That’s not the whole story though. Again, it was here first, before we had any testing capacity and NJ changed the rule in early April that facilities had to be able quarantine those with Covid to take patients back.
It was already in the nursing homes and studies have shown you are most contagious right before your symptoms start. Do you know how long you are contagious after you have been sick?
How did it get to the nursing homes in the first place? Obviously not from discharged patients. Maybe from the nursing staff who was not quarantined, and not yet given a test and didn't know they were infected?
And as it spread to other states the extra time gave them the opportunity to establish better protocols for non residents at the facilities?
If the policy caused the virus to be introduced to a facility where no patients were previously infected, I would agree that you could blame him for that. My understanding right now though is that is not the case.