COVID-19 Outbreak (Update: More than 2.9M cases and 132,313 deaths in US)

DaveXA said
To be clear, I'm not ignoring it, and I don't think most people are. With the benefit of hindsight, it was a terrible decision, and I don't know what the rationale was for doing it that way. But I don't think that 1 decision should define Cuomo. I don't necessarily agree with a lot of his politics, but most of his policy decisions have been pretty sound.

I still think whoever was behind that decision has to be questioned though. That cost a lot of lives.

As SBTB explained earlier, not enough hospital beds to go around, specifically in NY, to treat both the population-at-large and the nursing home population as inpatients. It is a terrible idea under normal circumstances but still the only realistic solution in the Covid era. Sometimes there are no right answers. It feels dirty, it sounds awful, but what else is there to do to conserve resources in hard hit areas?