That argument sounds a lot like Joe Biden’s comments on the China travel ban. Biden complained that the restrictions on travel from China were useless “hysteria” and “xenophobia” when Trump announced them. A few weeks later Biden and his allies complained that Trump should have acted sooner.
If Trump had quarantined the New York area over Cuomo’s strenuous objections, Democrats would have probably responded with another impeachment trial for abuse of power, endless court challenges, and possibly violent protests and/or civil disobedience. The results could easily have been more distractions and more deaths than what happened.
It stated that the big spike in infections came from staff workers, and there was good evidence for that, to be sure…and this spike came before hospitalized people were being sent back to nursing homes. So far so good.
What the report DIDN’T do was definitively show there wasn’t a second spike that happened after the patients started coming back. They didn’t even try to investigate to see if there was a second spike or not.
The report simply said “Look at this first spike and ignore the fact that we didn’t even look to see if the patients themselves caused a second spike!”
Hard to know since there was little to no contact testing at the time. I believe a lot of spread was on the subway and buses. It took NYC some time to figure out how to disinfect them. And then they just did it overnight. I saw some pictures of subway cars packed with hardly no one wearing masks. There were so many folks that were deemed essential workers. And from what I heard, NYC made the mistake of not staggering work hours to cut down on the numbers taking public transportation per hour.
It is even worse than that; Zucker appears to be the official who made the decision to force nursing homes to accept coronavirus patients. Cuomo appeared to be ignorant of the decision back in April and directed the question to Zucker:
The idea that Zucker is heading the investigation of Zucker’s own decision is either incredibly stupid or a blatant coverup.
Yes, and the New York policy that required nursing homes to admit infected patients was in apparent violation of federal guidelines.
Here is an earlier thread that documents the nursing home issue:
Of course if Trump had tried to force New York to follow the federal guidelines, Democrats would have called it abuse of power and pushed another impeachment. That is what they call chutzpah.
NY was the epicenter for the spread of the COVID virus throughout the entire US. Due to the level of contagiousness, I don’t think there’s anything he logically could have done to stop it but…he could have slowed the spread. Just as he now is stopping those entering the state without quarantining…he could have done the same for those leaving.
"“Look, the best thing he did for New York City was leave. Good riddance, let him go to Florida, be careful not to get COVID,” Cuomo later added. “Also, the main situation that New York City had to deal with, that I had to deal with as Governor, was the COVID pandemic. Remember, COVID ambushed New York due to Trump’s negligence. It was his negligence that allowed the virus to ambush New York, and that’s not rhetorical.”
“He is the cause of COVID in New York,” Cuomo continued. “It is his negligence that brought it here and then his arrogance where he won’t provide state and local funding to help states and cities to recover from the pandemic that his negligence caused.”