This whole "covid is fake or cuomo killed a bunch of nursing home residents" false dichotomy is annoying me. Clearly some shareblue talking point to discredit the fact that the virus is a lie. Yes, putting sick people into nursing homes while you are broadcasting on every form of media that there is a deadly virus going around that specifically targets the elderly is going to scare the **** out of the people already there. Just put yourself in those shoes. Yes, fear and anxiety can cause illness and even death in people who are already on the last leg of their life. The people placed in the nursing home could be sick with anything (of course they probably had a cold, the flu, pneumonia or whatever), the point is that psychologically it doesn't matter what they have because the nonsick people in that nursing home are going to think that a deadly plague was just brought into their home. No covid-19 required.

Also it goes well beyond just the nursing home debacles. That is almost a distraction from the real killing field, which were the emergency hospitals that went up in NY where they were having people sign do not resuscitate orders (these old peole who didnt have advocates for them probably didnt even read what they were signing). There are a number of nurses who blew the whistle on this. If you look at the nursing home deaths as a percentage of total deaths "due to covid" in new york you will see new york has one of the lowest percentages in the US. This is because of the actual mass killing that occurred in NYC was not in the nursing homes, it was in the emergency hospital setups. Edit: forgot to add, this was back when they were putting everyone on ventilators, people who clearly didnt need them but it was done because that was the "covid protocol" at the time. We will probably never know how many people that killed.