The media is reporting with frantic urgency about a scandal involving the Democratic governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo. This is the same governor who instated a policy in the spring of 2020 requiring nursing homes to admit COVID patients. Many thousands of elderly perished because of that policy. The alleged cover up — Cuomo’s aides allegedly underreported the official fatality numbers in order to downplay nursing home deaths — is only now coming fully to light. This is, without question, a major scandal. But that is not the scandal that the media has plastered all over its headlines. It is not what has prompted fellow Democrats to call for his resignation. It is not the scandal that forced Cuomo to hold a press conference and publicly apologize for his behavior. No, what sparked that level of attention and backlash are sexual harassment allegations against the governor.
It appears that we are putting the deaths of thousands of human beings to the side for the moment so that we can focus on the apparently even more serious charge that Andrew Cuomo made inappropriate remarks to a few women. The Washington Post has the details on those accusations:
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