Give me liberty and give you death (<b>BARF!</b>

The Hill (MSN) ^ | 12/20/21 | Andrew Koppelman

[Impala64ssa]

You can rarely be sure that judicial incompetence will kill people, but Federal District Judge Terry Doughty crossed that line when he issued an injunction blocking the Biden administration's requirement that nursing home personnel be vaccinated for COVID-19.

(The injunction, which the administration is appealing, has since been modified by a higher court to apply only in the 14 states that sued.) This week, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch produced something worse than incompetence. A recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that nursing home patients are far more likely to die of COVID if there are many unvaccinated staff. Among residents in low-vaccination facilities, death rates were nearly three times those of facilities with the highest levels of staff vaccination. The study concluded that, during the two-month period studied, "if all the nursing homes in our sample had been in the highest quartile of staff vaccination coverage (82.7% on average), 4775 cases among residents (29% of the total during the study window), 7501 cases among staff (29% of the total), and 703 Covid-19-related deaths among residents (48% of the total) could possibly have been prevented." The New York Times reports that some nursing homes were moving slowly on getting their staff vaccinated, waiting for the federal mandate (perhaps because they could then tell staff not to blame management for the requirement).

Judge Doughty, a Trump appointee, relied heavily on the written declaration of Dr. Peter McCullough, who was fired from the Baylor University Medical Center for spreading misinformation about COVID. Baylor has since obtained a temporary restraining order against McCullough, citing "the likelihood of irreparable business and reputational harm" if he kept lying that he was still affiliated with the hospital.

[Impala64ssa]

Not ONE nursing home patient died from any of those COVID patients Killing Fields Cuomo dumped into the nursing facilities.
FTA: "He is, in short, a crank. I was able to learn all this in a two-minute Google search."
Google is good
Google is our friend
In Google we trust.
Amazing how the same authoritarian figures who demand we get vaxxed and mask up 40 years ago were law students and poli sci majors who drove battered, rusted out Volvos and VW Beetles held together with QUESTION AUTHORITY bumper stickers.

[Eagles6]

Don't forget that "Tommie The Commie" Wolf did the same thing in PA.

Early on, over 60% of supposed covid deaths were in LTCFs.

Also was done in NJ, MI,CA and probably others.

[Chad C. Mulligan]

Double high-trajectory projectile barf!

How stupid do they think we are?

[Carriage Hill]

The left loves death more than we love life.

[kiryandil]

Andrew Koppelman, John Paul Stevens Professor of Law at Northwestern University, is the author of "Burning Down the House: How Libertarian Philosophy Was Corrupted by Delusion and Greed" (St. Martin's Press, forthcoming).

Losertarian, of course.