More than 15,000 nursing-homes and assisted-living residents in Brooklyn on Sunday in New York were mourned to believe they had died of coronovirus and were angry at Gov. Andrew Crimo’s handling of the crisis.
On a bright spring day, the group gathered on Henry Street in Cobble Hill, some holding pictures of their loved ones, with other messages indicating, “We’ll never forget.”
Tracy Alvino said that “This may sound bad to your father, but I must give it to you directly: ‘Your father is a dying man.” “‘He’s not going to come back from this. … He’s gonna die.’
“I never knew the name of that doctor. I don’t even know his face, ”Alvino told a crowd of dozens. “Because of COVID-19, I had to make the decision to call my father over the phone, to a doctor I didn’t know.”
Alvino’s father, Daniel, was among the residents of the state’s nursing home for Coronovirus’s death – and was remembered Sunday on a local “Memorial Wall” lined with photographs of the deceased.
Alvino said that I should still make a decision about letting my father go, but it had to be done.
“At that point, he was on ventilator for COVID-19 pneumonia for nine days, and every day was more severe than before.”
Alvino said that her father had not signed an order to reconsider before agreeing and found that she forced herself to make the decision, which she felt was in accordance with her wish.
The doctor said, “You have made the right decision for your father, Miss Alvino.” “‘I want to assure you that she will not pass alone.” “
But Alvino said he still had questions.
“Will he be in pain?” Does he know he is dying? ‘On Sunday I said, “Alvino said that his voice was breaking again.”
Daniel Alvino died on 14 April at the age of 76 after catching COVID-19 at a nursing home while admitted with neck surgery.
Alvino spoke to the duo to pay tribute to his father – and demanded accountability for his death from the governor.
The event was held nearly a year after Cuomo’s Health Department released on March 25, 2020, in which nursing homes were prohibited from evacuating residents based on a coronovirus diagnosis – even That when the governor publicly compared the potential impact of coronavirus on a nursing home for a wildfire in dry grass.
Cuomo ally Melissa Derasa was later caught on audio recordings praising the state’s top Democrats for claiming that the administration caused the deaths in the facilities as it feared a federal investigation.
“He’s one of the govs. Countless of Cuomo,” Alvino told his father. “It may be just a number for Melissa Derasa that she leaves from her report, but for my family, she was the glue that held us together.
“We grieving families don’t want forgiveness, and we don’t want to break bread with the village. Quomo. I don’t even want to hear their voice at this point, be completely honest with you.” We want answers, accountability and justice. Huh.”
He moved to demand his resignation, which included Cuomo and Health Commissioner Howard Zucker, as well as an independent investigation into the scandal.
Alvino spoke at the same moment after state Assemblyman Ron Kim when he blasted Cuomo, remembering his uncle, another nursing-home resident who died COVID-19.
“If it wasn’t for him, I wouldn’t be here,” his late uncle, US Army Captain Son Kim, told Kim. “He sponsored my family’s immigration papers so that we could be in this country.
“I came here from South Korea at the age of 7, and it was he who sponsored our papers so that we could be here.”
Kim Democrats drew Kim as chokes from the crowd as she recalled President Ronla Reagan’s love for her Republican uncle.
“It was 1987, I remember. The Mets had just won the World Series. I like to tell people i was named [pitcher] Ron Darling, “Kim said.” But the truth is, my uncle was not just a US Army captain, he was actually one of the first Republican Korean-Americans in New York City.
“You don’t have to clap for him,” mocked the Democrats as the applause rang out in between. “He was a big fan of Ronald Reagan at the time. So they named me after Ronald Reagan, not Ron Darling. “
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