Posted on 05/14/2020 2:53:43 PM PDT by grundle
New York and New Jersey required nursing homes to admit patients who had tested positive for COVID-19.
NPR reported:
New York and New Jersey both have ordered nursing homes to admit patients regardless of their COVID-19 status.
In my opinion, this policy constitutes mass murder.
Nursing home patients are elderly. And they have major health conditions. No one is more vulnerable to dying from COVID-19 than people in nursing homes.
Ordering nursing homes to admit patients who have tested positive for COVID-19 is an extremely mean, dumb, stupid, irrational, irresponsible, and insane thing to do.
Florida did the opposite. It prohibited patients who had tested positive for COVID-19 from being put in nursing homes.
The Palm Beach Post reported:
Coronavirus Florida: DeSantis: Florida nursing homes safer than other states
With COVID-19 cases ravaging nursing homes across the state, Gov. Ron DeSantis went on the defensive Wednesday, insisting Florida has done more to protect the elderly than most other states.
Pointing to charts that showed that Florida has had far fewer deaths per capita than New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and even Colorado, DeSantis insisted that the state’s strategy to protect those most at risk for the deadly disease has worked.
“Florida’s approach was to avoid introducing the disease into long-term care facilities,” he said at news conference from the Capitol. “We drew a firm red line.”
State health officials on Wednesday reported that 776 nursing home residents and staff have died of COVID-19, including 83 in Palm Beach County. But, DeSantis insisted the number is low, considering Florida is the third most populous state in the nation and has a high concentration of senior citizens.
Criticizing New York, which he also blames for bringing the coronavirus into Florida, DeSantis said the Empire State initially required nursing homes to take COVID-19-infected patients from hospitals to free up needed critical care beds.
That allowed the virus to spread among New York’s most frail citizens, he said.
In contrast, DeSantis prohibited Florida hospitals from discharging patients with the disease to the state’s 4,400 long-term care facilities, which are home to 150,000 residents and employ 200,000 people.
That policy, he said, is one of the key reasons an average of only two elder-care residents per 100,000 people have died in Florida since the pandemic began in mid-March. The actual number is 3.5 per 100,000.
In New Jersey, out of every 100,000 people in the state, 51 nursing home resident have died. In New York, nearly 27 have died. Even Colorado, which has had a comparatively low 1,067 deaths, more than 10 nursing home residents have died per capita.
And as a result, Florida’s rate of death in nursing homes is far, far, lower than New York’s or New Jersey’s.
The Palm Beach Post reported the following rates of elder-care resident deaths per 100,000 people:
Florida: 3.5
New York: nearly 27
New Jersey: 51
Florida did a far, far better job than New York and New Jersey.
And I still maintain my claim that what New York and New Jersey did constitutes mass murder.
But, according to demonicRATS and The Fake News Media, who is the hero and who is the goat?
I still don’t know why Cuomo and the PA med chief are still walking around breathing.
Cuomo guilty of murder. Perhaps he’s trying to rid society of useless eaters.
The result speaks for itself, but I wouldn’t call it mass murder.
Well, the good part is the nursing home folks in Florida likely fled NY and NJ to avoid high taxes, so more of them will vote Republican.
Trials for both NY & NJ governors for accessories to mur Pder
Time for relatives to file wrongful death suits on the governors.
What about the bitch in Michigan? What did she order?
I know first hand Half Whit did the same thing in Mi.
New York and New Jersey Governors Cuomo and Murphy had the option of using the Trump provided USS Comfort to place convalescing COVID-19 patients. Instead they forced these patients into nursing homes with ill prepared, ill trained staff and vulnerable elderly patients. Many sickened and died. They also have made it nearly impossible for primary physicians to prescribe hydroxychloroquine, a drug that Trump mentioned, early in the disease when it does the most good.
These vile Democrats have blood on their corrupt,stinking hands.
> Time for relatives to file wrongful death suits on the governors. <
Right. This outrage cannot be allowed to fade away.
“...Cuomo guilty of murder. Perhaps he’s trying to rid society of useless eaters...”
They’re trying to get as much mileage out of their Fauxi-paid virus as they possibly can. Killing off some “useless eaters” to drive up the numbers is a “win-win” for them. Yeah, the communist POSs definitely have blood on their hands and it’s borderline mass murder. They should be tried for it too.
So did Pennsylvania and other states. In PA the health commissioner man beast took her mother out before she infected them. A CALL FOR A FEDERAL INVESTIGATION HEADS MUST ROLL THIS IS PREMEDITATED MURDER
“who is the hero and who is the goat?”
All I can tell you is I live in Fla, I’m surf fishing on the beach and going to every restaurant for dine in I want AND I got a haircut last week! HA!
Death by Cuomo and Murphy
2nd-ary to Fauci
“The result speaks for itself, but I wouldn’t call it mass murder.”
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Then just what you call it???
These leaders were telling everyone just how contagious and deadly this virus is, and yet they used nursing homes as DUMPING grounds for some of the most frail in society.
What did they think would happen?
Don’t be a stooge. They were sentencing people to their deaths. Elderly who were prevented from family acting as their advocates by preventing visitation on top of everything else. These nursing home folks might have been as well thrown to the wolves.
“...S i c k...”
Typical MO for communists.
To add insult to injury, or death in this case, they shipped body bags to the nursing homes along with the virus patients!!! They knew exactly what they were doing and both should be tried for outright murder.
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