K this ended up being quite a book of a comment in response to such a tiny portion of your comment but ya..
As far as the USNS Comfort hospital ship....... there was a palpable fear that hospitals would be overflowing with Covid patients at the time. New Daily covid cases had skyrocketed from:
122 cases on March 15th to
4,805 on March 24th.
A pretty insane amount to increase in 9 days. Nobody knew where it was going. The stock market was also taking a massive sh*t. People were freaking out.. but ya March 25th, Cuomo unfortunately decided to initiate the nursing home directive.
The USNS Comfort as well as the largest of the many field hospitals which were scrambled to get set up in NY, the Javits center, (which had a max capacity of ~3,000 patients if necessary) did not arrive/get completed until March 30th, 5 days after his nursing home directive.
Was about 10 days later the daily Covid case count had already peaked though and then began to decline... Which is lucky as far as humanity but horrible as far as optics.
To be fair, Cuomo could've immediately re-routed the Covid recovering patients to the USNS Comfort and various field hospitals when they were made available but we're talking about covid patients who had been discharged from the hospital (possibly thought to have been not contagious or less contagious(?) idk)... Also from what I have read the USNS Comfort had not originally been set up to receive Covid patients, it had been set up to receive typical non-covid related hospital patients/injuries.. to relieve hospitals of having to deal with them. However, due to lockdowns and staying at home, typical injuries a hospital might otherwise see had declined so ya the ship was pretty empty.
Somewhat off topic but it also seems somewhat interesting to me that roughly 2 weeks after his nursing home directive began, Covid daily cases in NY had peaked and began coming down. Covid symptoms might not even appear for 2 weeks so idk.. seems counterintuitive that 2 weeks after initiating the nursing home thing, the NY cases began decreasing...... But I guess its possible that cases outside of nursing homes were declining at a faster rate than they were increasing within them.. possibly masking the negative effect of the horrible idea that it was. Idk.. just a theory.