OK, here's where Cuomo and I part company...

[TreasonousBastard]

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/31/nyregion/cuomo-book-nursing-homes.html

If you get hit by the paywall, here it is in a nutshell...

We all know Cuomo wrote book bragging about his Covid exploits. But, while he was negotiating a $4 million advance, the nursing home numbers were hidden.

His close staff were helping with the book, and perhaps helping a bit too much.

[OnDoutside]

1. The nursing homes scandal is THE thing in all this.

[Celerity]

2. As Cuomo Sought $4 Million Book Deal, Aides Hid Damaging Death Toll

Gov. Andrew Cuomo boasted, “I am not a superhero,” in early versions of his book, drafted as his aides scrubbed a politically damaging Health Department report.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/31/nyregion/cuomo-book-nursing-homes.html

ALBANY, N.Y. — As the coronavirus subsided in New York last year, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo had begun pitching a book proposal that would center on his image as a hero of the pandemic. But by early last summer, both his book and image had hit a critical juncture. Mr. Cuomo leaned on his top aide, Melissa DeRosa, for assistance. She attended video meetings with publishers, and helped him edit early drafts of the book. But there was also another, more pressing edit underway at the same time.

An impending Health Department report threatened to disclose a far higher number of nursing home deaths related to the coronavirus than the Cuomo administration had previously made public. Ms. DeRosa and other top aides expressed concern about the higher death toll, and, after their intervention, the number — which had appeared in the second sentence of the report — was removed from the final version.

The revisions occurred as the governor was on the brink of a huge payoff: a book deal that ended with a high offer of more than $4 million, according to people with knowledge of the book’s bidding process. A New York Times examination of the development of Mr. Cuomo’s lucrative book deal revealed how it overlapped with the move by his most senior aides to reshape a report about nursing home deaths in a way that insulated the governor from criticism and burnished his image.

Mr. Cuomo also utilized the resources of his office — from his inner circle to far more junior personnel — to help with the manuscript. In late June and early July, for example, a top aide to the governor, Stephanie Benton, twice asked assistants to print portions of the draft of the book, and deliver them to Mr. Cuomo at the Executive Mansion in Albany, where he lives. One of Ms. Benton’s directives came on June 27, the same day that Ms. DeRosa convened an impromptu teleconference with several other top advisers to discuss the Health Department draft report.

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[uponit7771]

3. This is boring, I wish the M$M would stop pushing Cuomo they're going into Iraq territory.

[RandiFan1290]

4. They will focus on Cuomo

and claim that Gaetz 'isn't worth our time'

[luckone]

11. Yes as you predicted - this below

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215290939

[Scrivener7]

5. Kay. But you write a post defending Gaetz. I didn't think you were wearing a slip, but

something is showing down there.

[TreasonousBastard]

13. I was NOT defending Gaetz. I have no idea were that idea came from. I was merely...

trying to clarify the issue.

[joshcryer]

6. The nursing home thing wasn't that controversial to me.

A lot, and I mean a lot, of people leave their ailing parents to fester in homes, and many, many elderly people don't even have family to care for them. It is a no-win situation, with elders who just have no support system. It was a travesty, to be sure, but the borders should've been closed, and there should've been contact tracing.

[Scrivener7]

8. After their hospitalizations were over, they were sent home. Like everyone else.

But home was a nursing home, and the results were bad.

It's terrible, but we need to remember that this was the period where the CDC was still telling us not to wear masks, and if we just washed our hands well we would all be fine. And within 2 months, the practice was stopped.

[joshcryer]

9. The federal government should've had immediate contact tracing.

They should've went full on red alert and just threw money at the problem. Many would have got on board. We see with the current vaccination effort (3+ million a day in March) that Americans, when they are tasked to do something, will do it. But Trump's shitheadedness just never let us shine. We could've implemented the best contact tracing in the world, and we never even would've had to wear masks (Australia used a contact tracing approach and went maskless for most of this pandemic).

[Scrivener7]

10. Yes, definitely. And Obama left a plan and roadmap to do all that. Unfortunately....

[Nixie]

12. Agreed, and Cuomo was giving press conferences every day,

so not hiding anything. That was just a developing situation of many that was hard to predict in the very early stages of the pandemic.

[luckone]

7. It's like some have a reminder set . Time to put out a Cuomo story