Posted on 04/24/2020 8:33:56 PM PDT by John Semmens
As the nation's leader in COVID-19 fatalities, New York officials are searching for the factors that may have contributed to this negative outcome. One factor that may have played a role was Gov. Andrew Cuomo's (D) March 25th order requiring nursing homes to admit and readmit individuals who tested positive for the virus. While the Governor tried to profess ignorance of his order, Health Commissioner Howard Zucker confirmed it.
"I know that in hindsight it looks stupid," Zucker admitted, "but no one stopped to think about what we were doing. We thought old people belong in nursing homes. It just didn't occur to us that infected old people ought to be kept separate from uninfected old people. As we know now, this policy was a formula for disaster. Old people are especially susceptible to infection. The death rates skyrocketed. The only saving grace is that we have until November 2022 for voters to forget about this."
By way of damage control, Gov. Cuomo suggested that "the shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) for nursing home staff was the weak link in our strategy. I had to beg for these supplies from the federal government and it took some time for them to be manufactured and delivered. That puts the blame firmly on President Trump for not being adequately prepared to deal with the pandemic." Left unmentioned was Cuomo's 2015 decision to cut funding for emergency medical supplies from the State's budget.
Meanwhile, paramedics in New York have been issued a statewide "do-not-resuscitate" directive. Cuomo justified this order, saying "the vast majority of the people EMTs revive end up eventually dying. Rather than waste valuable hospital space on these cases we needed to free-up beds for COVID patients." Ironically, the 3,000-bed hospital that the US Army set up in New York City's Javits Center for the COVID emergency remains 99% vacant.
In related news, Cuomo called the increase in domestic violence that has arisen in the wake of increased unemployment and the lockdown "an acceptable trade-off compared to the certain death of allowing people to risk exposure to COVID that would occur if they are allowed to go back to work. The number of battered spouses that are dying during the lockdown is dwarfed by the number of lives saved from the virus. In fact, I think we might want to consider making lockdowns one of the features of the new normal we are building in this country."
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So, we were all supposed to socially distance anywhere in public - having been advised to do so starting March 16, but these “public health professionals” hadn’t figgered that out yet?
It will soon be found out that NYS was getting to keep the difference in Uncle Sugar hospital money by dumping nursing home residents back in their (cheaper than a hospital) facility.
When that happens, Cuomo will drop below the Fantasy Guv of GA in the veepstakes.
Thanks John.
So, Cuomo is a murderer.
Very good, John
So, Cuomo is a murderer.
Only in a sense the way Stalin was a murderer. He didn’t personally kill them. He just sent them to a place where they were apt to die. Kinda like Stalin sending “unpersons” to the Gulags.
What is sad is that this guy ruthlessly exploited this virus, fueled the panic in every way (both the hysteria which also caused for a miss allocation of resources, but also with his poor decisions the actual outcomes in getting more people sick), used it to slander his political opponents and grand stand. Question is, will he get away with it and look like a knight in shining silver armor, or will he smell like poop when this is over? The media loves him, so he has a huge leg up.
Social distance on a NYC subway car. Good luck with that. Trump’s fault.
According to Cuomo, he needs 40,000 ventilators. Because 80% of people put on ventilators die. But you can’t get HQC because it may cause heart arrhythmia in 1 in 100,000.
So only give HQC to people on ventilators.
If he was seriously scrutinized, he wouldn’t stand up to the scrutiny. But as you said, the media won’t scrutinize him. I heard it live, he said 900 people were on ventilators, that the state had 14,000 in storage, and that he needed 40,000 ventilators.
Nobody questioned in him on this logic for 3 days!
Nobody questioned why ventilators were even needed, when 4 out of 5 people put on them die. Is there any “proof” that they work? Is there even any proof they don’t cause more harm than good? Not a shred. But nobody scrutinizes it.
But stay away from HQC. It only has a 65 year track record and no documented cases of anyone dying from it after taking it as prescribed for 5-7 days that I know of.
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