The worst part is, bits of this were known from the beginning of the pandemic, but that didn't stop him from becoming a national hero on the left, despite a pandemic performance that ranged from unlucky at best to inept/corrupt at worst. It's only once Trump was out of office that a big chunk of the population (partially) woke up from this weird delirium in which literally everything bad is Trump's fault and literally everyone who isn't him is a saint.

In light of deep stupidity like this, it baffles me that people bother using models of electorate behavior more sophisticated than emotionally-incontinent monkeys banging on typewriters. There's more consistency and intelligence evident in the way six year olds pick their favorite power rangers.

Are you saying that nursing home patients should be moved to live on the street? Where else could they go?

Hospitals.

The US military docked a hospital ship in New York Harbor during the peak of the initial outbreak. That ship remained almost entirely unused [0] while COVID-positive adults were being discharged from hospitals straight back to nursing homes, where they died and/or infected others. The emergency hospital established in New York's Javits Convention Center went similarly underutilized [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_ships_designated_for_...

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/why-nycs-largest-emergency-h...

Some could have been sent? An attempt made?

It is a hospital's job to keep beds open. They would shuffle people into nursing homes (or the street) without any direction to do otherwise.

There were plenty of empty beds in NYC hospitals. The hospital ship they brought was pretty much entirely unused.