It seems the story about the Nursing Home in NY I posted about yesterday continues to get more macabre:
The first coronavirus patients admitted to a Queens nursing home under a controversial state mandate arrived along with some grim accessories — a supply of body bags, The Post has learned.
An executive at the facility — which was previously free of the deadly disease — said the bags were in the shipment of personal protective equipment received the same day the home was forced to begin treating two people discharged from hospitals with COVID-19.
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Within days, three of the bags were filled with the first of 30 residents who would die there after Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Health Department handed down its March 25 directive that bars nursing homes from refusing to admit “medically stable” coronavirus patients, the exec said
Coronavirus patients admitted to Queens nursing home — with body bags
And all of the sudden I am having this feeling that people of authority in NYC are playing Operation T4? Or at least they are playing hot potato and spreading the virus even more around the city in a sick game of Misery Loves Company.
I’m just cynical enough to think it jibes with Ezekiel (Rahm’s brother) Emanuel’s idea that anyone over 75 should be killed off.
https://www.hudson.org/research/10721-dr-ezekiel-emanuel-to-me-and-others-don-t-live-past-75-
I wouldn’t put it past Cuomo to order that on purpose knowing too damn well what would happen.
I’d like to see him prosecuted for negligent homicide, but I know the odds of that are too close to zero to matter.
Hmmm…
Nursing homes must admit Corona-Wuhan patients.
Nursing homes sent body bags.
USS Comfort not allowed to accept nursing home patients not with Corona-Chan, nor the Javits Center, by order of Herr Bloomberg and Generallisimo Cuomo.
And both of those braindead dorks have publicly stated that old people need to be sent to the happy hunting grounds or denied treatments.
Hmmmm… Nah…. hmmmm…. nah…… hmmmmmmmm.
The Left worships death. Cuomo is no exception.
If this kind of shit doesn’t get these politicians out of office at the very least, or in jail (which is probably what they deserve) then I see no other option left to the American people to correct this besides force. If people like Coumo get away with this they’ll certainly do this again in 5-10 years with the next China virus or other pandemic. And folks need to keep in mind that this is how they treat us when We The People can’t be directly blamed for the cause of the crisis.
Alternate theory: they’re just considered part of the supplies, included along with masks and gloves and isopropyl alcohol. If they hadn’t been included, would the same journalists be decrying the lack of proper supplies sent to the nursing homes?
Well, I have been an RN since 1979, The Plaintiff was a DON at a nursing home, and TDW-Mark II was a CENA in nursing homes for 20 years. Surprisingly enough, from time to time residents in any nursing home, anywhere, will die. Therefore (a) the staff is adept at handling post mortem care, as well as (b) they have the requisite supplies to handle the usual percentage of deaths among their patients.
Therefore, in my opinion, there ought to be no need for supplemental body bags unless the sender anticipated “excess mortality”, for some reason.
In short, I respect Rob Crawford’s effort to see non pathology driven rationale for this thing, but I sin’t buying it.
*shrug*
Believe what you want.
Still, Rob, I need to give you proper credit (with no sarcasm): you have presented a plausible alternate explanation. You have been thinking outside the box that I, at least, frequently place myself within.
Thanks. I’m not trying to start fights, I’m just worried about the bad patterns of reasoning and argument I’m seeing pop up on the right lately.
A very close example to this was the left shrieking about the number of body bags sent to Kuwait before OIF — they acted as if that number of casualties were expected. No, body bags are cheap, bought and shipped in bulk, and are one of those things you’d rather have and not need than need and not have. Same applies here; likely there are some on hand. But the marginal cost to add them to the supplies is low, so why not?
We only just last week got the requirement for nursing homes in CT to report cases. Previously they didn’t have to say anything unless your family member was infected. So shocker we find out the nursing home my grandfather is in has 11 current cases and 3 deaths as of the weekend.
I am fortunate enough to still be young enough to have most of my life to take this as a lesson and do everything I can to make sure at home care is option 1 when I’m old.
Interestingly my interpretation of this is not that they are sending body bags as necessary supplies with patients but that by openely doing so they are tacitly admitting that they expect high mortality in nursing homes because unless you are personally shelling out thousands per month they are generally perpetually understaffed and overworked and management pinches every penny; a place where a good high level of care is difficult to maintain even even when things are going right. Essentially it is an acknowledgement of what we all know, care suffers in many cheap and affordable homes making a normally bad but ignored situation even worse now.
Where my grandmother is $8k a month out of pocket no reposted cases and very good care and clean. Where my grandfather is minimum out of pocket expense ~$1k a month and double rooms for everyone the whole place smells like piss staffing issues before this all started and the cases reported above.