2/ Yes, this has been a major challenge for every leader, but New York's leaders do not have a success story to tell. It's been about missteps and late actions. From April: "How Delays and Unheeded Warnings Hindered New York's Virus Fight"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/nyregion/new-york-coronavirus-response-delays.html …
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3/ From April: "Seattle’s Leaders Let Scientists Take the Lead. New York’s Did Not"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/04/seattles-leaders-let-scientists-take-the-lead-new-yorks-did-not …
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4/ There have been institutional failures of government from the White House on down. Empirically New York is one of the biggest failures in the U.S. From May:https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/20/us/coronavirus-distancing-deaths.html …
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5/ Then there's the whole nursing home disaster.https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2020/05/28/lead-drew-griffin-dnt-live-jake-tapper.cnn …
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6/ There are many New York citizens put off by the crowing and the poster sales. It's great that the number have gone down, and I hope to God they stay there. But New York's leaders were late and made many mistakes; it's been an absolute tragedy.
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(This is the poster sales thing I'm referring to:)https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/behold-governor-cuomos-covid-19-mountain-poster.html …
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NY Mag: "while the poster does include Cuomo’s three daughters, criticism of the president, and multiple quirky asides, it does not include references to the now more 32,000 New Yorkers who lost their lives to the virus,...
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NY Mag: "...Cuomo’s failures to protect nursing-home residents in the state, his petty and counterproductive rivalry with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, or his initial and costly delay trusting public-health experts."
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Because Dems are grooming cuomo to run in 2024
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I think it's also buyer's remorse with Creepy Joe *this* time. A few dream of switching to Fredo even at such a late date, because Biden's in such an obvious cognitive decline.
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