Bill de Blasio was hankering for a scapegoat. The need was entirely understandable.
On the mayor’s watch, New York City has more than 162,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus and more than 17,000 deaths — the most of any American city by far. Subway cars have turned into homeless encampments; nursing homes have become charnel houses. There is a hospital in the East Meadow of Central Park, and mass graves are being filled on a small island off the coast of the Bronx. Just yesterday came the news that dozens of bodies were rotting in two trucks outside a funeral home in Brooklyn, discovered only when neighbors complained of the stench.
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