The gadol advised us not to do the story. He knew Cuomo, he knew the price our community could pay
Watching the downfall of Andrew Cuomo prompted me to search through my old emails.
More than a year ago, there was a story I felt it urgent for Mishpacha to cover: Cuomo’s horrific mismanagement of New York’s nursing homes during the first Covid wave.
I don’t know if there is a single leader anywhere in the world who “got Covid right” — the price for any decision is just so high that there have been countless victims in every direction, whether leaders put lives or livelihoods first. But the numbers coming out of the nursing homes, and Cuomo’s hubristic, opportunistic portrayal of himself as a victor in the face of so many hushed deaths, seemed to bespeak something beyond the standard leadership woes.
On June 15, 2020, I sent an email to one of our top writers.
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