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In two separate appearances on cable news, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo made the surprise claim that an “incompetent government kills people.”
What was surprising was that Cuomo wasn’t referring to his own bungled response to the pandemic. He was specifically referring to Donald Trump and the federal government’s response.
Cuomo’s fatal order that COVID-positive patients were to be returned to nursing homes resulted in more than 6,600 deaths before he finally changed the policy two months later.
I guess that sort of slipped his mind.
Cuomo first made the claim in a friendly interview with MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace on Tuesday, insisting that former President Donald Trump and an incompetent federal response was to blame. Critics quickly noticed and asked whether Cuomo’s decision to allow COVID-positive patients into nursing homes could have also been a factor.