.

When the four officials were there at about noon Wednesday the store had a count about 360 people inside.

“There’s no investigation needed."

"They’re doing the social distancing and cleaning,” McLaughlin said about the 200,000-square-foot superstore.

A check of the store after the county visit showed nearly every employee wearing masks and gloves.

Many customers appeared to be wearing masks.

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"‘It’s a complete abomination’ says Wall Street money manager about hedge funds applying for bailouts from small-business recovery funds"


By Mark DeCambre

Published: April 15, 2020 at 2:44 p.m. ET

‘It’s a complete abomination.’

That’s Nate Koppikar, a partner at Orso Partners, as quoted in a Bloomberg News article on Tuesday expressing his displeasure with the prospect of hedge funds claiming bailout money intended to help cash-strapped small businesses in the throes of a deep recession wrought by the outbreak of COVID-19.


The Bloomberg article makes the case that hedge funds, which tend to charge 2% fees for managing other people’s money and take 20% of the profits from their bets, are enticed by the roughly $350 billion recovery package that offers loans to cover everything from payroll to rent and utilities for hair salons, restaurants and other businesses that have been bludgeoned by forced closures to help mitigate the spread of the infectious disease that was first identified in Wuhan, China, in December and has now infected nearly 2 million people globally.

The story hits upon a raging debate on Wall Street about whether hedge funds should avail themselves of bailout funds during the pandemic, which has hit nearly every corner of the economy and threatens to throw the U.S. into one of its deepest recessions in generations.

Chamath Palihapitiya, chief executive of venture-capital firm Social Capital LP, last week argued that the Fed’s massive coronavirus stimulus package helps the ultrarich at the expense of ordinary American workers.

“On Main Street today, people are getting wiped out right now — rich CEOs are not, boards that have horrible governance are not."

"People are,” Palihapitiya said last Thursday on CNBC’s “Fast Money Halftime Report.”


“Just to be clear on who we are talking about."

"We’re talking about a hedge fund that serves a bunch of billionaire family offices."

"Who cares?"

"They don’t get the summer in the Hamptons?” Palihapitiya said.

“Who cares?"

"Let them get wiped out.”

Over the past three weeks, the U.S. job market has suffered more than 16 million job losses.

Bloomberg reported that some hedge funds already have applied for small-business aid, certifying that the “current economic uncertainty makes this loan request necessary to support the ongoing operations.”

Broadly speaking, markets have been rocked by the outbreak of the contagion, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&P 500 index and the Nasdaq Composite Index all falling by at least 20% from their February peaks before staging a recovery off the lows hit on March 23.

In theory, the current environment for hedge funds should be favorable to stock picking, compared with the period that preceded this current environment, where hedge funds failed to outperform market benchmarks.

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ANDY CUOMO, WHO IS IN WAY OVER HIS HEAD, IS GETTING QUITE SHRILL AND HYSTERICAL-SOUNDING HERE, ALMOST AS IF HE IS ACTUALLY WHINING ...

MARKETWATCH

"New York Gov. Cuomo hits back at Trump after president posts critical tweets during Cuomo’s coronavirus briefing"


By Ciara Linnane

Published: April 17, 2020 at 3:26 p.m. ET

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo lashed back at tweets sent by President Donald Trump during his daily press briefing Friday criticizing the governor for complaining about the lack of federal funds for testing for COVID-19 and for states facing the challenge of reopening for business after weeks on lockdown to arrest the spread of the coronavirus.

‘If he’s sitting home watching TV, maybe he should get up and go to work.’

— Gov. Andrew Cuomo .

Cuomo has for days insisted that the federal government is failing states, which are facing massive budget deficits in the midst of the pandemic as revenue sources dry up while costs balloon.

The National Governors Association has requested $500 billion in federal aid, but in the three stimulus bills that have been approved not a penny has been allocated to the states.

New York state is facing a deficit of $10 billion to $15 billion, money it will need to reopen schools, maintain its public-transport systems and fund hospitals, which are still full of patients suffering from COVID-19.

New York is the epicenter of the U.S. outbreak with more than 223,000 positive cases of the illness and more than 14,800 deaths.


