Allen53 wrote:
Hepl Me Out wrote:
Can someone explain this to me.
1. Nursing Homes (NHs) are chronically understaffed. They care for the disabled, demented, vegetative, incontinent, forgotten, abandoned people on a shoestring budget. Out NORMAL treatment of our elderly leaves a lot to be desired.
2. In a massive crisis, someone is somehow supposed to clone an entire system, creating one that has been contaminated and one that will somehow remain uncontaminated. This will require doubling the physical buildings, doubling the staff, doubling the equipment, doubling everything with little guarantee that the "clean" facility will remain so especially since Trump etc effed up PPE etc.
Explain to me how anyone could possibly accomplish this?
Any individual elderly person of sound mind and financial means should absolutely check out and isolate voluntarily.
Any family that can accommodate their relative at home should absolutely do so.
Many (perhaps most) cannot. No money, no family, family doesnt care, etc
Its easy to criticize. Its tougher to acknowledge the reality.
Don't you think it comes down to a nation's priorities in the end? Here in the US we spend $1.3 Trillion/yr on the military and yet social services across the board are starved.
Really C19 was not and has never been the problem. The issue that is being exposed are the dire conditions of the medical establishments in the US and throughout most of Europe. Spain, for example, is the perfect model for how to destroy a medical system in a single decade- austerity measures did that. Same for NY State with Cuomo in particular being heinous on hospital closures. Both mainstream parties are hideous when it comes to helping out with social services but good when it comes to handing out $$$ for Wall Street.
Agree with at least some of that.
If the govt is at fault here in the Nursing Home calamity, its due to lack of long term preparation. Not what it did or didn't do since March. The long term failure is on ALL of us, not just the govt.
WE set our seniors up for failure. WE ALL assumed or hoped this moment wasn't ever coming. Trying to put the blame on Gov so-and-so is insane, there is no way to clone NHs overnight. People fail to understand how debilitated and in need of care many of these people are. They are in a NH because that is the ONLY place they can get that care. Spoon-feeding, dialysis, diapers, 24/7 monitoring of Alzheimers patients etc etc. And they barely get it unless they are wealthy.
Sure, just "send them somewhere else".