Even if every claim in this NYT editorial regarding Federal dereliction and private sector “corruption” as true, the editorial still is the ultimate in erasure: literally not a word about many governors’ policy of returning COVID patients to nursing homes.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/05/opinion/sunday/coronavirus-nursing-homes-deaths.html?referringSource=articleShare …
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I expect this ignoring of all relevant evidence that doesn’t fit the narrative from Krugman, but I’d expect better from the NYT editorial board...who am I kidding, this is exactly what I’d have expected from them. (Even before the Tom Cotton-driven regime change.)
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But it’s not just the editorialists. Remember that puff piece in the NYT Mag on Gretchen Whitmer? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/magazine/gretchen-whitmer-coronavirus-michigan.html … Not a word about her policy of sending COVID patients back to nursing homes.
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In a piece devoted to her decisiveness and devotion to the evidence, not a word about her sticking with an empirically disastrous decision longer than any other governor.
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Just to wrap up: blue state governors & mayors often take unfair criticism for the elevated COVID death tolls in their states. Even - and it pains me to type this - de Blasio.
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Much of the death toll was due to factors out of their control and many of this choices were made in absence of better ones.
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But here, we have pretty close to THE ONE THING that was within their control and there were better alternative choices available. And in a long editorial about nursing home’s death toll, that is THE ONE THING the NYT doesn’t mention. Not even in a “to be sure” aside.
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That’s a pretty categorical miss. Tom Cotton’s work is not complete.
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