“Don’t pass the buck without passing the bucks,” said Cuomo, adding that putting the burden on states without funding “is the opposite of [the Harry Truman motto] ‘The buck stops here.’ ”

Cuomo defended himself by saying he has repeatedly thanked Trump for two things: government help in expanding hospital bed capacity, by adding 2,500 beds at the Javits Center, a major conference and exhibition space; and sending the Navy’s USNS Comfort to New York Harbor last month to add extra capacity.

Trump complained that most of those beds were not used.

“He’s wrong ... Javits treated 800 people, and it’s disrespectful to dismiss them,” said Cuomo.

The president is implying that the request for extra capacity was not valid, but the projections that New York used to estimate its needs were provided by the federal government and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a federal agency, said Cuomo, who also projected slides at the daily briefing showing the CDC forecasts in question.

“If the projections were high, they were the president’s projections,” said Cuomo.

“So for him to say to anyone, ‘You relied on projections. and they were wrong’ — they were yours, Mr. President.”

Trump has said he does not want to help states with testing, which public health officials agree is a linchpin of the effort to safely reopen states and avoid a second wave of infections.

“He said it’s too complicated, and it’s too hard,” said Cuomo.

“And it is!"

"And that’s why I need help."

"He wants to say, ‘I did enough,’ but no one has done enough, because this is not over; we’ve a lot more to do, and nobody can take the posture, ‘Just say thank you, and I’m not doing any more.’"

"What if I said that?”

The CDC on March 13 said it expected 160 million to 240 million Americans to be infected with the coronavirus, and that 2.4 million to 21 million Americans would need to be hospitalized.

The U.S. had a capacity of just 900,000 hospital beds at the time, said Cuomo.

Cuomo went on to quote a memo sent by Trump adviser Peter Navarro to the president in January in which Navarro warned that the pandemic could cause 100 million infections and the loss of 1.2 million lives.

Trump has claimed he never saw the Navarro memo.

“Blame the CDC, blame Navarro and whoever else is on the White House task force” if the numbers were wrong,” said Cuomo.

“But if the testing doesn’t work, that’s a serious problem.”

Trump and Cuomo clashed earlier this week over who is responsible for reopening the economy.

The president, who had earlier claimed “absolute authority,” released guidelines for the states on Thursday that no longer asserted executive-branch control over governors’ decisions.

These guidelines did not include a time frame.

The governor is planning to sign an executive order requiring private and public laboratories to work together with New York’s Department of Public Health to increase testing capabilities.

The U.S. has the most COVID-19 cases of any country at 672,293 and the most fatalities at 33,898, according to data aggregated by Johns Hopkins University.

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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR April 22, 2020 at 11:00 am

Paul Plante says:

Talk about a thread shining a spotlight on muck needing to be raked, and raked real good, right down to the bedrock, and a can of worms needing its lid ripped off, but good, it is this thread concerning what is going on in New York, where it is now quite possible and very probable that the wits of Andy Cuomo, the autocratic, tyrannical, dictatorial Democratic Socialist governor of the state, have slipped their moorings, rendering Andy, who according to the knowledgeable Albany, New York Times Union, rules by fear, likely as insane as was George III of England at the time of the American Revolution, or Saddam Hussein when he tried to make Kuwait another province of Iraq.

As a former public health engineer in corrupt New York, I have been combing though as many news clippings as I can find on the internet in order to put together a chronology of the events leading up to what can only be called a fiasco and cluster**** after the CDC sent out an alert about COVID on 8 January 2020 to state and local health officers, state and local epidemiologists, state and local laboratory directors, public information officers, HAN coordinators, and clinician organizations.

So there is a key date in this puzzle – 8 January 2020, the alarm buzzer was sounded, or at least somebody pressed the button with that alert, which would have gone to not only the state health commissioner, a worthless lackey of Andy Cuomo’s, but right down to every county health officer, of which I used to be one, so I know the warning system quite well, as well as knowing that in New York, that system has largely been gutted by Andy Cuomo and his father Mario, but that is old news now, we know the system is broken, so moving right along, we come to an article in the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle entitled “Coronavirus deaths in New York projected at 16,000 or more; NYC patients moved upstate” by Joseph Spector on April 1, 2020, which is 83 days AFTER the initial CDC alert, where we were informed as follows concerning the numbers:

ALBANY – 16,000 deaths in New York.

