Early last month, disgraced former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, became a candidate in the Democrat mayoral primary in New York City, which will be held on June 25 of this year.
But a somber memorial service in Brooklyn in late March reminded city voters of the 15,000 residents of New York state who died because of Cuomo’s abominable directive on March 25, 2020, mandating nursing homes admit COVID-19-positive patients.
Relatives of the elderly victims and eight Democrat mayoral contenders attended the heart-rending commemoration, including City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, whose father died in May 2020 and who denounced Cuomo as a “so-called governor” for still refusing to “take accountability” for the largest preventable mass deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Scott Stringer, the former city comptroller whose mother died in a Bronx hospital in April 2020, branded Cuomo a “coward” and predicted he would not be elected mayor.
However, the Democrat mayoral contenders, city voters, and local journalists have unconscionably forgotten that between March 22 and May 9, 2020, one day before Gov. Cuomo finally rescinded the atrocious nursing-home COVID-19 diktat, New York had suffered a humongous 27,000 deaths: 18,000 in New York City and 9,000 in the rest of the state.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the largest monthly exponential rise of COVID-19 deaths — at more than 800% — occurred in 2020 between the 7,000 in March and the 66,000 in April.
And 22,000 of the April deaths, or a mindboggling 33%, occurred in Gov. Andrew “Angel of Death” Cuomo’s New York.
Another 15,000 of that month’s fatalities, or a heinous 23%, were in adjacent states: New Jersey, 9,000; Connecticut, 2,500; and Pennsylvania, 3,500.
In mid-March 2020, the autocratic Democrat governors of the four states — Cuomo, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont, and Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf — began coordinating their COVID-19 responses.
Significantly, between late March and mid-May 2020, nursing home pandemic deaths numbered 4,800 in New Jersey, 3,000 in Pennsylvania, and 1,600 in Connecticut.
In stark contrast, the first mass deaths in senior facilities occurred in metro Seattle, with 21 fatalities in the week ending March 7, 2020. But Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, a Democrat, moved swiftly to protect residents of these highly vulnerable communities, and his state suffered 289 total COVID-19 deaths in March, 549 in April, and 275 in May.
Consequently, Inslee’s Washington — with 38% of New York’s population — had 3,700 COVID-19 deaths in 2020, compared to Cuomo’s New York with 38,500, the largest fatality toll among the 50 states.
This abhorrent public-health catastrophe represents 10% of the nation’s 386,000 deaths in 2020, while New York had only 6% of nation’s population.
Moreover, Cuomo’s COVID-19 death toll in first eight months of 2021 was 17,600, for an 18-month, grim total of 56,100.
But in late August 2021, in his 11th year as governor, Cuomo abruptly resigned when faced with imminent impeachment by the state assembly for the sexual harassment of female employees and for undercounting COVID-19 deaths among nursing home residents.
During the past five years, I published dozens of COVID-19 articles on Newsmax, and many have identified Andrew Cuomo’s egregious pandemic failures.
The first one, “De Blasio Is Fudging NY’s Virus Numbers,” appeared on April 16, 2020, and extensively documented that former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Democrat, and Gov. Cuomo were disseminating highly unreliable COVID-19 deaths statistics.
I recommended that then-President Donald Trump immediately end the national shutdown and launch a Justice Department investigation into the accuracy of the two Democrats’ official COVID-19 fatality statistics.
And my March 11, 2021, Newsmax article, “Cuomo Impeachment Articles NY Republican Should Draft,” updated his atrocious COVID-19 death tolls and highlighted an unemployment rate in December 2020 of 8.7%, when the national average was 6.7%, ranking him 48th among 50 governors.
On April 2, U.S. District Judge Dale Ho unconditionally dismissed the very credible corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who the next day dropped out of the June Democratic primary to run as an independent in November.
In the upcoming three-way race, Republicans would have had an excellent chance, if they had fielded a stronger candidate, in the mold of former Mayor Rudy Giuliani (1994-2001).
But the leading contender, Curtis Sliwa, was crushed by Adams four years ago, 67% to 28%.
If Andrew Cuomo wins in June, and either he or Eric Adams is victorious in November, New York City and New York state will further decline morally, economically, and demographically.
Between 2014 and 2024, New York’s population, under the incompetent Democrat Govs. Cuomo and Kathy Hochul, stagnated from 19.7 to 19.9 million, or a 1% increase.
By contrast, Florida’s population, under the very competent Republican Govs. Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis, boomed from 19.8 to 23.4 million, or an 18% increase.
Between 2020 and 2024, New York City’s population dropped from 8.80 to 8.48 million, or a 320,000 decrease.
Undoubtedly, the New York Democratic Party no longer cultivates competent, sane politicians like Gov. Hugh Carey (1975-82) and Mayor Ed Koch (1978-90), the World War II veterans who helped save the city and state during the 1970s’ fiscal bankruptcy and demographic collapse.
When the decennial census numbers are released in April 2030, Florida’s population will exceed 25 million, while New York’s will still be frozen at 20 million.
Mark Schulte is a retired New York City schoolteacher and mathematician who has written extensively about science and the history of science. Read Mark Schulte’s Reports — More Here.
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