Every then and now

My mother’s death would be a tragedy; 10,000 of your mothers is a statistic

March 20, 2020, Mario Cuomo, announcing the complete shutdown of New York State: “If everything we do saves just one life, I’ll be happy”.

March 24, 2020: “We’re not gonna put the economy ahead of old people. I don’t want my mother to die, you don’t want your mother to die. No human life is disposable. What is this, some kind of sick Social Darwinism?

January 26, 2021: “Who cares where they died?”

“Ninety-six percent who die are older people with comorbidities, which happens to be the population that lives in nursing homes. It’s continuing today even with all the testing that we’re doing”

“Look, whether a person died in a hospital or died in a nursing home, it’s — people died. People died ….”

“Those same people “are dying today.”