That was the sobering projection Gov. Andrew Cuomo displayed Wednesday as the coronavirus death toll in New York approached 2,000 and New York City hospitals started shipping patients for the first time upstate.

“This virus has been ahead of us since day one,” Cuomo said at his daily briefing at the state Capitol.

Cuomo based his remarks off of modeling done by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, founded by Bill and Melinda Gates that estimated about 100,000 deaths nationwide as the virus spreads across the U.S.

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So there is where Andy is getting his numbers from, and having been very vocal about those numbers, now Andy has to defend them, lest he look like he doesn’t know what he is talking about, which takes us back to that statement about “New York City hospitals started shipping patients for the first time upstate,” and from there to an article in Saratoga Living entitled “Governor Cuomo: COVID-19 Patients From NYC Have Been Moved To Albany Med” by Will Levith on 1 April 2020, to wit:

According to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, the Capital Region is now offering up care and hospital beds to New York City COVID-19 patients.

In his April 1 press conference, the governor was asked by a journalist whether patients in New York City had been moved to Albany Medical Center and Ellis Hospital in Schenectady, and Cuomo responded “yes,” at least to the Albany Med question.

“This is one state, this is one family of New York,” said Cuomo.

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If somebody wanted or needed any more proof that Cuomo is insane, they need go no further than that statement right there about “(T)his is one state, this is one family of New York,” so that in the mind of Andy Cuomo, the right thing to do, in the language of Hussein Obama, is to ship COVID patients including the NYC homeless out of NYC to upstate, which is largely rural, to insure its spread throughout the whole state, as we can see from a WGRZ article entitled “Every county in NYS now has confirmed case of coronavirus (COVID-19)” on April 2, 2020, to wit:

ALBANY, N.Y. — Every county in NYS now has a confirmed case of coronavirus (COVID-19).

That’s according to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.

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Every county in New York state, many of them rural, now have COVID because Andy Cuomo made sure they would by sending out COVID patients from NYC like “smallpox blankets” to insure its spread, which goes against everything in the Public Health Law, which Andy has scrapped along with our Constitution, which takes us back to a NEWSWEEK article entitled “New York Governor Dismisses Rumors About NYC Quarantine, Says ‘I Have No Interest'” by Jenni Fink on 3/17/20, 69 days AFTER the CDC alert on 8 January, to wit:

As New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio floated the possibility of a “shelter in place” order, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo denied that a full-blown lockdown of the Big Apple was looming.

New York state has had the largest outbreak of cases in the U.S. and rumors of officials locking down New York City have been swirling for days, causing some to leave the city or stockpile supplies.

On Tuesday, Cuomo adamantly dismissed the rumors, saying they were “not true” and were being fueled by people’s fears and anxieties.

He claimed that it cannot happen legally because implementing a quarantine would require state approval and he has “no interest” and “no plan” to quarantine any city in the state because he does not want to incite panic.

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Right after that, not surprisingly, and this is according to published statistics available to anyone who wants to take the time to wade through all this bull**** from Andy Cuomo, COVID began a rapid spread in upstate counties 160 miles to the north of NYC, and now, it is everywhere.

And that is only the beginning of this sorry tale of what happens when a people put someone insane in positions of power over them.

This really has nothing to do with public health anymore – rather, it has become political, with Andy Cuomo now becoming the face of the Democrat party push against Trump, who had absolutely no role to play here, as we see by going back to the language of the CDC alert, to wit:

This message was distributed to state and local health officers, state and local epidemiologists, state and local laboratory directors, public information officers, HAN coordinators, and clinician organizations.

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Andy Cuomo has become the next Democrat in line to gain national attention in attacking Trump, who didn’t drop any balls here, because he wasn’t even on the playing field, after Adam Schiff, the smarmy and unctuous Democrat congressman from Hollywood and Disneyland, made a complete fool of himself and the Democrats with their failed attempt to impeach Trump, and being the political hack that he is, Cuomo and the Democrats have to push this COVID crisis created by Andy Cuomo as far as they can leading up to the November presidential elections, and they need to jack the numbers up, by hook or crook, those time-tested Democrat methods, to make Trump look as bad as they can, as if those deaths were the fault of Trump, and not Andy Cuomo, who is being made out by the fawning, cowardly, sycophantic main-stream media as the KNIGHT IN WHITE SHINING ARMOR riding in on his white horse to save the day.

