From Frontline to Breadline: How Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Policies Have Created Financial Havoc for Nursing Home Workers

Governor Andrew Cuomo’s nursing home mandate, which helped to cause the deaths of thousands of patients, is just the tip of the iceberg. The residual effects from the governor’s onetime decision to force nursing homes to accept virus-positive patients will soon form an avalanche of problems too insurmountable to overcome.

As usual though, it’s the mainstream media -- both left and right -- that gets to pick winners and losers when it comes to any unfolding story. This is a shame. Not only do the media often push misinformation about crucial issues, they are obsessed with theoretical outcomes and not actual causes. This is why they are prone to jumping to illogical conclusions about critical situations.

“Nursing homes” these days are called skilled nursing and rehabilitation centers: they are no longer places for the elderly alone. Gone are the days when a single licensed practical nurse managed a unit and would send senior residents out to the hospital if their temperature spiked above 100 degrees. In New York City for instance, these facilities serve as permanent homes for those in need of regular dialysis treatments, amputees, the mentally unstable, people who suffer chronic complications from HIV/AIDS, high risk diabetics, those who are on permanent life support because of near fatal accidents, hospice patients , and in some cases, homeless people.

One of the largest populations of patients however, are those who need post-surgery rehabilitative care. This is where many live for about four weeks after say, a knee replacement. So, LPNs, however experienced, can no longer run the show. It’s impractical and illegal. The skilled nursing and rehabilitation center is a place of diverse employment. Hands-on physical therapists, respiratory therapists, dialysis technicians, medical transporters, licensed dieticians, psychiatric nurses, phlebotomists, EKG techs, and in-house physicians,

This report is a jumble.

The author may be well informed enough to write a couple of good separate reports from their knowledge and experience. With this one report you can’t see the forest for the weeds.

For everyone else, especially Red Staters, I suggest this: prepare more aggressively for an imminent Great Migration from pandemic-ravaged blue cities like New York.

Just more of the same. This process has been going on for years.

Economic refugees from the socialist heckholes of NY, Cal and Il have been fleeing to the low tax states for years.

Unfortunately, socialist are too dumb to recognize the source of the high taxes and strangling regulations that forced them to flee their home states.

As a result, they bring their pestilence thought processes with them and vote accordingly.

So, I have to agree with the author in this.

If you love your economic freedom; are conservative and religiously minded; don’t need a basket of government programs to exist and don’t want hordes of clueless immigrants, wholly ignorant of the U.S. Constitution or academic lefties overrunning your neighborhoods, then start networking now. I’m gonna say it: become a community organizer in some way, shape, or form. And do it right quick

We need to get busy reeducating these refugees when we find them. Our lives depend upon it.

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