We heard about it from the New York AG. The coverup was confirmed by his top aide, Melissa DeRosa.
Your questions above propose the idea of bias in the information delivery and reception, which inherently maps to political partisanship. What other sort of bias could your questions possibly evoke?
Cuomo was exposed and has been condemned largely by officials within his own party, and also broadly by the media, whether left, right, or center.
Correct, but for the nursing home residents and their families that too little too late. I first read about this last summer as the nursing home rules began to take effect. At the time the party and media were too busy holding Cuomo up as an anti-Trumpian figure. They gave him an Emmy and cute nicknames while this happened. It is all just a little too much for me.
> The effort by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s office to obscure the pandemic death toll in New York nursing homes was far greater than previously known, with aides repeatedly overruling state health officials over a span of at least five months, according to interviews and newly unearthed documents.
Sounds like this one got suppressed according to the article.
> someone who thinks this one got suppressed probably has an information diet that disproportionately focused attention on this screw up in order to shift attention away from their own screw up, which was orders of magnitude larger.
This is whataboutism. The article is about Cuomo's bad response to COVID regarding nursing homes.
With regard to obscuring the death toll, I agree, and Cuomo needs to be dealt with.
With regard to prioritizing this story against it's competitor, however, I think my information diet got the mix about right, which is to say in proportion to impact.
> This is whataboutism.
If we were just talking about Cuomo, sure -- but you brought up information diets and suppression, which absolutely brings into scope the nonstop 24/7 Republican efforts to use the Cuomo story as whataboutism.