- Andrew Cuomo’s placement of infected COVID-19-positive patients in nursing homes caused thousands of nosocomial infections and deaths among the most vulnerable populations. Deliberate inflation of death statistics to scapegoat Trump?
The actions makes a certain sort of shitfuckidiotbrain sense if you don't think about object-level reality and think about everything in terms of socio-political intrigue. The state pays for a fuckload of nursing home expenses, and they don't want the nursing homes to play games about taking only the most "profitable" patients and foisting others on other nursing homes. So the nursing homes get a flat rate per patient and profit on average, the state gets to shove every one of the poor fuckers
somewhere, and "maybe we shouldn't spread infectious diseases in nursing homes" is just sort of
lost in the compromise that happens between the various moneyed groups involved. Like, actual nursing home patients aren't thought of
at all in this calculus. It's purely about the government using a "no rejecting patients" mandate to make their job of shuttling invalids into care facilities easier and cheaper.
The kind of people who actually think about ground-level consequences end up being engineers and say too much autistic shit
well before they manage any sort of political success. It's hopeless. The best we can hope for is trying to vote in the right kind of lizard person, because if we don't, then the
wrong kind of lizard person will hold office instead. And high-level politicians are
all lizard people, with pretty much zero exceptions. If they didn't have a well-tuned ability to read the political currents in society and figure out how to take advantage of it, they wouldn't have been able to rise to their position. About the best you can hope for is the ability to make some kind of plan other than reading what polls well and blindly trying to coalition-build on that.
Anyhow, my point is that Cuomo didn't deliberately infect nursing homes with COVID-19 because, as a high-level politician, he's
incapable of planning anything whatsoever. When you hear about a politician doing something, what you should be imagining is someone seeing a plan put in front of them, consulting their sense of how "I am doing this plan" polls among the constituency, and then making a decision
entirely based on that sense.
And uhh, if you can't tell that I'm absolutely mad as fuck about the fuckwits handling everything, yes, I am extremely mad. Hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths. And these goddamn fucks are playing political games out of it, because of course they would, they're politicians.