There is a widespread feeling that New York has been blessed with its exemplary leadership. Gov. Andrew Cuomo, incredibly enough, has sky-high approval ratings.
This is all perverse given that New York is only now emerging from one of the worst COVID debacles on the planet.
If New York is going to be held up as the model, every officeholder in the country has a new road map for handling the virus:
See a significant percentage of residents of your largest city get infected, barely prevent your hospital system from getting overwhelmed, implement a policy that increases infections and deaths at nursing homes, suffer more than 35,000 deaths and a higher per-capita death rate than any country in the world and then, after all that, get hailed as a hero.
Ask for the help from the federal government for the Comfort Ship, then the Javits Center to be transferred to a 4000 bed hospital, and the Samaritan Purse that occupied Central Park, and non was appreciated. Cuomo has raised the bar.
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