New details into the special access to COVID-19 testing provided to relatives of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) and other well-connected New Yorkers reveal that at least 100 people were prioritized during the first month of pandemic response efforts at an operations hub in New Rochelle, NY.
Anyone still want to defend this?
I suspect this was the case in a lot of Red states too
Do you think for one minute Ron DeSantis in Florida didn’t give priority to friends and relatives?
He was selling vaccines for campaign donations FFS
Hubris, thy name is Cuomo …
The mere fact of comparing Cuomo to DeSantis proves the fucking point.
Is there anyone in this country gullible enough to believe favoritism is confined to one governor who is a democrat?
I don’t defend it, but I’m willing to bet folks got to jump the queue based on connections everywhere.
As a New York State employee I can defend the way that testing was prioritized for agency heads like the Port Authority and the MTA. They’re out in public handling this crisis and can’t afford to wait for a test. The other folks who were apparently treated like royalty should have sucked it up and gone to their local clinic like the rest of us.
Whatever…the upper management of my hospital got their vaccines before the nurses or residents actually working with our (many) COVID patients. One assumes it was the same with the tests.
I could forgive Cuomo if he hadn’t killed 550,000 people, caged little kids, ruined relations with our allies, and set back the fight for common sense climate change action by a generation.
likely the same for the upper management of every large hospital. If my employers are any example, those same folks likely also got their vaccines first.
Pretty sure the answer is yes.
Nope-ity-nope.
See @sickneffintired’s post above.
Andrew Cuomo = Blue Trump
I may be misremembering, but here in KS there was an instance of a hospital’s board members getting vaccinated early, the argument being that they might possibly come into contact with doctors and nurses treating COVID patients. Which, you know, doesn’t seem all that likely to me.
Sounds reasonable. To the extent that someone’s job increases their exposure, the employer (in this case the state) should take some responsibility.
And to the extent that tax-payers were footing the bill, one would have thought the testing program could have been a matter of public record.
Well OK, I still don’t care
I don’t see any Republicans resigning
That’s some sick whataboutism right there. You should think about becoming a Republican.
This has all the earmarks of an Orchestrated smear. Looking under rocks for scandals
When Republicans are held to the same scrutiny there might be an argument