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I think what OP is getting at is that it's suspicious that this became a "mainstream" news story this year when it was known last year.
by commandlinefan 6y ago
I think what OP is getting at is that it's suspicious that this became a "mainstream" news story this year when it was known last year.
- throwaway0a5e 6y agoNobody cared what the body count was until the body count turned into a house seat. The really sick thing as that this sudden influx of give-a-shits is sending the message that "the party will back you if you kill people so long as you don't lose a house seat in the process" which is not a great message to be sending.
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- danans 6y ago> Nobody cared what the body count was until the body count turned into a house seat. How did the body count turn into a house seat exactly? There are dozens of ways that New York's population count could have gone 89 in either direction and changed the house seat allocation. At those small margins, it's basically a coin toss.
- throwaway0a5e 6y agoTrue, but had a large fraction of those needless deaths not happened that would have easily given them the boost they needed to keep the seat.
- danans 6y agoThe nursing home deaths are no more or less related to the house seat than any other small scale demographic event that happened last year. The deaths are arguably far less consequential than the effect of people leaving the state to move away from the early impact of the pandemic and into remote work scenarios.
- todd8 6y agoThe 2020 Census, not today’s post Covid population count is used for congressional apportionment. The current population of NY has nothing to do with it.
- throwaway894345 6y agoAgreed. I’m a liberal and a democrat but the Dems and the media are not brave whistleblowers for suppressing the truth until the very last politically tenable moment.