As evidence emerged over the weekend that thousands of elderly citizens have died as a result of New York Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo’s decision to house COVID patients in nursing homes, this is Hillary Clinton’s response to that horrific scandal:

“I’m missing our Chappaqua Memorial Day parade today while also feeling grateful to leaders like @NYGovCuomo for making responsible decisions to keep people safe. Wishing everyone a safe and healthy holiday. @BillClinton and I will be waving our flags at home.”

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More than two weeks ago The New York Times reported that one-third of all COVID deaths across the nation have happened in nursing homes. Early on in the virus crisis the first major deaths occurred in a Washington state nursing home. That was the outbreak that surprised the nation and got the ball rolling for President Trump’s virus team and the national virus response.

The Times, given its editorial views, must be required reading in the governor’s office in Albany. How in the world did they miss that data and if they didn’t then why in God’s name did they put COVID patients in places they knew would be death traps?

The numbers speak for themselves: over 4,500 COVID patients were sent to New York state nursing homes—that move resulted in the death of over 5,800 nursing home patients. The blood of every one of them is on the hands of Governor Andrew Cuomo. Cheering him at every turn and Lady MacBeth-like trying to wash the blood off, by inane tweets, is Hillary Clinton.

Twitter was awash with criticism of Clinton: “Responsible leaders don’t send COVID positive patients to the homes of the most vulnerable to infect them and leave them to die. But then you’re used to leaving vulnerable people to die, aren’t you? #Benghazi #Haiti #ClintonBodyCount”… Your buddy threw infected Covid patients into nursing homes to kill the elderly and drive the panic. Guess you really are birds of a feather,” said Lyn Smith.

The Associated Press reports, “’It was the single dumbest decision anyone could make if they wanted to kill people,’ Daniel Arbeeny said of the directive, which prompted him to pull his 88-year-old father out of a Brooklyn nursing home where more than 50 people have died. His father later died of COVID-19 at home. ‘This isn’t rocket science,’ Arbeeny said. ‘We knew the most vulnerable — the elderly and compromised — are in nursing homes and rehab centers.’ Told of the AP’s tally, the NY state Health Department said late Thursday it ‘can’t comment on data we haven’t had a chance to review, particularly while we’re still validating our own comprehensive survey of nursing homes admission and re-admission data in the middle of responding to this global pandemic.'”

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Mr. Arbeeny and his father have paid the ultimate cost because Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Health Department couldn’t read their own statistics. This is but a small picture of a larger bungled virus response at all levels of government. From initial steps, to shutting the economy down, to today’s efforts by some to keep it shut, only a very few in government, like the governors of Texas and South Dakota, have kept their heads and acquitted themselves well during this period. For the others, the piper will eventually have to be paid.