Social media users criticized “Saturday Night Live” over the weekend for covering up the massive nursing home scandal that involved New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, preferring to mock his appearance and the COVID-19 reopening guidelines.
Weekend Update hosts mentioned the New York Democrat twice in the industry, but did not mention the growing claims that their office deliberately covered up thousands of deaths in nursing homes during the coronavirus pandemic.
Presenter Michael Che compared Cuomo to Moe Syslack’s “real-life model”, referring to the bartender character in “The Simpsons” when describing New York’s expansion of the COVID-19 vaccine’s eligibility to include those with underlying diseases.
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“New Yorkers will have to provide documentation of their condition and answer medical questions like, ‘What’s wrong with you?'” Said Che.
Co-host Colin Jost also pointed out Cuomo’s plan to reopen sports stadiums to allow 10% of fans.
“Governor Cuomo also announced that he would allow sports facilities to open from February 23, but would limit them to 10 percent of capacity – better known as jet level,” said Jost.
Twitter users were quick to point out the blatant omission of the New York Post bombshell segment, claiming that Cuomo’s office deliberately covered up thousands of deaths in COVID-19 nursing homes for fear that the data could “be used. Against us “.
“Wow, two SNL jokes about COVID and Cuomo, but none about cover-up. Wow. What, was that too easy?”, A Twitter user wrote.
“Super cute as the SNL weekend update mentioned Governor Cuomo twice and not the thirteen thousand disabled people he murdered,” another tweeted.
The Post reported that Melissa DeRosa, the governor’s secretary, told leader Empire State Democrats during a videoconference last week that the government misrepresented the actual death toll to DOJ investigators for fear that the data could “be used against us. “.
The DOJ began investigating coronavirus deaths in nursing homes in four states in August – including New York.
“We were in a position where we were not sure whether what we were going to give to the Department of Justice, or what we gave you, what we started to say, would be used against us while we were not sure if there would be an investigation,” DeRosa told lawmakers, according to the Post’s report.
Cuomo refused for months to release data on how the pandemic hit nursing home residents, rather than pointing to numbers more favorable to his administration.
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The state was recently forced to acknowledge that the death toll in nursing homes has reached almost 15,000, after previously reporting 8,500 – a figure that excluded residents who died after being taken to hospitals. The new number reached about a seventh of the people living in nursing homes in 2019 in New York.