by | May 16, 2020 · 8:45 am

New York’s Nursing Home Fiasco

I’m so angry about this, I can hardly see straight.

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We’ve known from the start of the pandemic that nursing homes and long-term care facilities housed the most at-risk demographic in the most at-risk environment. I.e., people who are old and/or suffering from co-morbid conditions that make the virus especially deadly, who live indoors where the virus is much more contagious, and who share staff in close quarters where social distancing is impossible.

Yet on March 25, the “progressive, caring” Democrats who run Deep Blue New York decided that these facilities HAD to accept COVID-19 positive patients. If they refused, they would lose their state funding.

Call me cynical, but I have zero … ZERO … trouble believing that the motivation behind this evil regulation was to reduce the number of expensive old people who are too gaga to vote Democrat. I even have two pieces of solid evidence.

One: A virus-free nursing home in Queens was forced to take 2 infected patients. These individuals arrived with boxes of PPEs … and a box of 5 body bags! Within days, they had dead bodies to put in the bags. Each week thereafter, another box of 5 body bags arrived. They didn’t order them, but they did end up needing them, since more than 30 of their residents caught the virus and died.

Two: The Cobble Hill Health Center in Queens did not have the ability to quarantine patients. But because they actually cared about protecting their residents, they begged to be allowed to send suspected virus patients to the Javits Convention Center or the US Naval hospital ship Comfort. They were told no. Those facilities were only for hospitals to send their overflow COVID patients.

At the time the facility sent its plea, only 134 of the 1,000 beds at the Javits Center and 62 of the 1,000 beds on the U.S.N.S. Comfort were in use. (The Comfort only treated 179 patients in total before Cuomo said it was no longer needed.) Meanwhile, people were dropping like flies at Cobble Hill.

Only AFTER Gov. Cuomo suffered significant political blow-back for this vicious policy was it rescinded. As of May 11, facilities may refuse to accept patients who are not virus-free.

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New York State has the highest number of COVID-19 nursing home deaths in the country. Yet nobody knows the true death toll, because sometime after “caring Democrats” imposed these “let’s kill useless eaters” regulations, they ALSO changed the way they were counting nursing home coronavirus deaths. They excluded anyone who had contracted the virus in a long-term care facility, but then actually died in a hospital!

New York is the only state to do this, YET IT STILL HAS THE HIGHEST NURSING HOME DEATH TOLL.

The next Catholic who gives me that crap about being “personally opposed” to abortion, but voting Democrat because “Republicans only care about unborn lives” is gonna get a copy of this blog folded up until it’s really pointy and shoved where the sun don’t shine.

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