DeSantis: ‘Patients’ bill of rights’ could develop to allow hospital visitation
The governor said denying or restricting visitation in hospitals brought on by the pandemic has had “huge negative consequences.”
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Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday hinted at the potential for a “patients’ bill of rights” to ensure hospital visitations are allowed during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
During a news conference, a reporter asked DeSantis whether he knew of possible legislation in Florida that would prevent people from being blocked from visiting loved ones in hospitals.
“So there’s a couple pieces in the legislature. We obviously have some of our ideas, so what I think you’ll see over the next couple weeks is, I think you’ll see a package develop that’s gonna have protections,” DeSantis said.
“You have people who are in the hospital that didn’t have access to their loved ones. You literally have to have them on Zoom or on FaceTime or something like that. That had huge negative consequences for so many families throughout our country. So I’ve been talking for a long time about needing to do that,” he continued.
What exactly the legislation could or will look like isn’t clear, as the governor said a proposed package hasn’t come together just yet.
In January, AdventHealth began restricting hospital patients to one visitor per day in the Tampa Bay region. This decision came during a rise in hospitalizations among people who had COVID.
Many hospitals in Florida, including the Tampa Bay area, and across the United States have restricted visitors throughout the pandemic to help mitigate the spread of COVID-19. These decisions to restrict visitation have been backed by studies and industry groups that indicate such policies have been crucial to keeping hospital-acquired infections low.
Still, such denial has taken its toll on both patients and families. Some doctors and people have been arguing that these policies deny people the right to be with loved ones at a crucial time.
“Our view is COVID cannot be used as an excuse to deny patients’ basic rights, and one of the rights, I think, of being a patient is that you have your loved ones present when you’re dealing with these serious medical conditions,” DeSantis said.
Here’s a weird fact: All Chinese visitors to America might be spies
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....For those of us who genuinely like and respect Asians, whether those born here or those visiting from China, this is a most unhappy state of affairs. We don’t want Asians to be the victims of mindless prejudice and we hate to see people falsely charged (especially if they’re victims of sloppy and even unethical work by the FBI).
But facts are facts, and here are two:
(1) No Chinese citizen departs that country and comes to America except with the express permission of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
(2) All Chinese citizens are subject to article seven of the Chinese National Intelligence Law (Go ahead; Duck Duck Go it; multiple hits will come right up) by which every Chinese citizen is legally obligated to “support national intelligence work.”
....Moreover, in the event a Chinese citizen is reluctant to cooperate against the American host, you can be sure that CCP operatives know where that person’s spouse, parents, grandparents, and other family members reside in China. The CCP operatives don’t even need to say “Nice family you have in China.” Chinese citizens know that so it goes without saying.
None of this is meant to say that each and every Chinese visitor is a spy. But it is to say that the CCP has the means to press each and every Chinese visitor into espionage.