Exactly. For Cuomo's criminal deadly deed, the closest historic analogy is trading Small-Pox laden blankets to the Indians.
Except that that isn't really an analogy. When Lord Amherst donated blankets from small-pox victims to the Indians, the "contagion theory of disease" (meaning the true theory that infectious diseases are caused by an agent that can be transmitted from the infected to others, bacterium, virus, or in rarer cases some other microorganism) was held in disrepute as "blaming the victim", and instead the "miasma theory" of disease was generally believed (and was until sometime in the mid-19th century).
Unlike Lord Amherst, Cuomo knew perfectly well that the disease was contagious, that the elderly were particularly at risk, and nonetheless gave an order that had the foreseeable effect of spreading a death-dealing contagion. According to the scientific lights of his day (If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!), Lord Amherst was just getting rid of surplus blankets.
