Virus Roller Coaster

For those wondering where Cuomo’s clearest legal exposure is, it might very well be here. 

Days after the first accusation of misconduct surfaced last year against New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo (D), his staff began reaching out to a prominent advocate for sexual harassment victims and the head of the largest gay rights group for guidance as they mulled how to discredit his accuser.

This week, an independent investigation commissioned by New York Attorney General Letitia James found that the subsequent effort by the governor’s office to undermine the credibility of former Cuomo adviser Lindsey Boylan — by leaking her private employee records and circulating a draft of a letter that impugned her credibility — amounted to “unlawful retaliation.”

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The article’s focus is on the Cuomo team’s consultation with …

Attorney Roberta Kaplan, a co-founder of Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund, and Alphonso David, the president of the Human Rights Campaign, are now facing questions about their role in Cuomo’s aggressive effort to fight back against his accusers.

The subsequent retaliation against Lindsey Boykin is where the legal line was crossed. Groping, hugging and boorish comments are pretty low percentage bases for successful legal actions because proof generally is primarily based on credibility of the victim. Leaked employment files and letters impugning an accuser are much higher quality of evidence of unlawful employment retaliation. If faced with the choice I’d take the latter type of case over the former any day.

BiD – suspicion of Covid when people are having cold symptoms is apparently rampant.  In fairness there’s a significant overlap of cold/flu symptoms and Covid symptoms. The Google machine lists these:

Symptoms may appear 2-14 days after exposure to the virus. People with these symptoms may have COVID-19:

Fever or chills

Cough

Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing

Fatigue

Muscle or body aches

Headache

New loss of taste or smell

Sore throat

Congestion or runny nose

Nausea or vomiting

Diarrhea

And Mayo provides this comparison:
 

Symptom or sign – COVID-19 – Cold

Cough – Usually (dry) – Usually

Muscle aches – Usually – Sometimes

Tiredness – Usually – Sometimes

Sneezing – Rarely – Sometimes

Sore throat – Usually – Usually

Runny or stuffy nose – Usually – Usually

Fever – Usually – Sometimes

Diarrhea – Sometimes – Never

Nausea or vomiting – Sometimes – Never

New loss of taste or smell – Usually (early — often without a runny or stuffy nose) –
Sometimes (especially with a stuffy nose)
 

(Apologies for the clunky formatting – it was a chart that didn’t carry formatting over.

Mrs. P had a cold for the past few days and was afraid it was “something worse”.  Alas, today it was gone.

From the Neureiter opinion, note the similarities between:

…our federal election has been tampered with and compromised by Dominion Voting Systems Inc, along with the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, his wife Priscilla Chan, and many others acting as governors/secretaries of state across the country…

And 

… the 2020 general election, and probably many more, have been compromised by a number of persons, including a corporation in the United States called Dominion Voting Machines, Inc., and others, such as, Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan; and other individuals acting as governors and secretaries of state, …

The first is from a supporting affidavit from plaintiff Amie Trapp from Alabama, the second from Alvin Criswell from Texas.  Judge Neureiter noted that “Not stated is any nonconclusory basis for Ms. Trapp to believe this. ” and “Mr. Criswell, like all the other name plaintiffs, has no first-person knowledge whatsoever of any election malfeasance nor any evidence, direct or indirect, that his own vote was not counted or was inappropriately discounted…” (Emphasis is mine).
 

And it looks like Sydney Powell and her band of idiots may be facing the same thing in Michigan.  Couldn’t happen to a nicer den of thieves.

Poobah, which one did you order and how many swabs and test strips are included?

Poobah, 👍🏻 Thanks. Looks like a different kind of at home test I’ve seen. 

As I said yesterday, Cuomo’s political days are numbered, and apparently the number is close to single digits.