Cuomo's co-conspirators are shocked, shocked at what he's done

There were alternatives to Cuomo’s lethal policies. But there were also co-conspirators to Cuomo’s madness. They include many of those same Democratic legislators now calling for the governor’s scalp.

Like Captain Renault, they are shocked, shocked to learn that Cuomo’s COVID rulings had such horrific consequences.

If only these same legislators hadn’t actually voted to enable these policies.

Last month — a lifetime ago for the scandal-enmeshed Luv Guv — news broke of a not-so-private conference call in which Cuomo’s top aide, Melissa DeRosa, admitted to select Democratic lawmakers that his administration had fudged the mortality numbers on nursing-home deaths caused by the governor’s executive order of March 2020. This order barred the facilities, as well as group homes for the disabled, from denying admission to coronavirus-infected patients. This, while the 1,000-bed hospital ship, the USNS Comfort, sat nearly empty in New York Harbor. (The sanitary expert/governor declared that the ship was “too hard to disinfect.”). Ditto for NYC’s converted Javits Center, with its 1,000 beds: It too was largely devoid of the COVID-stricken.