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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR April 22, 2020 at 11:00 am

Paul Plante says:

Talk about a thread shining a spotlight on muck needing to be raked, and raked real good, right down to the bedrock, and a can of worms needing its lid ripped off, but good, it is this thread concerning what is going on in New York, where it is now quite possible and very probable that the wits of Andy Cuomo, the autocratic, tyrannical, dictatorial Democratic Socialist governor of the state, have slipped their moorings, rendering Andy, who according to the knowledgeable Albany, New York Times Union, rules by fear, likely as insane as was George III of England at the time of the American Revolution, or Saddam Hussein when he tried to make Kuwait another province of Iraq.

As a former public health engineer in corrupt New York, I have been combing though as many news clippings as I can find on the internet in order to put together a chronology of the events leading up to what can only be called a fiasco and cluster**** after the CDC sent out an alert about COVID on 8 January 2020 to state and local health officers, state and local epidemiologists, state and local laboratory directors, public information officers, HAN coordinators, and clinician organizations.

So there is a key date in this puzzle – 8 January 2020, the alarm buzzer was sounded, or at least somebody pressed the button with that alert, which would have gone to not only the state health commissioner, a worthless lackey of Andy Cuomo’s, but right down to every county health officer, of which I used to be one, so I know the warning system quite well, as well as knowing that in New York, that system has largely been gutted by Andy Cuomo and his father Mario, but that is old news now, we know the system is broken, so moving right along, we come to an article in the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle entitled “Coronavirus deaths in New York projected at 16,000 or more; NYC patients moved upstate” by Joseph Spector on April 1, 2020, which is 83 days AFTER the initial CDC alert, where we were informed as follows concerning the numbers:

ALBANY – 16,000 deaths in New York.

That was the sobering projection Gov. Andrew Cuomo displayed Wednesday as the coronavirus death toll in New York approached 2,000 and New York City hospitals started shipping patients for the first time upstate.

“This virus has been ahead of us since day one,” Cuomo said at his daily briefing at the state Capitol.

Cuomo based his remarks off of modeling done by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, founded by Bill and Melinda Gates that estimated about 100,000 deaths nationwide as the virus spreads across the U.S.

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So there is where Andy is getting his numbers from, and having been very vocal about those numbers, now Andy has to defend them, lest he look like he doesn’t know what he is talking about, which takes us back to that statement about “New York City hospitals started shipping patients for the first time upstate,” and from there to an article in Saratoga Living entitled “Governor Cuomo: COVID-19 Patients From NYC Have Been Moved To Albany Med” by Will Levith on 1 April 2020, to wit:

According to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, the Capital Region is now offering up care and hospital beds to New York City COVID-19 patients.

In his April 1 press conference, the governor was asked by a journalist whether patients in New York City had been moved to Albany Medical Center and Ellis Hospital in Schenectady, and Cuomo responded “yes,” at least to the Albany Med question.

“This is one state, this is one family of New York,” said Cuomo.

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If somebody wanted or needed any more proof that Cuomo is insane, they need go no further than that statement right there about “(T)his is one state, this is one family of New York,” so that in the mind of Andy Cuomo, the right thing to do, in the language of Hussein Obama, is to ship COVID patients including the NYC homeless out of NYC to upstate, which is largely rural, to insure its spread throughout the whole state, as we can see from a WGRZ article entitled “Every county in NYS now has confirmed case of coronavirus (COVID-19)” on April 2, 2020, to wit:

ALBANY, N.Y. — Every county in NYS now has a confirmed case of coronavirus (COVID-19).

That’s according to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.

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Every county in New York state, many of them rural, now have COVID because Andy Cuomo made sure they would by sending out COVID patients from NYC like “smallpox blankets” to insure its spread, which goes against everything in the Public Health Law, which Andy has scrapped along with our Constitution, which takes us back to a NEWSWEEK article entitled “New York Governor Dismisses Rumors About NYC Quarantine, Says ‘I Have No Interest'” by Jenni Fink on 3/17/20, 69 days AFTER the CDC alert on 8 January, to wit:

As New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio floated the possibility of a “shelter in place” order, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo denied that a full-blown lockdown of the Big Apple was looming.

