Father Andrew Cuomo. ‘Feels like I’m in church sometimes. I meant that in a good way.

Though I live in California, I listen to Cuomo nearly every day as I find his talks comforting and most of all, informative. I'll be a little sad when he stops doing this.

Chickadee2, I was just telling my husband that I think the comfort and inspiration I get from watching Governor Cuomo must be like what churchgoers feel listening to their preacher.

Words from the heart; he's a man who loves his country. We are living a nightmare. It's too long to January.

How do you listen to Cuomo, sjerin? What time and where? I'm happy with Newsom too, but in LA Country, we're still shut down pretty much.

We're not red and blue. We're red, white, and blue.

Inspirational words.

Socks, I google "Office of NY gov" and get the official page. On that is a "listen live" button that I click. He usually talks @ 8:30 West Coast time, but I have not been able to find his briefing schedule. So I leave that window open and turn the volume down so I can hear the 'waiting' music, and the time when that stops and he starts speaking. (I generally am looking at something else at that time.) Or you can go to Youtube after his briefing and search the date and "Cuomo briefing."

Thanks for posting this. He's such an inspiration; why isn't HE or someone like him leading this country.

Cuomo required nursing homes to accept Covid positive patients. He also made sure that he had his gym workout before he took that right away from his constituents.

He awful, I can't imagine that he could get elected dog catcher after this.

Raye, could you please cite your source of information? The Enquirer? Just curious how you know that Cuomo had his gym workout before he took that right away. When people make broad generalizations, I'm always interested in their source of information.

The Mayor of Oklahoma City gave a daily speech for most of April, and went down to weekly in May. Very very inspirational and calming. I will have to listen to Governor Cuomo

I am not fan of Cuomo, but I believe it was Bill DeBlasio (NYC mayor) who went to the gym.

Cuomo signed executive orders putting know positive Covid patients into occupied nursing homes.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-sent-recovering-coronavirus-patients-to-nursing-homes-it-was-a-fatal-error-11589470773

https://www.foxnews.com/media/new-yorkers-bash-cuomo-coronavirus-nursing-homes

Two reputable sources for you, Sephia_Wa

Thanks Ratherbesewing, it was DeBlasio that put on the gym stunt

Still doesn't excuse Cuomo for being the only governor that deliberately infected nursing home patients. This is one of the few times that I would say a lawsuit is the appropriate thing to do.

Cuomo has immunized nursing home execs from lawsuits over Covid. Which he should have since he ordered the Covid patients back to nursing homes.

When we already had the example of Covid spreading like wildfire in the Kirkland, WA long term facility--4 deaths there had occurred by February 29, clusters of Covid in nursing homes in S. Korea had been ID'd by March 19 yet Cuomo signed the order to return Covid positive patients to nursing homes on March 25.

https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2020/05/28/extent-of-coronavirus-carnage-in-new-york-nursing-homes-may-never-be-known

The Covid death toll in New York nursing homes and care facilities exceeds 6000 people and counting...But the state is not including in these figures adult care facility residents who were transferred to a hospital and died of the coronavirus there.

Raye, you think Fox News is reputable? Fox News is as biased as you can get. It was created to support the Republican party, and it has continued to do so even though the GOP has gone downhill so badly. Its devoted viewers think they get the truth on Fox, and insist it reports things the mainstream media deliberately leaves out. I believe the opposite is true. Fox is very careful to present Trump in the best light--and I'm sure that isn't easy.

I woke up at 4 o'clock this morning thinking about how our United States of America, which should be firmly united in this time of global crisis, has become more divided, more polarized than ever. I hear people saying the Democrats (it's always "the Democrats" or "the liberals") don't want the country to open up because they want the economy to tank so that Trump won't be reelected. That's ridiculous. Where do they hear this garbage? On what I call hate radio--Rush Limbaugh, etc.--for one source. Unless Limbaugh and Hannity are a lot stupider than I think they are, they know perfectly well that those of us who are willing to endure more lockdowns do so because we listen to the scientists--virologists and epidemiologists--who have the knowledge to advise us on this dangerous situation. But that's not what their listeners want to hear, so they give them whatever riles them up.

It's bizarre that we can't even agree on a simple thing like wearing face masks. it's a basic safety measure. Masks don't protect the wearer as much as they protect the people around them. All the experts encourage us to wear them in public. In some places the wearing of masks is mandated. And yet we the idiot in the White House refuses to wear one, giving his flock of sheep the idea that wearing a face mask is a sign of weakness. So we end up with groups armed with assault rifles protesting the practice. It just gets crazier and crazier.

Sorry, Jupidupi. I'm very tired, and so appalled at the state of things. Andrew Cuomo has been, and continues to be, a reassuring voice in a sea of insanity. Thank you for sharing.

Alisande, Cuomo's executive order to return Covid positive patients to nursing homes has been widely reported. You are going to need a great deal of ammo if you want to shoot all the messengers.

https://www.newsday.com/news/health/coronavirus/nursing-home-coronavirus-cuomo-1.44559094

State nursing home directive complicated COVID-19 tracking, care

I wasn't talking about Cuomo specifics, Cilantro.

