By Selwyn Duke

“Cuomo has blood on his hands,” said the Queens nursing home executive. “He really does.”

There were many unknowns and disagreements early on in the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, involving matters ranging from the disease’s contagiousness to its actual mortality rate to whether it was seasonal. But one thing everyone knew, from the beginning, was that it was highly dangerous to the elderly.

Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York certainly knew. In mid-March already, he issued the executive order “Matilda’s Law,” which placed great restrictions on people over 70 and those visiting them (e.g., you should be screened for temperature when seeing an elderly relative) and threatened individual fines up to $5,000 to enforce compliance. So Cuomo was serious.

He wanted you to know it, too. “My mother is not expendable. Your mother is not expendable,” he scolded March 24, rebuking those warning that lockdowns would kill more than they’d save. Given this, you’d think the last thing anyone would do — and the last thing Cuomo in particular would do — is put Wuhan virus-infected patients in nursing homes. So what did Cuomo do?

The very next day he issued an order (below) forcing nursing homes to accept Wuhan virus-infected patients.

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