New York state has had the largest outbreak of cases in the U.S. and rumors of officials locking down New York City have been swirling for days, causing some to leave the city or stockpile supplies.

On Tuesday, Cuomo adamantly dismissed the rumors, saying they were “not true” and were being fueled by people’s fears and anxieties.

He claimed that it cannot happen legally because implementing a quarantine would require state approval and he has “no interest” and “no plan” to quarantine any city in the state because he does not want to incite panic.

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Right after that, not surprisingly, and this is according to published statistics available to anyone who wants to take the time to wade through all this bull**** from Andy Cuomo, COVID began a rapid spread in upstate counties 160 miles to the north of NYC, and now, it is everywhere.

And that is only the beginning of this sorry tale of what happens when a people put someone insane in positions of power over them.

This really has nothing to do with public health anymore – rather, it has become political, with Andy Cuomo now becoming the face of the Democrat party push against Trump, who had absolutely no role to play here, as we see by going back to the language of the CDC alert, to wit:

This message was distributed to state and local health officers, state and local epidemiologists, state and local laboratory directors, public information officers, HAN coordinators, and clinician organizations.

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Andy Cuomo has become the next Democrat in line to gain national attention in attacking Trump, who didn’t drop any balls here, because he wasn’t even on the playing field, after Adam Schiff, the smarmy and unctuous Democrat congressman from Hollywood and Disneyland, made a complete fool of himself and the Democrats with their failed attempt to impeach Trump, and being the political hack that he is, Cuomo and the Democrats have to push this COVID crisis created by Andy Cuomo as far as they can leading up to the November presidential elections, and they need to jack the numbers up, by hook or crook, those time-tested Democrat methods, to make Trump look as bad as they can, as if those deaths were the fault of Trump, and not Andy Cuomo, who is being made out by the fawning, cowardly, sycophantic main-stream media as the KNIGHT IN WHITE SHINING ARMOR riding in on his white horse to save the day.


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THE CDC BLEW THE OFFICIAL BUGLE ON COVID ON 8 JANUARY 2020 AND ANDY CUOMO AND HIS HEALTH COMMISSIONER HOWIE ZUCKER SIMPLY IGNORED IT ...

AXIOS

"Cuomo wishes he 'blew the bugle' sooner on coronavirus"


Jonathan Swan

28 APRIL 2020

In an interview for "Axios on HBO," New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo told me he wishes he had sounded the alarm sooner about the coronavirus.

Why it matters:

The coronavirus has now killed more than 22,000 New Yorkers, giving Cuomo's state the worst death toll in the world — vastly worse than other dense global cities like Tokyo and Seoul.

And yet in managing the crisis, Cuomo has been widely praised, and he's become a fan favorite for Democrats around the country.

The big picture:

I asked Cuomo what he wishes he could change about his response to the virus.

His response was revealing:

"When we heard in December that China had a virus problem, and China said basically, 'it was under control, don't worry,' we should've worried."

"When China says, 'Don't worry, I have a fire in my backyard,' you don't hang up the phone and go back to sleep, right?"

"You get out of your house and you walk two houses over to make sure I have the fire under control."

"Where was every other country walking out of their home to make sure China had it under control?"

"I wish someone stood up and blew the bugle."

"And if no one was going to blow the bugle, I would feel much better if I was a bugle blower last December and January."

"... I would feel better sitting here today saying, 'I blew the bugle about Wuhan province in January.'"

"I can't say that."


In fact, on Jan. 30, the World Health Organization declared the virus an international public health emergency.

And on Feb. 25, the CDC warned Americans to prepare for the inevitability of community spread.

But on March 2, Cuomo was projecting confidence about the virus.

He said because of his "arrogance" about New York having the best health care system in the world, he didn't "even think it’s going to be as bad as it was in other countries."


And as late as March 19 — the day before he finally announced a stay-at-home order — Cuomo was still saying that "in many ways, the fear is more dangerous than the virus."

(Though by then Cuomo had closed schools and major gatherings.)

Between the lines:

In our interview, Cuomo talked about the nature of leadership in a crisis.

And I pressed him on why COVID-19 was so much better at killing Americans than Germans, and so much better at killing New Yorkers than people living in Tokyo and Seoul.

