In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the governor of California did just what Andrew Cuomo did in New York. He ordered nursing homes to admit COVID-positive patients. This appears to have allowed the virus to spread to the most vulnerable population, just as it did in New York. And, it's about time people started noticing.
The grass-roots movement to recall California Governor Gavin Newsom has reached well over the 1.5 million petition signatures needed to qualify for a special election. And with several weeks to go, the recall organizers are aiming for more than 2 million signatures to send a clear message to the one-party state's leadership in Sacramento.
The momentum building behind the Newsom recall is justified based on his perceived mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic in his state as well as blatant hypocrisy displayed in the now-infamous big-money special interest gourmet dinner he attended at the exclusive French Laundry restaurant defying his own draconian orders prohibiting such gatherings.
His subsequent smirking denials and obfuscations over the event cemented the narrative that Newsom is an out-of-touch elitist demanding prohibition against dining and in-class instruction for his citizens while he enjoys the high-life and his kids attend private school.
Add to that the brewing scandal involving upward of $30 billion of unemployment benefits being funneled to convicted felons in the prison system instead of the starving Californians who've been forced out of work by the governor's mandates, and you have the perfect recipe for the grassroots revolt we are witnessing with the recall ballot petitions.
And, as if those reasons weren't enough, it now appears that Newsom will soon have to deal with a Cuomo-like nursing home scandal of his own. This story could put the final political nail in Newsom's coffin and secure his removal from office.
Here's what the Sacramento Bee reported this week:
A year into the pandemic, California’s workplace safety watchdog still doesn’t know how many nursing home workers have contracted COVID-19 on the job and died, a Sacramento Bee review of state records shows.
California’s health department regularly updates a list of COVID-19 infections and deaths at nursing homes. But only about half of those listed facilities have bothered to report the death to Cal/OSHA, the agency in charge of enforcing worker safety, according to the state records.
The failure to report the COVID-19 deaths — by as many as 64 nursing homes — exposes a significant flaw in the state’s response to the pandemic. The state is unable to fully track the spread of the deadly disease in a workplace setting where, more than anywhere else in California, the virus is ruthlessly stalking employees and patients.
The failure to report COVID deaths from nursing homes is certainly reminiscent of Cuomo's attempt to cover-up the full extent of deaths in the Empire State, but is Newsom also culpable (like Cuomo) for an executive directive forcing COVID-positive patients into those long term care facilities?
read more here: https://townhall.com/columnists/larryoconnor/2021/02/19/gavin-newsoms-cuomostyle-nursing-home-scandal-n2585014
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