They get hammered for their restrictions, because a large percentage of DDFers are inconvenienced by them.
Are you effing kidding me? We were just inconvenienced by the restrictions he made only on Jews and removed when others had larger spikes? Or the restrictions he removed for political demonstrations? Or the hubris of declaring himself the victor over covid with the second wave still going on?
And the nursing homes being early is not an excuse. Plenty of other states realized how problematic that was and reversed that rule the day or day after it was put in place.
And this is without getting into how he started off badly because he refused to use the info from federal agencies and used his own health dept. On DDF we were speaking about person to person transmission and asymptomatic transmission before NY accepted that as fact. He also didn't use other countries as examples, and when we were discussing Italy here, NY hospitals were issuing protocols that it would be no worse than the flu.
And lest you think he got hit first, California, Florida, Washington and others got hit earlier and instituted very different rules to NY.
And the NY numbers are drastically under counted. Listen to reports from FDNY paramedics who were responding to calls for dead people in Queens round the clock before testing was in place. It's gut wrenching.