Just as he did in the book he would later publish, Cuomo has continued to try to place the blame absolutely anywhere but on his own shoulders. He claims that an aide wrote the original memo mandating that COVID patients had to be admitted to nursing homes. He also placed the blame on the Trump administration for their original guidance, though none of the federal guidelines delivered mandates. They only offered suggestions based on the little we knew about the virus in 2020. By contrast, Cuomo was issuing orders with stiff penalties threatened for those who did not comply.

Cuomo then goes on to attempt to use the, "if I only knew then what I know now" argument, but it falls rather flat. He sagely nods about his deadly, failed policies and says, "We all know what happened next." And that's true, Governor. We do know. People died in the droves. But this was more than a simple case of not understanding the transmission factors with this virus (which were honestly barely different than transmission protocols for the common flu.) This was a case of selective transmission. You locked down the healthy offspring of people in the nursing homes, deeming it too dangerous to allow them into the facilities. They were forced to watch from afar as their elderly family members died. But other, contagious patients were regularly wheeled in to stay in the same rooms with them.

To a certain extent, I can be at least slightly sympathetic with Cuomo's complaint that the virus was brand new and he was just going along with published advice from the federal level. Much was unknown at that time. And our so-called experts serving in the Sainted Dr. Fauci's army got a lot of things very, very wrong. But it was only later that we learned that they weren't just wrong in some of their conclusions. They were making things up out of whole cloth. So-called "social distancing" was something they dreamed up over coffee because they thought it sounded good. Facemasks, particularly the useless cloth ones that so many people were wearing, did nothing at all. Other aspects of it were far worse. There were results from early clinical testing available showing that the new mRNA vaccines prevented neither the contraction nor transmission of the virus, but those vaccines were made mandatory anyway.

You can take that for all you feel it's worth. Not all of this was Andrew Cuomo's responsibility and there were many bad or at least incompetent actors involved in that horror show. But at the end of the day, Andrew Cuomo asked for the job of being Governor and the people granted his request. There's an old saying in the Navy that informs us that the Captain is responsible if the ship goes down, even if he's asleep in his cabin when they hit the iceberg. Andrew Cuomo was the captain in New York. It's long past time to do the right thing and own that responsibility.