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Thursday, May 21, 2020
Monday, May 11, 2020
Instead Of Blaming Trump, Cuomo Should Look At Himself First
Gov. Cuomo Threatened To Sue States for Quarantining New Yorkers, But Turns Out New Yorkers Were Ones Spreading the Virus
The left never tires of blaming President Donald Trump for coronavirus deaths. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, meanwhile, is a media darling.
He’s not the president, nor is he in the running to be the next resident of the White House — although there are plenty of people who wish it were him instead of Joe Biden representing the Democratic Party this November.
Perhaps if that had happened, they’d start looking more seriously at Cuomo’s woeful mismanagement of the state with, by far, the most COVID-19 cases in America.
And it isn’t just that Cuomo’s state has the most coronavirus cases and deaths. Or that it has the most deaths in nursing homes, generally acknowledged to house the most vulnerable populations of individuals. Or that he forced nursing homes to accept patients recovering from COVID-19 from hospitals, exacerbating (and, in fact, perhaps even creating) the problem.
It’s that, according to a Thursday New York Times article, Cuomo’s problem wasn’t just limited to his state. New Yorkers were the “the primary source of infections around the United States,” The Times reported, a process that Cuomo helped facilitate by threatening to sue anyone that quarantined visitors from the Empire state.
A study of the virus’ signature mutations found that there were outbreaks caused by New Yorkers reaching from coast to coast, including in Arizona, Louisiana and Texas.
“We now have enough data to feel pretty confident that New York was the primary gateway for the rest of the country,” said Nathan Grubaugh, an epidemiologist at the Yale School of Public Health.
Even in Washington state, the location of the first outbreak of the coronavirus in the United States, 42 percent of tested cases were traced to New York, according to The Times.
In California, 50 percent of the cases tested were associated with the New York outbreak, compared with 32 percent from Washington, The Times reported. Seventy percent of the tested cases in Texas came from New York. In Arizona, it was 84 percent. In Ohio, 88 percent and in Iowa, 100 percent. Also, 100 percent of tested cases in Louisiana, another major hot spot for the virus, were traced to New York.
At this point, it’s probably helpful to remember what happened when the governors of other states wanted visitors from New York to quarantine if they traveled there:
Cuomo threatened to sue governors from other states for asking travelers from New York to quarantine for 14 days, and his health commissioner advised New Yorkers to ignore those requests.
Now it looks like New York started outbreaks around the country. twitter.com/JerryDunleavy/…
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When Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo signed an executive order on March 27 to try and stop the spread of the coronavirus in her state, she specified that New Yorkers who traveled to the Ocean State would have to quarantine for 14 days — and said she would send law enforcement door-to-door to make sure they complied, according to ABC News.
To enforce the order, she would have had state troopers at the border flagging down cars with New York plates and getting their contact information. If they planned to stay, they were ordered into quarantine.
“This is an emergency,” Raimondo said, according to ABC. “That’s a law. That’s an order. It comes with penalties. It’s not a suggestion.”
As for the constitutionality of it? That seems like an awfully quaint thing to consider now, considering some of the measures states are willing to take in the name of not spreading the coronavirus.
“What is constitutional in one scenario is different than in another. This is pinpointed, this is targeted, this is a state of emergency, this is limited in time, and it’s going to be enforced in a respectful way,” Raimondo said. “And it’s a public health necessity.”
Cuomo then threatened to sue Rhode island. Raimondo backed off.
“We had a conversation. I don’t think the order was called for, I don’t think it was legal, I don’t think it was neighborly,” Cuomo said.
It may not have been neighborly, but it might have been smart.
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Raimondo eventually ordered a quarantine of “any person coming to Rhode Island by any mode of transportation after visiting another state for a non-work-related purpose.” A less targeted response is a less effective one, however.
This is how Cuomo stopped states from quarantining people from New York at a time it would have made a difference. Now, New York still has the most cases in the country by a wide margin; the same with deaths. As of Sunday morning, according to Johns Hopkins University data, there were 26,612 coronavirus deaths in New York, more than two-and-a-half times more than New Jersey, the next highest state.
Not only that, we now know that New Yorkers are responsible for the vast majority of coronavirus cases in the United States.
Cuomo’s team has done what it does best on the issue: Blame Trump.
The governor’s communications director, Dani Lever, said there was an “enormous failure by the federal government to leave New York and the East Coast exposed to flights from Europe, while at the same time instilling a false sense of security by telling the State of New York that we had no COVID cases throughout the entire month of February.”
And yet, that’s what the media narrative will continue to be. Cuomo’s mistakes will be airbrushed — even as his state remains the tragic outlier in America’s COVID-19 crisis. By threatening to sue other states that would have forced New Yorkers to quarantine, he helped spread the virus, too.
He has no one to blame for that but himself.
