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What was tolerable for a two week tactical lockdown has morphed into catastrophe. My father is in a care facility under Newsom and cannot be reached by family. The number to use for that purpose is never answered. And, of course, visitation is impossible even for hospice cases.
It is inhuman.
Any number of measures could have been taken by now to facilitate family visitation, even if it meant remodeling an area with plexiglass barriers for visitation.
How has the recent court defeat affected Newsom’s orders in this area?
I don’t know. Much has to be sorted out regarding this situation with the lawsuit.
If we can locally get a group of people who are all concerned about the relatives in local care homes, and we choose to storm the Bastille, one facility at a time, maybe something can happen. It is obvious if only two people show up at a care facility and demand entrance, nothing will happen. But if 35 people show up, all at one location, then what?
I know from my experiences that when I was hired to stay with someone at a nursing home, so many residents were just given minimal attention. The staff is overworked and underpaid, with the blame falling on them, but it should really fall on the Administrators.
In addition to low pay etc, right now I imagine a lot of people are abandoning their jobs at these facilities. Who wants to be part of a eugenics situation that focuses on the frail elderly?
Over on brandnewtube.com, David Icke gave his 35 minute show over to a care giver in England, and she talked about what it was like to do nursing in the facility that had hired her after the COVID measures were implemented. She ended up leaving. She simply could not face on a daily basis the overwhelming and senseless toll of death that the residents had been dealt out. It was painful just to hear her describe the hopelessness of the residents, the resulting pneumonias, and the bed sore situation.
Also, I wonder if you can reach out to a County Senior Services group and have one of them as a social worker go to your father’s facility and do a “wellness check.” They should be available for you by calling the local Social Services org, where people go to apply for food stamps. All those workers are working out of their home right now, but they do help with making connections to the right support system and the right people inside that support system.
Or if not a social worker, then the police?
Is there a way to have a physician go in and visit. So you might have to lie, by saying you had heard via the grapevine your elderly relative does have pneumonia and you need to know if it is true.
Also if there is a way to stop paying for the relative’s care, I bet that would get you entrance immediately to come and retrieve them.
I can’t imagine what you are going through with this. I spent much of my younger years wishing my parents had been 12 years younger when they had me. Now I am glad they died before all this horror descended on us.
Also it could be the Pacific Legal Foundation is a group you might want to reach out to. I believe their website is “org” rather than “com”
Perhaps they could remake Cocoon with literal cocoons!
I am remote, living here in Virginia. There is a second wife in the picture and my brother, locally. I will pass these ideas along, thank you.
This is the saddest thing I’ve read in months.
My heart is breaking for all the people who are suffering alone, discouraged, confused. Please please please, whoever wins tonight please stop wasting time and energy on children and college students who will all be fine, and redirect your efforts to getting these people what they need, which is company. Maybe some validation. Maybe some thanks. Possibly some love?
I’m trying to understand why this is Trump’s fault. Some states are still in lockdown, some are open. It was the governors of NY and NJ who sent infected patients back to nursing homes. A large percentage of deaths from the Chinese virus are in four blue states.
Trump had options other than declaring COVID a national emergency(NE). He could have gone about certain bans and certain activities without doing the NE declaration while making it known that he was considering a NE declaration.
Once he made that declaration, he lost the ability to handle anything. Most important matters then fell into the laps of the designated health officials installed at NIH and in other agencies, due to the rules and regulations relating to how NE’s are handled once declared. He then was out of the loop.
Due to the NE reducing the ability of the President to function, we watched as he “suggested” rather than ordered the use of HCQ.
And why hasn’t HCQ been fast tracked into existence? Inside the Civil Code for vaccine mandates is an important clause that reads that only if there is no other method or manner of reducing a pandemic illness can a vaccine for that illness be given a Fed mandate.
Since when does quantity of life always trump quality of life? Isn’t this the same crowd that supports assisted suicide? I think euthanasia is always wrong, period, but I also think that many of the elderly have made their peace with death and are ready to go at the appointed hour. It should be up to them to decide if they are willing to accept the risk of COVID in order to see their grandchildren.
Sisyphus,
Here is the website for the Pacific Legal Foundation that I was talking about earlier:
pacificlegal.org
Thank you.
It’s not Trump’s fault — I love how Cuomo wrote a book about leadership and governing during a pandemic
NY NJ CT MA
I think these are the 4 states responsible for 33% of all ‘covid deaths’ in US
What I don’t understand is why nursing homes haven’t instituted a system in which visitors can wear disposable gowns, gloves, and masks. That’s what hospitals do in maternity wards to protect newborns. The dads are in the delivery rooms even for caesarians. The hospitals give them disposable versions of what the hospital staff is wearing.
I think some of the worst people work in nursing homes.
Just a guess
Oh, yes. I got into it with a nurse at the long-term rehab facility my brother was at. All I wanted to know was if he was still alive, and the nurse started with a surly reproof of me saying I was calling back because I was cut off.
If you don’t have much time to live, do you really want to be sequestered by the state?
Haven’t you lived long enough to determine what risk is acceptable for you?
The exercise of power over patients is a corrupting influence, especially when the patients can make annoying demands and they have relatives who make annoying demands. It certainly would be a corrupting influence on me. (I won’t explain how I know this.) But there are some people who work in these places who are not so easily corrupted. We should treasure those people.