Gov. Kathy Hochul simply reupped her endlessly extended COVID “emergency,” even though any exact emergency ended months in the past at the newest.

So her order’s primary affect is to feed lingering hysteria — and to let her end-run state laws to the advantage of some giant Hochul donors.

The order, courting to the Omicron surge of past due 2021, suspends aggressive bidding for some state contracts in addition to the state Comptroller’s Office’s overview ahead of bills move out.

This let scientific tool exec Charlie Tebele — whose circle of relatives donated just about $300,000 to Hochul’s marketing campaign — seize state trade value a mind-boggling $637 million for fast exams. 

Meanwhile, the coronavirus has lengthy since turn into not anything greater than a background well being risk to just about everybody in New York: In a state of 20 million other folks, deaths with COVID (no longer essentially as a result of it) were 20 or much less an afternoon since March; the day-to-day sanatorium inhabitants with the trojan horse has been underneath 2,500 since past due February.

There’s no imaginable final public well being justification for Hochul’s “emergency”: She both doesn’t wish to let move of her (successful) added energy, or she’s afraid to confess the most obvious.

Corrupt or incompetent: Neither is a great glance, gov.