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The COVID lockdown nearly killed NYC — and it was Andrew Cuomo who came close to destroying it

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Andrew Cuomo says he saved New York City from COVID-19. Fact check: He brought the Big Apple to its knees and came close to destroying it.

New Yorkers taken with Cuomo’s odious, I’m-your-hero oratory should remember how he screwed us over in 2020.

The former governor and now mayoral wannabe is properly blasted for sending 15,000 COVID victims from hospitals into nursing homes where many more died than needed to — likely as a favor to the hospital industry, which donated over $1 million to his re-election campaign in 2018.

But another Cuomo blunder haunts the city’s life and economy to this day: his stubborn, autocratic, arbitrary and vindictive lockdown and restrictions on stores, restaurants, cinemas, Broadway theaters, live concerts, museums, sports arenas, playgrounds and even zoos........

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