You are assigning intent where there was simply incompetence.
Most of the nursing facilities where this stuff happened did not follow their emergency pandemic plans. In fact, in many cases those plans were sitting on shelf in a back room—where no administrator even knew they existed.
These places are run by administrators who are, mostly, idiots and accountants who only care about keeping the Medicaid money flowing.
In most cases, the nursing staff was screaming from the rooftops about the incompetence.
It is easy to blame to politicians. For most of the deaths in the first month or so, the blame should be placed at the feet of the administrators.
Did you know that every one of these facilities is REQUIRED to maintain an emergency store of 28 days worth of PPE. This in addition to the normal warehouse stores. MOST hospitals and nursing facilities “dip” into these during the “declared” influenza emergency every year. Their accountants are fine with this because it happens every year, the emergency allows them to do it, and they can “re-fill” the emergency stores after the end of the first quarter.
Except this year, they couldn’t get the product after February.
The hospitals were negligent. The administrators were negligent. The Nursing home administrators were criminally negligent.
I used to spend many hours a week updating those emergency response plans for a decent sized hospital. I left last year. Our Emergency Manager left last year. I met up with them around Valentines Day and we had a dark chuckle about how much stock they had eaten into...and what was left was probably expired.
Our chuckles were right on target. And sadly so.
It was a directive by the Governors. It was intentional, and the result was expected.
You do not send a child to day care if that child has Chicken Pox. Unless you want every child there to get infected. Same with a flu that was deemed to be as deadly as this was. Well, thank God this Chinese bug wasn’t as bad, but all flus are deadly to the elderly, ALL FLUS! And they know that.
It is common sense, and they knew very well what they were doing.
I know Democrats, and especially today’s totalitarian minded Communist Democrats, who do everything with a calculation as to how it will politically benefit them.
So go ahead and attribute good intentions to them. You do so at your own peril.
Every Democrat in this country should be locked up in jail for violating every citizens constitutional rights.
No, I do not trust any Democrat.