Cuomo said Americans won't tolerate the "social constraints" that citizens of those countries have tolerated.

He said that as we spoke, he could hear the protesters outside protesting the constraints he's imposed upon New Yorkers to protect them from the virus.

I asked Cuomo what he would say to Americans who feel like their state and federal governments have failed to keep them safe.

Cuomo insisted that New Yorkers don't feel their government has let them down, and that sentiment was "an internationalist's perspective."

"I don't think New Yorkers feel or Americans feel that government failed them here," he said.

"I think they feel good about what government has done."

"... Their health care system did respond."


"This was not Italy, with all due respect."

"... There were not people in hallways who didn't get health care treatment."

"Government didn't cause or allow anyone to die."

"They're more interested in solidarity."

"And I think that's where people are now."

"You may be right down the road, but they're not there today."

What's next:

Cuomo said he thinks Americans will push leaders to do a better job next time a pandemic arrives on our shores.

"The old stereotype going back 20 years, well, leaders lead."

"Political leaders lead."

"Maybe," Cuomo said.

"But maybe even more often society leads, people lead, and politicians follow."

"This will change society."

"Society will not allow this to happen again."

"They will want to be more prepared."

"They will want to move more quickly."

"And government will follow that social instinct."

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"Cuomo speaks of his fears during New York’s coronavirus pandemic: ‘I had two nightmares when this started’"


By Quentin Fottrell

Published: April 28, 2020 at 4:41 p.m. ET

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo spoke about the dark dreams that haunted him during the early stages of COVID-19 in New York, the epicenter of the virus in the U.S.

‘I can’t remember when government was more disruptive to individual life,’ New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday.


New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has had sleepless nights, but two of them have haunted him.

“I had two nightmares when this started,” he told his daily press briefing.

“One that I would put out directives on what we need to do, and 19 million New Yorkers would say, ‘I haven't been convinced, I’m not going to do this.’”


He added, “I can’t remember when government was more disruptive to individual life."

"What if New Yorkers said, ‘It’s too much, it’s an overreaction, it’s political.’”

‘They have honor in their souls and dignity in their character.’

— New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on essential workers during the pandemic .

“My second nightmare was: What if the essential workers don’t show up?” the governor said Tuesday.

“You have to have food, you have to have transportation, the lights have to be on, someone has to pick up the garbage, the hospitals have to run."

"What if you communicated so effectively, the essential workers say, ‘If everyone is staying home, I’m staying home too.’”

“What if they said, ‘You don’t pay me enough to put my life in danger?'"

"'I’m not doing it.’"

"They showed up."

"They didn’t show up for a pay check."

"They didn’t show up because government asked them to show up,” he said.

“They showed up out of their honor, out of their values, out of their dignity."

"That’s why they showed up.” He added, “They have honor in their souls and strength in their character.”

As of Tuesday, 5.6 million people had been tested in the U.S. for SARS-CoV-2.

There were 1,004,908 confirmed cases, and 57,812 deaths, of which 17,682 were in New York City, the epicenter of the pandemic in the U.S.

Worldwide, there were 3,094,829 confirmed cases and 215,461 deaths.

Cuomo said 335 people had died of the virus over the previous 24 hours.

“We want to reopen, but we want to do it without infecting more people or infecting the hospital system,” Cuomo said.

“Government is not about spouting philosophical or political opinions, government is about delivering services.”

He added, “Separate the emotion from the logic.”

He said he won’t be swayed by protesters, adding that the CDC set reopening guidelines for states.

He also told an episode of Axios on HBO that he regrets believing that China had the virus under control.

“I wish someone stood up and blew the bugle and, if no one was going to blow the bugle, I’d feel much better if I was a bugle blower last December and January.”

He added, “I’d feel better sitting here today and saying, ‘I blew the bugle about Wuhan province in January.’"

"I can’t say that.”


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Yes, indeed, sad and incredibly stupid, which is a real commentary on these times we now find ourselves in, and that thought takes us back to 2 March 2020, 54 days AFTER the CDC issued a public health alert about COVID to state and local health officers, state and local epidemiologists, state and local laboratory directors, public information officers, HAN coordinators, and clinician organizations, which would have included Democratic Socialist governor of New York Andy Cuomo’s worthless health commissioner, Howie Zucker, and an article entitled “Rensselaer County Officials Working with State and Federal Officials on Coronavirus Issue,” where we were enlightened as to just how pathetically stupid the response in New York state, the epicenter of COVID in the world, really was, and how negligent and derelict Andy Cuomo and his lackey Howie Zucker really were with respect to COVID, as follows:

With confirmed cases of coronavirus in the nation and the state, Rensselaer County health officials took part in calls with the Centers for Disease Control and the New York State Department of Health regarding the issue.