Monday, March 30, 2020
Americans Need The Truth Not Made Up Lies
CBS Used Fake COVID Video: 'NY Hospital' Footage Was From Italy's Hardest-Hit City
There’s little doubt that many in the establishment media are trying to turn the coronavirus pandemic into their own windfall against President Donald Trump, and it’s becoming apparent some are resorted to using fake news to do it.
Case in point: a CBS News broadcast Wednesday about the shortfall of ventilators in the state of New York.
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Among the cacophony of errors and lies of omission is one crowning jewel of potential prevarication: Footage of coronavirus patients used in the story to whip up hysteria about the situation in New York is actually from Italy.
Before we get to the main payoff, let’s start at the very beginning.
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The report from CBS correspondent David Begnaud opens with him talking about how New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the federal government isn’t doing enough in the face of the coronavirus emergency, apparently walking back his previous praise.
In a little rhyme that makes him sound like an infomercial charlatan, Begnaud said the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s sending only 400 ventilators to the state “isn’t matching the urgency of the emergency.”
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The story went on to chronicle how New York City is especially hard-hit. “Crowded subway cars may have accelerated the spread,” Begnaud said over footage of a packed subway car, where a rider was wearing a blue medical mask (more on that later).
Next, Begnaud voiced over footage of a hospital room full of patients hooked up to ventilators. They lay in hospital beds clustered side by side as medical personnel in serious protective gear attended to them, driving home the dire straits in which New York City finds itself.
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There’s only one problem: The footage is not from New York City.
In fact, it isn’t even from the United States; it’s from Bergamo, the Italian city hardest-hit by COVID-19. The footage can be seen here in a Sky News report March 22 about a critical shortage of ventilators in northern Italy.
Sure, it’s possible a producer used the wrong footage when putting the piece together, but given the alarmist tone of the story and its apparent pleading of the Democratic governor’s case, one has to wonder where “mistake” ends and “fake news” begins.
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But wait, there’s more (we’ll stick in that infomercial trope as a nod to Begnaud).
After the Italian hospital footage ended, the clip switched to a visibly angry Cuomo, who shouted, “What am I going to do with 400 ventilators when I need 30,000? You pick the 26,000 people who are going to die because you only sent 400 ventilators.”
You didn’t read that wrong; Cuomo was just a little off in his calculations, as only 400 ventilators would mean that 29,600 patients would be left without one — assuming, of course, that his premise was even correct.
Apparently, CBS News is just as lousy at math as MSNBC and The New York Times, as Begnaud did nothing to correct the governor’s numbers. With such questionable knowledge of both geography and mathematics, the viewer is left to wonder what other facts the network is sloppy about verifying.
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Besides the lies or errors, the most troubling thing about this piece was the tone.
There is no doubt the United States and New York in particular are in the grips of a crisis. COVID-19, as of Monday, had sickened 60,679 and killed 1,040 in the state, of which 790 deaths were in New York City alone, according to Johns Hopkins.
Because of the seriousness of the situation, it is important that the media be truthful in their reporting and not incite panic. This message was one that the president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., thought every American needed to hear.
On Friday, he tweeted a clip from Dr. Deborah Birx of the White House coronavirus task force urging truthful coverage.
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“Every American needs to know this,” Trump wrote. “You won’t hear it on CNN. They are only playing bad news.”
Every American needs to know this. You won’t hear it on CNN. They are only playing bad news. twitter.com/cortessteve/st…
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Far from it, pieces like this one from CBS News do everything to cast a shadow over the administration and its handling of coronavirus, including claiming that the president simply isn’t doing enough for the states.
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The Western Journal has reached out to CBS News for comment but has not yet received a response.
The Daily Caller’s Shelby Talcott, however, tweeted that the network claimed it was an “editing error.”
NEW:CBS News tells me the misleading video showing an Italian hospital during a segment on NY coronavirus crisis was "an editing mistake." No word yet on issuing an on-air correction.
"It was an editing mistake. We took immediate steps to remove it from all platforms and shows."
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Let’s return to the part about the crowded New York subways. So far, the Trump administration has done what it can to help at the federal level but still requires local municipalities to do what they can and should do.
In New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio was slow to respond to coronavirus outbreak, partially discontinuing subway service only on Tuesday following already reduced ridership, The New York Times reported. While Cuomo railed about a shortage of ventilators, the mayor did nothing to stop the spread of the disease at one of its sources.
Meanwhile, another Democratic mayor, LaToya Cantrell of New Orleans, famously blamed Trump for her own decision not to cancel the city’s Mardi Gras celebration despite mounting concerns. The city is now facing an increasingly serious outbreak situation, according to Begnaud’s piece.
The worst part of this is that in the midst of an actual emergency, Trump’s opponents in the media and Democratic Party are wasting time with more opportunistic swipes at destroying him, even as if it means misleading footage and questionable facts.
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If the United States is at war with a virus, then what the ancient playwright Aeschylus wrote applies to CBS News’ coverage: “In war, truth is the first casualty.”
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