Coronavirus (political)

[SunnySide]

Re the nursing home issue ...

Where should we have put these elderly after they get out of the hospital/go over covid?

Id assume they were in nursing homes bc family was not around or couldnt care for them to begin with.

Leave them out in the street?

Keep them in the hospitals that needed beds?

What should have happened to them?

[MTK]

Originally Posted by SunnySide

Re the nursing home issue ...

Where should we have put these elderly after they get out of the hospital/go over covid?

Id assume they were in nursing homes bc family was not around or couldnt care for them to begin with.

Leave them out in the street?

Keep them in the hospitals that needed beds?

What should have happened to them?

Good question. It's just a sad reality especially here in the US. We don't do enough for our seniors and they often get the short end of the stick... and the virus especially gave zero F's about them.

[JackLord]

Originally Posted by SunnySide

Re the nursing home issue ...

Where should we have put these elderly after they get out of the hospital/go over covid?

Id assume they were in nursing homes bc family was not around or couldnt care for them to begin with.

Leave them out in the street?

Keep them in the hospitals that needed beds?

What should have happened to them?

Short answer: Anywhere but where they were put.

Long answer:

I would have begun by utilizing the 1000 bed hospital ship that was there and largely ignored. Then I would squelched my ego and asked for as many more as the government would send.

From there, I would have looked into military installations, both active and decommissioned. Move the young GIs into heated tents and move the elderly into the barracks. And a few portable generators would have got the old places up and running.

If that was not enough, I would looked at armories, dormitories, and anywhere else I could comfortably situate those old folks.

And just to be clear, I had no political axe to grind with Andrew Cuomo. I was a great admirer of his father and even interned in his office. We all got whomped by this and have largely stumbled around. But moving those people back into nursing homes was insane.

[Chico23231]

Originally Posted by JackLord

Short answer: Anywhere but where they were put.

Long answer:

I would have begun by utilizing the 1000 bed hospital ship that was there and largely ignored. Then I would squelched my ego and asked for as many more as the government would send.

From there, I would have looked into military installations, both active and decommissioned. Move the young GIs into heated tents and move the elderly into the barracks. And a few portable generators would have got the old places up and running.

If that was not enough, I would looked at armories, dormitories, and anywhere else I could comfortably situate those old folks.

And just to be clear, I had no political axe to grind with Andrew Cuomo. I was a great admirer of his father and even interned in his office. We all got whomped by this and have largely stumbled around. But moving those people back into nursing homes was insane.

Just let them continue to post messages to rationalize clearly insane policies which was recklessly applied even as the cdc and who stated older people were most at risk from illness and death

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6912e2.htm

On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic (2). Data from China have indicated that older adults, particularly those with serious underlying health conditions, are at higher risk for severe COVID-19–associated illness and death than are younger persons (3). Although the majority of reported COVID-19 cases in China were mild (81%), approximately 80% of deaths occurred among adults aged ≥60 years; only one (0.1%) death occurred in a person aged ≤19 years