At this time, there are no confirmed cases of coronavirus in the county.

Federal and state health officials have termed the spread of the illness nationally and in the state as “isolated” cases.

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That is on March 2, 2020, 54 days or nearly two months AFTER the CDC issued a public health alert about COVID to state and local health officers, state and local epidemiologists, state and local laboratory directors, public information officers, HAN coordinators, and clinician organizations, which would have included Democratic Socialist governor of New York Andy Cuomo’s worthless health commissioner, Howie Zucker, that we were being told by Federal and state health officials, presumably this Fauci and the airhead Dr. Birx along with the worthless Howie Zucker, that the spread of COVID nationally and in the state were “isolated” cases, and how pathetically stupid and incompetent that makes these so-called “experts” sound.

Getting back to that article which really captures the incompetence and outright stupidity that is driving this nation’s response to COVID, we have:

“We want residents to know that our team at the Health Department is monitoring this situation closely and working with state and federal officials to share information and get updates.”

“However, there is no need for undue concern or worry,” said County Executive Steve McLaughlin.

“We have been informed that New York State remains at a low risk for coronavirus.”

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And now New York state is the epicenter of the COVID crisis, and Rensselaer County is not only swimming in COVID cases, but now has older people dying alone in their homes, which is quite understandable from the perspective of an older person, because who in their right mind wants to spend their last days on earth as a science experiment in one of Andy Cuomo’s COVID hospitals, and older people in nursing homes are dying as well, as COVID continues to spread, because federal and state health officials simply blew off COVID as something to not have to worry about.

STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES!

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"With Legislature idle, Cuomo changed 262 laws in 55 days - Cuomo invokes executive powers during pandemic to changes to hundreds of laws and regulations"

Brendan J. Lyons, Albany, New York Times Union

May 2, 2020|Updated: May 2, 2020 6 p.m.

ALBANY — In the two months since Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo declared a state of emergency on March 7, he has invoked the powers of his office to issue more than 25 executive orders in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

The expansive orders have made hundreds of temporary but sweeping changes to state laws, including shutting down schools and businesses, as well as altering state regulations that govern public health, hospitals, nursing homes, elections, open meetings, court proceedings, purchasing procedures and child care.


Some of the decisions have also raised constitutional questions, including Cuomo's March 20 order that directed New Yorkers to engage in mandatory "social distancing."

It's unclear if that measure or others like it — which have been widely followed — could be legally enforced.

A statute passed in 1979 empowered the governor to “temporarily suspend any statute, local law, ordinance, or orders, rules or regulations, or parts thereof” for a period of 30 days.

But as the coronavirus pandemic took hold, the Legislature in early March gave Cuomo the boundless ability to "issue any directive … necessary to cope with the disaster."

The revision did not attach an enforcement mechanism, including any punishment for those who violate such orders.


Before the pandemic struck, Cuomo had not issued an executive order since February 2019, when he used the power of his office to rename Albany's State University of New York Plaza in honor of his fellow Democrat, H. Carl McCall, a former state senator and comptroller.

But the orders signed by Cuomo in the shadow of a pandemic that engulfed New York City have made monumental changes, ranging from allowing non-public opening of bids — even as the state has expended more than $2.8 billion to battle the pandemic — to waiving background checks for daycare workers.

Over the past two weeks, the pandemic has begun subsiding in New York as the numbers of new infections, deaths and hospitalizations from COVID-19 decline.

Yet the governor has given no indication that he will suspend his emergency declaration, even as his extraordinary use of executive orders has stoked some unrest in the state Legislature, where most lawmakers have been left on the sidelines as Cuomo has held the national spotlight for his handling of the crisis.

"We know it was a difficult decision, but the Legislature rose to the challenge and absolutely did the right thing by granting this executive power and they should be commended," said Richard Azzopardi, a senior advisor to Cuomo.


