Posted on 05/05/2020 9:52:31 AM PDT by shortstop
Andrew Cuomo’s policy of barring visitors in nursing homes and hospitals is inhumane and illogical.
It inflicts cruel and unusual punishment upon people who have done nothing other than have the misfortune to live under his tyrannical rule.
He has imposed suffering of the cruelest nature upon residents, patients and families, and it is an indictment of the health care industry that it has not challenged him on behalf of the people it supposedly serves.
In mid-March, Andrew Cuomo placed a ban on all visitors to nursing homes. Unfortunately, he simultaneously approved the transfer of covid-positive patients to nursing homes and allowed covid-positive employees to continue to provide care.
Families can’t enter nursing homes because they might bring the virus, but the state of New York sent the virus there. No screening of employees or vendors, and no admittance for families.
It made no sense.
And it doomed scores to lonely unattended deaths.
As it continues to do, and as a similar visitor ban at hospitals dooms families in health crisis to separation and pain.
Parents send children to surgery and hospitalization, alone. Husbands with cancer disappear into fortress-like hospitals, their wives and children weeping at the door, unable to follow, unable to comfort, unable to share.
Because Andrew Cuomo said so.
Because he wants it that way.
And it is wrong. Morally wrong. Incomprehensibly cruel. Completely unnecessary.
Because if employees can go in and out of a hospital or nursing home, so can family members.
Period.
It’s that simple.
If it is possible to use infection control, testing and screening to move doctors and nurses, cooks and janitors, in and out of health-care facilities, then those same steps can allow spouses and children to do the same.
And it is a hateful, arrogant thoughtlessness that asserts otherwise.
To believe that a doctor or lab tech or CNA is more important to an elderly person or hospital patient than a loving relative is preposterous.
Further, the notion that some institution or non-judicial exercise of governmental power could separate members of a family from one another is not only un-American, it is inhuman. The winning of an election or the conferral of a medical degree does not give one power superior to the God-given bonds of love and family.
Loved ones standing in parking lots holding up signs are a testament to their purity and the governor’s evil.
Because, again, this is unnecessary.
Vendors make daily deliveries to hospitals and nursing homes. Ladies come in to tend the plants. Custodial staff comes in to mop the floors and clean the bathrooms. Clerks come in to update reports and file records. Any number of people wearing scrubs punch in and out around the clock. CNAs work their shifts like regular.
But clergy cannot visit to administer sacred rites or to pray or to offer counsel.
Spouses and children are forbidden, parents and friends may not enter. Patients and residents are condemned to small, solitary, suffering existences, pent up in little rooms suffering from the isolation, too often dying alone.
Yes, we know this is true of covid patients. But they are less than one percent of the people hospitalized or dying in America. We are wrong to ignore the needless suffering imposed on all the elderly and ill, regardless of their diagnosis.
And the governor is wrong to make it continue.
And he is dishonest when he seeks to avoid responsibility for it.
He is Andrew the Virus King, and he is all powerful. It is his dictate that has closed the nursing home and hospital doors, and only he can open them.
Perhaps he needs to bring back the imagery of his mother, the Matilda for whom all this is theoretically being done. Perhaps he needs to think of his own mother, alone and unvisited in a disorienting institution. Maybe he could stand in the parking lot and wave.
Or maybe he could stop this torture.
There are masks aplenty – he has mandated surpluses extending three months into the future – and unused testing capabilities – his parking-lot nose swabbings sit mostly empty. If protocols and procedures can be developed for patients’ caregivers, they can be developed for patients’ spouses.
If the janitor can get in your child’s room, so can you.
And it is a sin that the health care community doesn’t demand it, and the governor doesn’t allow it.
I believe this rule of no visitors in hospitals and nursing homes in quite widespread, not just NY.
This has been the rule in Nebraska for weeks now.
I hate it in hospital. Especially if critically ill.
Nursing home a little more understandable but needs to be worked around.
A prelude for the government being able to take anyone they want, stick them in a home, and keep everyone away until they pass away.
I had a cousin go to the hospital in a Texas city and his daughter couldn’t go in with him......in the ER as well as his stay for very serious tests.....it’s here too.
Also an issue in Prisons
Hugh out break in two penitentiaries in TN,
brought in by worker or visitor
Although “no visitor” rules have been unkind,
more unkind is the wildfire outbreaks in very fragile populations
A neighbor lady had a stroke 6 weeks ago, and her husband hasn;t been able to see her once! Not even in the ambulance!
My husband went in to hospital on 4/13, was in ICU most of 2 weeks, then moved to a rehab place. No visitors this entire time, but the hospital was going to let me sit with him if/while he passed away. They would hold phone up to him, so we could talk to him, while he was in ICU.
We have been lucky to visit him at the window in the rehab place.
We have the same awful rules in California for Nursing Homes and hospitalized patients.
Patients in Nursing homes can’t have visitors even visitors living in the same NH. A friend died recently from the side effects of severe Parkinson’s. The last time he saw his wife, adult children and 20 something age wise grandkids was 13 March. The next day this bs started.
Another elderly woman moved from the east coast to be with her daughter. She developed pneumonia the first week of March,and was treated at a local hospital and sent to the same nursing home above about 10 March to regain her strength. She has not seen her daughter since the bs started. Her daughter decided to visit her mother regardless. The RN on duty told her to leave or be arrested.
Another friend had to have emergency gall bladder surgery/removal. About 10 days ago. His wife took him to the emergency room and was told to leave him in the car in the parking lot. As she registered him in a tent. She could only go into a small contained room with a couple of seats and bathroom. She did not see him for 5 days. Neither of them had the virus. Only 1 member of his family after a temp scan could be in that small room. Finally, they decided to go home at night. On the 5th day, post op, they released her husband. They reversed the procedure and wheeled him out to her vehicle parked outside the ER. They loaded him into their vehicle, and she drove home.
She and her family got apologies several times from the staff about the isolation. They said that they were following orders.
If you truly want to limit COVID 19 in hospitals and nursing homes, then QUARANTINE THEM.
No one enters in. No one enters out.
That includes doctors, nurses and staff.
Why don’t we just shoot them? Shooting them would stop it wouldn’t it? I mean, why stop at just locking up healthcare workers and patients, just shoot them and get it over with. This virus is worth it, shoot all sick people NOW! Save us all!
/drippy-drippy-insulting-sarcasm
Just take the time and think about this point for a moment. A terrible, terrible thing to do to someone. We can take precautions.
Matthew 25:35-40
"For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you made me welcome, lacking clothes and you clothed me, sick and you visited me, in prison and you came to see me." Then the upright will say to him in reply, "Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? When did we see you a stranger and make you welcome, lacking clothes and clothe you? When did we find you sick or in prison and go to see you?" And the King will answer, "In truth I tell you, in so far as you did this to one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did it to me."
Kim Jong Un; Is that you?
So sad........I hope he recovers and you’ll get to sit beside him very soon
I hope you don't believe that Coumo's mother would be subjected to the same rules of common folk.
“Spouses and children are forbidden, parents and friends may not enter”
I know a nurse who’s cared for two dying patients (dying of the WuFlu). She was perhaps most upset that their families could not visit, even as they lay dying. She held one man’s hand.
Oh, and this was in the South, not New York.
...That includes doctors, nurses and staff.
Well, most of us hospital workers don’t have much social life anyway...
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