Posted on 11/05/2022 3:33:46 PM PDT by DFG
Gretchen Whitmer, the Democrat governor of Michigan, has attempted to whitewash her policy that put Covid-19 patients in nursing homes. Whitmer was one of several Democrat governors who implemented this plan, as did Pennsylvania’s Tom Wolf and New York’s disgraced former governor Andrew Cuomo. The plan led to higher death rates in states that followed this policy, while Whitmer’s Administration has specifically been accused of covering up deaths.
When asked if she regretted her decision regarding nursing home policy, she blamed her Republican opponent Tudor Dixon for spreading lies. “My opponent continues to tell people that nursing homes were forced to take Covid patients. They were not. They never were,” Whitmer told Fox 2 in Detroit.
Contrary to the governor’s statement, it has been well documented that she had much to do with Covid-19 patients in nursing homes. Even PolitiFact, a left-leaning fact checking site, confirmed as such. According to PolitiFact, “Whitmer issued an executive order on April 15 that required nursing homes with available capacity to create a dedicated unit to isolate residents with COVID-19 and accept COVID-19 patients discharged from hospitals.”
PolitiFact’s article also added that certain nursing homes were to be designated as “regional hubs” and made to take in more infected people who were unable to be properly cared for and isolated from others.
Whitmer’s initial executive order came on April 15, 2020. By the time PolitiFact wrote the above article in March 2021, approximately 15,000 people died with Covid in the state of Michigan. Around one-third of those deaths occurred in nursing homes.
Remarkably, Whitmer’s recent interview is not the only time that she has attempted to deny her culpability for the nursing home policy. In June 2020, she cited CDC guidelines as to why her state had enacted this policy.
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Hope this glossy witch gets sent packing.
They just lie because they know the press will cover for them.
It’s 1984 Ministry of Truth.
You must believe what they say now at this moment.
What happened in the past did not happen. What they said in the past they did not say.
If you point out the truth, you are a threat to democracy.
Where are the “fact checkers” ?
Not a chance.
They are all denying what they did. The absolute worst is Fauci denying everything he did. Politics attracts the very worst lying scoundrels that God ever created.
Or is it a prerequisite to be a dirty rotten lying scoundrel before entering politics?
She sent them to what would better be described as death camps.
Misspelled it.
“Politics attracts the very worst lying scoundrels that God ever created.”
Seems to be true.
These are the kind of things that our candidates need to expose when running against all those guilty of COVID tyranny and are responsible for the death and misery their policies caused. Never let them forget. Never let the voters forget. Just like Kari Lake in Arizona, don’t pull any punches. WWKD: What Would Kari Do?
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Worst part: The patients didn’t have to go back.
In mid March of 2020, Trump had CMS change their regs to allow nursing homes to refuse to take sick CoupFlu patients back if the facilities couldn’t do it properly.
Whitmer, like Cuomo, ordered them sent back.
So why did the facilities knuckle under when the feds allowed them to refuse?
I’m betting the facilities were threatened and/or bribed.
Pity nobody is interested in getting to the bottom of that.
Find out just why the facilities took back the patients would tell us quite a bit about what Deep State was up to.
This is a blatant lie. I know firsthand.
Andrew Cuomo said the same thing. He tried to claim that he was following CDC guidelines, and blamed the nursing homes themselves, but his orders on readmitting residents to nursing homes upon release from the hospital were not in line with CDC guidelines. Even after he issued a revised order, he claimed it wasn’t actually a revision of the original. Snake.
Election 2018 in Michigan was a trial run for 2020 national election crimes.
This is great news — not that Governor Witchen will tell the truth, but that she feels compelled to address the topic.
Up until recently, MSM/ Dims wouldn’t even bother to discuss any problems w/ their Wuhan stunts. Now they’re all trying to get ahead of coming bad news.
From The Washington Examiner (April 16,2020): Gretchen Whitmer's gardening restrictions make no sense
-PJ
Democrats lie. This woman shouldn’t be in office.
Why did Nursing Homes knuckle under? Follow the money.
a major argument against government money in health care is that it is political decisions in health care. Nursing Homes are totally dependent on Social Secufity, Medicare, Medicaid and similar government money.Politicians control the money. Politicians control whether Healthcare Providers meet the license requirements.
This is not unique to 2022. Nurses are licensed and paid different from Doctors for the sole reason the Nurses are seen as women. Doctors are men. That is the licensing structure, even though no longer true. That is a political decision to license like this.
One may support or not, this government control of healthcare providers. But it is an undeniable fact that it exists and govenment/politicians created it.
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