"With the Capitol shut down, members dealing with the concerns of their constituents and travel from across the state not advised, there would have been virtually no way we would have been able to address this pandemic as we had."

Cuomo's fervid use of executive authority

Last week, frustration bubbled over in Saratoga County after Cuomo expressed doubt that entertainment venues such as the Saratoga Race Course would be able to open this summer.

He had said the same thing earlier in the week about the state fair in Syracuse and large arenas and stadiums.

Assemblywoman Carrier Woerner, a Democrat from Round Lake, pounced on Cuomo's remarks and said it was premature for the governor to pontificate about shutting down an historic race course that is not scheduled to open for almost three months and is central to the fiscal health of the region's tourism industry.

"It’s one thing to be in the midst of an immediate crisis. ... In the heat of that moment, I think it was appropriate to concentrate decision-making with a single individual," Woerner said.

"But by all measure we are past that moment of crisis and we’re turning to some form of normalcy."

"It is time, in my opinion, to go back to the normal policy-making process ... it’s a collaborative process."

"We can vote on it, but he gets to veto it."

"Those are the guardrails."

But the concern about Cuomo's use of executive powers during the crisis has not rankled everyone in the Legislature.

Deputy Senate Majority Leader Michael Gianaris, a Queens Democrat whose communities have been ravaged by the coronavirus, said he does not believe the governor's executive orders have strayed from what was necessary.


The lawmaker — who has skirmished with the governor over issues such as the scuttled Amazon headquarters proposed for Long Island City — said that Cuomo's team has been "better than usual about consulting and reaching out."

"I've not hesitated to butt heads in the past, and I'm very sensitive to the perils of the current situation, but I don't believe the line has been crossed yet," Gianaris said.

The issues that have raised concerns for Gianaris, and where the Legislature needs to step in, include "the lack of immediate attention to the economic catastrophe that's related to this pandemic," he said.

"We haven't done anything to provide real rent relief."

"The process for processing unemployment checks has been substandard by any measure."

"In the meantime, people are suffering."

Gianaris noted that the Legislature could take steps to undo any executive orders that members believe are not appropriate.

Assembly Minority Leader William Barclay said that it's critical for state legislators and the governor to continue putting politics aside and get through the pandemic, but "there's going to have to be some post-mortem."

His concerns include examining the state's initial response and the startling rate of infection and death in many nursing homes.

"Let’s get through this crisis — and I don’t want to be pointing fingers," Barclay said.

The first legislative tensions with Cuomo came in early March, days before the governor declared a state of emergency, when some lawmakers pushed for a detailed reporting system in response to the governor's call for $40 million emergency appropriation to deal with the crisis.

Their request, which was rebuffed, would have required at least monthly reporting of how the funds were being used.

Instead, the governor emerged from the deal with expanded emergency powers and the ability to move state resources and funds almost at will.


"We want to work in a partnership with anybody doing this," Barclay said, "but we also don’t think it should just be unilateral control by the executive branch, and I do think that the legislature has a role to play."

The assemblyman pointed out that Oswego County, which is part of his district, has eight active coronavirus cases.

He said Cuomo needs to understand that rural upstate counties should not be treated the same as harder-hit metro areas and the governor's task force needs to consult locals more.

"I’m worried that voice is lost right now," Barclay said.

Last week, when Cuomo announced he had appointed 116 people to his sprawling New York Forward Reopening Advisory Board, it did not include a single state legislator.

Gianaris, while not commenting directly on the governor's selections to that critical panel, noted that lawmakers "are the ones who are on the ground in our communities ... dealing with food pantry lines and and the perils of the stay-at-home order."

"We’re seeing and feeling that on a daily basis."

While the New York City metropolitan region quickly emerged as the hardest-hit area in the nation — including by far the highest number of fatalities attributed to COVID-19 — Cuomo has repeatedly touted his administration's actions, contending New York acted faster than any other state, and has brushed aside criticism that his decision to shut down businesses and schools came days after it should have been done.

Barclay said the timing of those critical decisions in March need to be closely scrutinized, if nothing else to make sure New York is better prepared for any future pandemic.


"I think it’s a very atypical situation, and we all are flying blind," he said.

"It certainly needs to be investigated."

"Just maybe not right now."

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