CREATING “SHOCK AND AWE”: CUOMO GAVE DEADLY ORDER FORCING COVID PATIENTS INTO NURSING HOMES THE SAME DAY MORGUE TRUCKS WERE ORDERED FOR MEDIA

By Ralph Lopez, reprinted with permission

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As March approaches, so does the third anniversary the March 25, 2020 order from then-NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo which famously seeded the state’s nursing homes with COVID patients, despite an excess of space available in the converted Jacob Javits Center and the nearly empty Navy hospital ship the USNS Comfort in New York Harbor.

Under the controversial March 25 order, the Health Department barred nursing homes from refusing admission to “medically stable” coronavirus patients.

Less well-known, however, is that on the same day, NYC Mayor Bill DeBlasio, with uncanny timing, ordered the first of dozens of the refrigerator trucks for dead COVID victims, which promptly filled up, and provided the media with the images which shocked the nation, and soon the world, into compliance with the new “lockdowns.”

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On March 25, 2020 Bloomberg News reported:

“New York City has bought 45 refrigerated truck trailers – each capable of holding as many as 44 bodies — in case city morgues and hospitals become overwhelmed with the number of dead from the coronavirus.”

A few weeks later, all elements were in place for the television cameras: the trucks, and COVID victims coming out of nursing homes where a spike in deaths was entirely predictable, and predicted, by high level facility executives.

The images of refrigerator trucks filled with corpses in NYC provided the “shock and awe” which frightened people into obedience to authority, in a nation of rabble not used to being told what to do. This was the plan, and it was entirely deliberate.

In May of that year, ABC News reported in “NY’s Cuomo criticized over highest nursing home death toll”:

“…critics have suggested nursing homes were already overwhelmed and a better solution might have been sending them to the virtually empty Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, which was retrofitted to treat COVID-19 patients, or an even less utilized Navy hospital ship that has since left Manhattan.

As the virus was racing through his nursing home, the head of Brooklyn’s Cobble Hill Health Center frantically emailed state health officials April 9 asking just that.

“Is there a way for us to send our suspected covid cases to the Javitz center or the ship?” Donny Tuchman wrote.

Tuchman said he was denied permission. Eventually, more than 50 residents at his home would die.“

Photo of refrigerated morgue trucks broadcast across US in early April, 2020, weeks after Cuomo nursing home order *(source: New York Times).

In an April 24, 2020 report the NY Post related in “New York refused to send nursing home’s COVID-19 patients to nearly empty USNS Comfort”:

“Cobble Hill Health Center CEO Donny Tuchman sent a desperate email to state Health Department officials on April 9, asking if there was “a way for us to send our suspected covid patients” to the hospital built inside the Javits Convention Center or the US Naval hospital ship Comfort — the under-utilized federal medical facilities on Manhattan’s West Side.”

““We don’t have the ability to cohort right now based on staffing and we really want to protect our other patients,” Tuchman wrote in a chain of the emails reviewed by The Post.”

“He was denied.”

The NY Post reported in that piece:

“At the time Tuchman sent his plea, only 134 of the 1,000 beds at the Javits Center were full and the Comfort — which had just been reconfigured to treat up to 500 COVID-19 patients — had a mere 62 on board.”

The NY Post, in a shocking April 23, 2020 article which shows the Cuomo administration outdid itself, nursing homes reported receiving COVID patients with extra body bags included in their shipments.

In “Coronavirus patients admitted to Queens nursing home — with body bags”, the NY Post writes:

“The first coronavirus patients admitted to a Queens nursing home under a controversial state mandate arrived along with some grim accessories — a supply of body bags, The Post has learned.

An executive at the facility — which was previously free of the deadly disease — said the bags were in the shipment of personal protective equipment received the same day the home was forced to begin treating two people discharged from hospitals with COVID-19…Within days, three of the bags were filled with the first of 30 residents who would die there after Gov. Cuomo’s Health Department handed down its March 25 directive that bars nursing homes from refusing to admit “medically stable” coronavirus patients, the exec said.”

In the article a nursing home executive says:

“Cuomo has blood on his hands. He really does. There’s no way to sugarcoat this,”

In the April 24, 2020 NY Times article “Playing Russian Roulette’: Nursing Homes Told to Take the Infected,” interviewed an NYC Physical therapist who works in nursing homes worker, and reported:

“Mina Ebrahem, 31, a physical therapist in New York City, works for agencies that have sent him to several nursing homes over the past month…

“Whoever made this decision, whoever did this, I consider this a sentence of death for all the older patients, whoever is in a nursing home,” he said.”

Cuomo is not the only governor who came under fire for admitting COVID patients into nursing homes, which in New York took nearly 50% of the state’s COVID deaths that year, which only became apparent after it emerged that the Cuomo administration had been undercounting nursing home COVID deaths. Cuomo’s order was mimicked in four other states, all run by Democratic governors: NJ Gov. Phil Murphy on March 31, PA Gov. Tom Wolf on March 31, MI Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on April 15, and CA Gov. Gavin Newsom on March 30.

Ironically, refrigerated morgue trucks are now being seen in the UK, to handle excess deaths from all causes suspected by many to be linked to the COVID vaccines. This time the images have received no media fanfare.

UK morgue refrigeration unit (Source Jan. 11, 2023)

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