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Tuesday, May 05, 2020

Blood on their hands

Andrew Cuomo, Phil Murphy, and Gavin Newsom.

All politicians whose states mandated that nursing homes had to admit patients recovering from the coronavirus.

I can't fault politicians in general for getting things wrong. There were a lot of unknowns. But some facts were clear.

When the virus was still in China, it was known for being especially harmful to the elderly and infirm. And the first outbreak in America was in a nursing home in Washington.

So while no one knew for sure how to respond, the number two most important item on any governor's list, after "How do we stop the virus from overwhelming the health care system?", should have been "How do we keep the virus out of our nursing homes?"

Some ideas that could have been implemented would be screenings for nursing home employees, making sure nursing homes had PPE, and the like.

By the time politicians were shutting things down, it was well understood that the virus was communicable for an unusually long period of time. So the logical thought is, people who recover from the virus need to be quarantined for the safety of others.

They set up emergency field hospitals, but didn't create protocols for people who would need skilled nursing care after recovery. Maybe, I don't know, these field hospitals could have been employed?

So not only did these governors not plan to keep their elderly citizen safe, they made a deliberate policy choice that harmed them.

This decision is a consequence of the far left living in a world of fantasy. To them, thoughts and feelings are real, and decisions should only be made by people with multiple degrees and the right social background. People seeing things on the ground can be safely ignored.

The proclamations from these states show the danger of leftist policies. What's most important is how people feel. They don't want patients to feel discriminated against because of their viral status. And they want their elite peers to know that. Any number of deaths is okay in pursuit of their woke goals.

Andrew Cuomo, Phil Murphy, and Gavin Newsom have blood on their hands.


Aside:

A conspiracy theorist might point out that each nursing home patient who dies is potentially less of a burden on the state's Medicaid budget and pensions.