Social media users criticized ‘Saturday Night Live’ this past weekend for confronting the huge parent-scandal scandal with the New York government, Andrew Cuomo, and instead chose to mock his appearance and COVID-19 reopening guidelines.
The Weekend Update hosts referred the New York Democrat twice in the segment, but made no mention of the growing allegations that his office deliberately covered up thousands of deaths in nursing homes during the coronavirus pandemic.
Host Michael Che compared Cuomo to the ‘real model’ for Moe Syslack, referring to the bartender character in ‘The Simpsons’, while describing the expansion of the COVID-19 vaccine for New York to include those with underlying conditions. close.
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“New Yorkers will need to provide documentation of their condition and answer medical questions such as, ‘What is it?’ Said Che.
Co-host Colin Jost also set aside Cuomo’s plan to reopen sports stadiums to allow 10 percent of fans.
“The Cuomo government has also announced that it will allow sports facilities to open from February 23, but this limits it to 10 percent capacity – better known as Jets level,” Jost said.
Twitter users were quick to point out the segment’s striking omission from the New York Post bombing report alleging that Cuomo’s office deliberately covered thousands of COVID-19 nursing deaths for fear the data could be ‘used against us’ .
“Wow, two jokes on SNL about COVID and Cuomo, but zero on the cover. Wow. What, was that too easy?”, One Twitter user said. wrote.
“Super cute how the SNL weekend raised Governor Cuomo twice and not the thirty thousand disabled people he killed,” he said. tweeted.
The Post reports that Governor Melissa DeRosa, during a video conference call to the leading Empire State Democrats last week, said the government was misrepresenting the actual number of deaths to DOJ investigators for fear the data could be used against us. ‘.
In August, the DOJ investigated coronavirus deaths in nursing homes in four states, including New York.
‘We were in a position where we were not sure whether what we would give to the Department of Justice, or what we would give to you, what we were starting to say, would be used against us while we were not. sure whether there will be an investigation, ”DeRosa told lawmakers according to the Post report.
Cuomo refused for months to release information on how the pandemic hit residents of the nursing home, but pointed to figures that were more favorable to his government.
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The state was recently forced to acknowledge that the death toll from the nursing home reached nearly 15,000, after earlier reporting 8,500 – a number that excluded residents who died after being taken to hospitals. The new toll amounts to about one-seventh of the people living in nursing homes in New York in 2019.