Peter Arbeeny who, along with his brother Daniel, lost his father to COVID-19, tells 'Fox & Friends' New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo should get an 'Academy Award for directing and creating a horror show in nursing homes.'
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Jedediah New York, Governor
Jedediah New York, Governor
Andrew Cuomo, will receive an
Emmy for his daily
coronavirus briefing, despite the
thousands of seniors who
died from coronavirus in New
York, nursing homes.
Our next guest lost their 89
year old Father to the virus,
who was a patient at a nursing
home facility in Brooklyn
last month. They helped organize
a mock funeral for Cuomos
leadership and integrity. Daniel
and Peter Arvini join me now.
Thank you both for joining me on
this very sad topic. Our hearts
go out to you for losing your
father at this time,
really really terrible
Daniel. If you would just first
tell us a little bit about your
father, his story and how he died,
sure
my father was a vivacious 88
year old man who
was still working at eighty eight, very
sharp christmastime. We enjoyed
it together
immediately after Christmas, he
got sick and that led to a
series of three months of him
being in the hospital being in
rehab, which culminated
around March twenty five with us being
told, while he was in rehab at a
nursing home, we need to take him
home because they were being
forced to accept covid patients
and regardless of how many
elected officials locally called
the governor and the nursing
homes called and said. Please
dont do this one of the many
other facilities that they could
use, including the Samaritans
purse and central Park, the FEMA
and setup in the Javi
Ts Centeter. He could for
six weeks ish he sent Covid
patients to nursing homes and
that ended. When we took our
father out, we saw how bad the
nursing homes were because
they werent getting support and
we partnered with a couple. Local
organizations and the community
raised money donated thousands
of pieces of Ppe.
Before my father passed after
my father passed and in my
familys name in one week, Jed-
and I say this very um its
hard for people to hear this
so ill. Just say it:
in one week we had five of our
family members die.
Four from Covid three were in
nursing homes,
Jedediah Daniel thats
terrible, and I hate to interrupt.
Please
I hate to do this, but I just
want to make sure we get Peter
in as well into this segment, and
this is all just breath- takingly
horrible news
Peter. What was your reaction to
hearing that Cuomo was getting
the Emmy?
I would think that he just
doesnt deserve an Emmy.
He deserves an academy award for
directing and creating a
horror show in nursing homes.
His March twenty five directive to put
positive covid patients back
into nursing homes was done
without any science and
thousands of people died and me,
and my brothers stand before the
american people as Covid
offerings and theres. Thousands
of us and people did not need to
die, and if it was a mistake
which it was the governor needs
to own his mistakes, he needs to
apologize for his mistakes and
we need closure and an
investigation into this order
to protect the most vulnerable.
His first defense to his order
was he used. The word called
discrimination and he stated
that we cannot discriminate
against covid patients and I
believe that there was no one in
America that believes protecting
the most vulnerable population
in nursing homes.
Jedediah. I hate to interrupt.
You guys were unfortunately up
against a hard break, but we
greatly appreciate you being
here. Our hearts go out to you
for your losses and we hope that
you receive the justice that you
seek.
Thank you so much for joining us.
Transcript generated on 2020-11-22.