Red States have been following Trumps lead in downplaying the risk and implementing Social Distancing. After all, the virus was a Blue State problem.
They were wrong
Ironically New York, New Jersey and Connecticut were hit early and hit hard. Without leadership from Trump they had to act on their own. Andrew Cuomo was the first to impost quarantine rules, limit the size of gatherings and imposing a lockdown.
As they say, results speak for themselves. New York flattened and then decreased the coronavirus case load. While states following Trumps cheerleading are experiencing exponential growth and spread.
New York’s health commissioner on Monday defended a directive that requires nursing homes to readmit residents who’ve tested positive for the coronavirus — as Gov. Andrew Cuomo re…
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ignorant one didn't even know his policy on Nursing homes........he performed a purge on them............and now as normal the leftist here shift the blame to others...........for their own idiocy in policy.......and in this case HE DIDN'T KNOW HIS OWN POLICY.
Another bullshit set of lies from right wingers looking to blame others for Trump's failures.
Cuomo followed the guidance regarding nursing homes from the Trump White House. Nursing Home patients require specialized care which hospitals are ill equiped to provide, especially when the hospitals are overwhelmed and short of staff. That's WHY these people are in nursing homes - because of the extreme level of care required.
When hospitalized, nursing home patients tend not to do well, and often get sicker than they would if left in their homes for routine care. What state health officials failed to realize was how ill equipped the nursing homes were in terms of PPE's, staffing and training for dealing with an infectious outbreak.
This went on all over North America is not restricted to New York, or even to Democratic States.
But this is how conseravatives work - **** things up and then blame others for the damage done.