posted by gut
I guess this is a rhetorical question, but is anyone surprised that Cuomo is being praised for how he's handled the pandemic and being touted as a Presidential candidate....while Trump is bumbling incompetent and has cost lives? A few weeks ago, Cuomo was deflecting on NY was the "ahead of the other states....they'll be dealing with what we are". Ummmm, no. OH, for example, was doing everything NY has done days before NY did it. And CA and WA had people dying from it before NY did, and it never got anything like NY in either of those places.
Have these people actually looked at the numbers in the NYC area?
If you look on a per capita basis for cases and deaths, the US is pretty much right in the middle of the EU and other OECD countries. And that's WITH New York in the numbers.
I actually have had roughly this same thought about Cuomo. What did NY do first that makes Cuomo such a hero? Base on the per capita numbers even, NYS has fucked this up mostly. You can hide behind it being a hub, sure, but like you said, California and Washington state had fatal cases at least as early as New York.
On a state-by-state and per capita basis, as of April 9, New York state has the worst death rate so far, by far.
Why is this guy being lauded like he is? Because he says things that sound nice? That's what it seems like.