I suspected the COVID victims at Kirkland Life Care Center were Asians infected by their family and friends. I also suspected the staff. I wondered why it took so long to test the staff, after weeks of new infections. Confusion inside the nursing home and among state health officials over who was responsible for testing sick patients allowed the disease to continue spreading, turning Life Care into the nation’s largest source of COVID-19 fatalities. When testing was done, of the 120 residents at Life Care, more than 81 tested positive.
By March 13, tests on the staff recorded 47 positive for COVID, 24 testing negative with the remaining 133 pending. The nursing home didn’t obtain enough supplies to test all residents until March 7, and it took another week to test most employees. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that limited access to testing, as well as staff working at multiple facilities while sick and a lack of protective equipment, contributed to the disease’s spread at Life Care. Did Inslee step up to the plate? No. He dragged his feet and dropped the ball.
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I wondered why it took so long to test the staff, after weeks of new infections.
The "tests" were not available to anyone other than politicians and celebrities that early in the “pandemic”. Second, the "tests" being used were never intended to be more than one diagnostic tool to be used by professionals. Somewhere in the abject nonsense over the past year the roles of various diagnostic tools have been turned on their head. The public now has a completely backassword view of their role in diagnostic procedures.
Did Inslee step up to the plate? No. He dragged his feet and dropped the ball.
I am certainly no fan of Governor Dimsley, but he had absolutely zero to do with the situation at the Life Care Center in Kirkland. Your expectation of his ability to have any meaningful impact in the fight against this highly contagious pathogen is unrealistic and just plain silly. Dimsley is a draft dodging third rate lawyer whose most valuable attribute is his ability to call attention to himself. What an embarrassment to this state! Nearly everything Dimsley he has done responding to the “pandemic” has been costly and detrimental to the well being of the citizens of this state. Do you think that he would have been a help to me as the incident commander at the scene of a hazmat incident as well? No soup for you!
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I appreciate that you and just about everyone else have had their heads filled with nonsense over the past year by the media, politicians, and the big tech filtering of information. But please try to start using your common sense just a little and refrain from parroting the just mentioned sources of “information”. From the perspective of someone who actually had training and responded to many incidents involving both chemical and biological hazards... it has been like pounding my head against a wall for over a year now...