HOSPITAL VISITOR BAN IS CRUEL

boblonsberry.com ^ | 05/05/2020 | Bob Lonsberry

[shortstop]

Perhaps he needs to bring back the imagery of his mother, the Matilda for whom all this is theoretically being done. Perhaps he needs to think of his own mother, alone and unvisited in a disorienting institution. Maybe he could stand in the parking lot and wave.

[Gay State Conservative]

Having retired from a large,well known,hospital after 25 years I'm inclined to believe that “special measures” (my term) regarding visitors to hospitals and long term care facilities might be appropriate today.It would take a while to explain why I believe this but,long story short,there are many vulnerable people in such facilities and “hospital acquired infections” are found even in ordinary times and in the finest hospitals.

[NEMDF]

I believe this rule of no visitors in hospitals and nursing homes in quite widespread, not just NY.

This has been the rule in Nebraska for weeks now.

[arkfreepdom]

I hate it in hospital. Especially if critically ill.
Nursing home a little more understandable but needs to be worked around.

[CatOwner]

A prelude for the government being able to take anyone they want, stick them in a home, and keep everyone away until they pass away.

[Dawgreg]

I had a cousin go to the hospital in a Texas city and his daughter couldn’t go in with him......in the ER as well as his stay for very serious tests.....it’s here too.

[HangnJudge]

Also an issue in Prisons
Hugh out break in two penitentiaries in TN,
brought in by worker or visitor

Although “no visitor” rules have been unkind,
more unkind is the wildfire outbreaks in very fragile populations

[Ann Archy]

A neighbor lady had a stroke 6 weeks ago, and her husband hasn;t been able to see her once! Not even in the ambulance!

[Karma_Sherab]

This has been the rule in Nebraska for weeks now.

In Florida too. My neighbor, who was 87 and in ill health, but still going strong, had a setback during all this.
Had to be hospitalized and wasn't allowed visitors
Got severely depressed, and according to his wife, just gave up

Would have been different maybe if they at least let his wife in

[NEMDF]

My husband went in to hospital on 4/13, was in ICU most of 2 weeks, then moved to a rehab place. No visitors this entire time, but the hospital was going to let me sit with him if/while he passed away. They would hold phone up to him, so we could talk to him, while he was in ICU.

We have been lucky to visit him at the window in the rehab place.

[Grampa Dave]

We have the same awful rules in California for Nursing Homes and hospitalized patients.

Patients in Nursing homes can’t have visitors even visitors living in the same NH. A friend died recently from the side effects of severe Parkinson’s. The last time he saw his wife, adult children and 20 something age wise grandkids was 13 March. The next day this bs started.

Another elderly woman moved from the east coast to be with her daughter. She developed pneumonia the first week of March,and was treated at a local hospital and sent to the same nursing home above about 10 March to regain her strength. She has not seen her daughter since the bs started. Her daughter decided to visit her mother regardless. The RN on duty told her to leave or be arrested.

Another friend had to have emergency gall bladder surgery/removal. About 10 days ago. His wife took him to the emergency room and was told to leave him in the car in the parking lot. As she registered him in a tent. She could only go into a small contained room with a couple of seats and bathroom. She did not see him for 5 days. Neither of them had the virus. Only 1 member of his family after a temp scan could be in that small room. Finally, they decided to go home at night. On the 5th day, post op, they released her husband. They reversed the procedure and wheeled him out to her vehicle parked outside the ER. They loaded him into their vehicle, and she drove home.

She and her family got apologies several times from the staff about the isolation. They said that they were following orders.

[Responsibility2nd]

If you truly want to limit COVID 19 in hospitals and nursing homes, then QUARANTINE THEM.

No one enters in. No one enters out.

That includes doctors, nurses and staff.

[CodeToad]

Why don’t we just shoot them? Shooting them would stop it wouldn’t it? I mean, why stop at just locking up healthcare workers and patients, just shoot them and get it over with. This virus is worth it, shoot all sick people NOW! Save us all!

/drippy-drippy-insulting-sarcasm

[frogjerk]

And it doomed scores to lonely unattended deaths.

Just take the time and think about this point for a moment. A terrible, terrible thing to do to someone. We can take precautions.

Matthew 25:35-40

"For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you made me welcome, lacking clothes and you clothed me, sick and you visited me, in prison and you came to see me." Then the upright will say to him in reply, "Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? When did we see you a stranger and make you welcome, lacking clothes and clothe you? When did we find you sick or in prison and go to see you?" And the King will answer, "In truth I tell you, in so far as you did this to one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did it to me."

[Responsibility2nd]

Kim Jong Un; Is that you?

[Dawgreg]

So sad........I hope he recovers and you’ll get to sit beside him very soon

[JonPreston]

Perhaps he needs to think of his own mother, alone and unvisited in a disorienting institution.

I hope you don't believe that Coumo's mother would be subjected to the same rules of common folk.

[combat_boots]

“Spouses and children are forbidden, parents and friends may not enter”

I know a nurse who’s cared for two dying patients (dying of the WuFlu). She was perhaps most upset that their families could not visit, even as they lay dying. She held one man’s hand.

[combat_boots]

Oh, and this was in the South, not New York.

[HangnJudge]

...That includes doctors, nurses and staff.

Well, most of us hospital workers don’t have much social life anyway...