At the time this happened, New York was desperately short of hospital beds and trying to prevent a situation like in Italy. No one yet knew that a person who had seemed to have recovered and was now symptom-free could still be infecting others. Just like at the time, the CDC didn't yet know that asymptomatic people could be spreading the virus, and that masks were necessary. This is a new virus. Our information is incomplete and constantly being updated.

Governor Cuomo, genuine leader and honest human being that he is, has admitted that it had been a mistake to send people whom they thought were cured, and who had been in those hospital beds for an additional week or more no longer showing symptoms, back to their nursing homes. (And what no one mentions is every person who was desperately ill and able to get treatment because a hospital bed was available.) As soon as it became known that returning residents to their nursing homes was a mistake, Cuomo rescinded the order.

BTW, I find it particularly amusing, Raye Smith, that you are fixating on Governor Cuomo's working out. The governor's mansion has its own exercise equipment (as does the White House, although you'd never know it to look at the current resident.) Just recently, you posted you'd gotten too fat to fit in your summer clothes! Next time you're searching the internet, Google "exercising at home" so you can learn how to lose the fat and become more like our Governor.

Jupidupi, I found this interesting--I won't say amusing. Ironic, perhaps.

https://www.thecity.nyc/government/2020/4/12/21247125/garbage-pickups-tell-a-tale-of-two-cities-with-part-of-manhattan-shrinking

IIRC, you were part of the exodus. No?

ci_lantro, I'm not sure I see what is "ironic" in the article. It's true, a lot of New York City residents left the city for a number of reasons, including people I know who are currently caring for their loved ones in other places to help them get through this crisis. And the people still in the City are better off for it, as it has made things easier on them. My own building, which has 330 apartments, put out an email requesting that anyone who could stay somewhere else please do so, to lessen the strain on the building. It's a 16 story building and our elevators, from the 1930s, are small. Social distancing means that people have to wait for the next elevator if there are people already in it. The room with our mailboxes is about 10' x 10' -- you do the math on how many people can get their mail at once. The laundry room can be crowded when the building is full and now that people have to social distance and wipe everything down, it's way easier with fewer people. The building staff are cleaning and disinfecting all day long, and the less people, the better. The front desk staff, in the best of times, serve not only as desk attendants accepting deliveries (now with more careful requirements), but as quasi-friends, someone that the many elderly people in our building depend on for a chat and to feel like someone is staying in touch with them.

It's true, as the sanitation worker said, things are more dangerous now (although also easier for some as there is less garbage in many neighborhoods.) But it's always been a job with a certain amount of danger -- that's why the starting salary is about $40,000 and can go up to $90,000 with excellent retirement benefits -- not bad for someone with limited education.

You're correct, my husband and I did leave the city. But if you think it's easy for a person to go through this extremely emotionally trying time and not be home in the place that they love, you are very, very wrong. (Is that the "irony" you're talking about?)

Alisande - is Fox News reputable - absolutely!

No, YOU THINK fox news is reputable. They are not.

Yes, Olychick, Fox News and the Wall Street Journal are both reputable news outlets. No news company is perfect but for the most part they don't allow their reporters to be ultra liberal media garbage.

Inspirational. Lol. Cuomo of NY, Wolf of Pa, Murphy of New Jersey and Newsom of California all committed senior genocide. They are disgusting.

Raye, I wasn't asking for the source of your nursing home comment. I was asking about the gym comment. Thankfully ratherbesewing corrected you.

That's how misinformation and rumors get spread around, by saying things that aren't true or accurate. And I don't consider Fox reputable. I guess you do if you believe everything the Dear Leader says.

jupidupi Cuoam DID NOT "As soon as it became known that returning residents to their nursing homes was a mistake, Cuomo rescinded the order." His order FINALLY came on May 10. He needs to be removed from office for gross negligence resulting in thousands of deaths.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/cuomo-reverses-nursing-home-directive-to-take-covid-19-patients-requires-more-staff-testing/2410533/

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-york-will-no-longer-require-nursing-homes-take-covid-n1204586

I do wonder where people who are recovering but are not well enough to go home should be sent.

As soon as it became known that returning residents to their nursing homes was a mistake, Cuomo rescinded the order.

Jupidupi, that simply is not true. Here is a clipping from the Seattle Times, date March 18, 2020--almost a week before Cuomo signed the executive order on March 25 mandating Covid positive patients return to nursing homes.

Last month, there were 120 residents at Life Care. As of Wednesday, at least 81 have tested positive for the coronavirus and of those, 34 have died, as well as a visitor. About a fourth of the coronavirus fatalities in the U.S. have been linked to the nursing home, according to state and federal data.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/times-watchdog/coronavirus-spread-in-a-kirkland-nursing-home-for-weeks-while-response-stalled/

Maifleur - usually patients that aren't well enough to go home go to a "step-down" ward. With many floors empty now in hospitals there should be plenty of room to create wards just for that reason.

Inspirational. Lol. Cuomo of NY, Wolf of Pa, Murphy of New Jersey and Newsom of California all committed senior genocide. They are disgusting.

Function, would they be disgusting if they were Republicans? Don't bother answering; if you say yes I won't believe you. Our country has become so freaking polarized..

Alisande, disgusting is disgusting. These governors committed senior genocide. What does their political affiliation have to do with it. You have to be a moron or mentally sick not to realize that if you put covid patients in with the most vulnerable population that deaths wouldn't occur.