“Nursing home deaths ...I like your style Massachusetts”
Posted on 04/29/2020 6:36:58 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
...Nurse Miller blamed the spread on staffing problems that have plagued the home for years. Workers were forced to cover shifts in different areas, taking germs with them — and at least one unit was shut with not enough staff to operate it.
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Utah launches program to issue free face masks to residents “Veterans were on top of each other,” she said. “We didn’t know who was positive and who was negative and then they grouped people together and that really exacerbated it even more.
“That’s when it really blew up,” she said.
The home’s superintendent, Bennett Walsh, said earlier this month that state officials knew the home was in “crisis mode” over staffing shortages....
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They were dying anyway.
If this virus was really that dangerous, it would be wiping out the people at these places. It’s not. that tells you all you need to know about how reasonable our economy destroying response is.
We are living in interesting times.
Wow. Based on these thread responses so far - let me jump right in also.
Screw them vets. They deserved to die anyway.
Screw them vets. They deserved to die anyway.
We kill over 250 children every year transporting them to and from school, yet we still transport children to school.
Why is that?
The answer to that question is in the spirit of my answer to why there should be no lockdown. And “you don’t care if people die” is an intellectually bankrupt response.
And along your line of thought.
Over 30,000 Americans die each year in car accidents.
I don’t hear anyone calling on the ban of driving cars - “if it will save just one life”.
Did the MA gov demand positive hospital patients be returned to their facilities over facilities’ objections...?
“Coronavirus kills nearly 70 veterans at Massachusetts elder care facility”
That’s how a lot of states are trying to balance their budgets.
VA nursing home, humm I wonder if they were lost because they didn’t have any government regulations to tell them how to handle the situation and no body wanted to take responsibility because well as usual many government employees say “That is not my job, or responsibility”. FUBAR
The “you don’t care if people die” canard never works for me. Imagine sending men to Omaha beach. Most people are simply not up to it.
When the Empire state building was built, the estimate was that it would cause one worker life per million dollars spent. Oddly, they built it anyway. And it cost around 45 million and cost 40 workers’ lives.
People die. A disease that mostly takes sick people over 80 -and even then, only some of them - should be one of those things like traffic deaths. It’s a bad thing, but we live with it.
So withdraw all those military and national guard doctors, ER nurses and other medical staff from NY and send them to recover those sick Vets in at risk facilities around the country.
Better yet...air lift them to the two hospital shops.
The Vets are most revered citizens...deserve the best.
Mass deaths are more than 50% nursing home patients according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. But I know Mass nursing homes and some are s-holes. Some are high quality expensive assisted living. In those places there are no more deaths than normal despite a high level of infection (15% or more of residents infected). The deaths at the low quality Medicaid warehouses should surprise no one. I don't know much about the VA but it would not surprise me if it's more like Medicaid than real health care.
Your day will come....the Gods have no mercy on arrogant humans.
Your day will come....the Gods have no mercy on arrogant humans.
My friend and his wife both work in the nursing home / assisted care industry. She specializes in dementia patients and he specializes in sales.
They know that people die in these places all the time. Hell, it’s literally where people go to die. This is why “nursing home deaths” mean very little to me with this.
The main reason it means very little, though, is that I’m in the camp that believes CV19 is put down as the cause of death when it really isn’t - A LOT.
Is that seriously your response, or did you forget your /sarc tag?
If not,, come on down to South MS,,,, we’ll discuss it in person.....
There is also a problem with the math.
EVERY nursing home has deaths EVERY month.
The nursing home in Kirkland, WA, that started the COVID-19 panic averaged 10 deaths per month during flu season - before COVID-19 showed up.
The COVID “death toll” is now 45 at that nursing home.
All that means is that every person who died there in the last two months who tested positive, or who displayed flu like symptoms, has been classified as a COVID-19 fatality.
Is that the way they classified influenza deaths in previous years?
Of course not.
“Nursing home deaths ...I like your style Massachusetts”
Horrible. May their families find comfort, somehow.
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