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Posted on 05/24/2020 2:32:03 AM PDT by upchuck
Tomorrow is Memorial Day, when we honor the sacrifice of the men and women who died for our country. Too often we forget the meaning of the day and head off to sales, the beaches, and the backyard barbecues. In those states still locked down, it will be a continuation of the grim economy and spirit-busting effects of overreaching dictators, little based on reason. It will be a particularly hard to celebrate day for the many friends and family members of those killed in nursing homes and assisted living residences due to outrageously misguided gubernatorial dictates.
There still is a lot we don’t know about the transmission and treatment of the virus, though you’d be well advised to skip the hysterical accounts in the fake news and rely on more substantive accounts elsewhere. One thing has been consistently true, though: The elderly have been the most vulnerable to this disease. Reason would suggest, in that case, that instead of focusing enforcement attention on closing parks and beaches and arrests of lone surfers or churchgoers sitting in their closed window cars, attention should be paid to those institutions which house in close quarters the aged and infirm. Apparently, however, Democratic governors live in a post-rational world...
You would think, then, that the contra-rational approach of governors like Andrew Cuomo would draw media attention and criticism. Instead, he is being lionized, probably because the pensmiths hope that he will be the Democratic nominee when the party gives the demented and corrupt Joe Biden the hook.
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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 5.1 million people live in nursing homes or residential care facilities, representing 1.6% of the U.S. population. And yet residents in such facilities account for 42 percent of all deaths from COVID-19, for states that report such statistics.
Alaska, Hawaii, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, and Wyoming do not break out deaths by residential categories. But among the 79,259 U.S. COVID-19 deaths captured by our analysis, 32,930, or 42 percent, were nursing or residential care home residents.
OK, so this is where statistics need to be restated. What is written here tends to come across as horrific at 42%. But if I am comprehending this correctly:
32,940 deaths/5,100,000 nursing home population = 0.00645882352 or .65% of the total nursing home population
I think there’s something wrong with lumping nursing homes together with residential care facilities, since patients in nursing homes tend to require medical care and are thus more vulnerable. The CDC says there are only 1.5 million people in nursing homes nationwide.
Also, when it comes to the nursing home deaths due to coronavirus, any analysis of the numbers needs to separate the states where infected patients were forced into the homes, and states where they were not. I think we would find that probably 15-20% of the entire nursing home populations in these northeastern states died of coronavirus in the past few months. I’ve spoken with a nurse who said it has been horrific, and that many of the older nurses who work there are afraid for their lives.
This was criminally negligent homicide (at least) on a mass scale, we shouldn’t be trying to play games with statistics to pretend that it’s a rounding error.
When I was working in the 2000’s as an MSN trained and certified Nurse Practitioner with a specialty in Geriatric Care and with a PhD in medical microbiology while no longer functioning as a DVM, I did work for a few weeks in a nursing home before I quit. What a shock that experience was!
I found it to be the most disgusting job I ever had had.
The adults living in this nursing home were no more valued than a herd of pigs facing euthanasia. Not only were too few people hired who were trained to clean and KEEP Clean the few Elders who were incontinent, the remaining Elders were unable to clean themselves well because they could no longer physically reach and do such care. Due to short staffing, there was no one to help them. As a consequence problems like minor skin wounds became major painful issues and everywhere these formally “human” people smelled of feces. I won’t even discuss the issue of some Elders pooping as they walked down a carpeted hall. MY GOD and LITTLE fishes!!!
Needless to say there was much more that was uncalled for,unsafe, ugly and smelled of feces and urine.
I won’t go into the distribution of medicines. Medication distribution was a nightmare.
The irony is one doctor was hired to ‘care for’ about 100 people and he had an “outside” practice and showed up rarely and never talked about problems with the board certified or registered nurses who worked the “floor”.
I was furious every day as I finished that day’s work because I realized not one “administrators” had training as a nurse, consequently they had no idea what the RN or CNNs faced daily. I found the MD’s attitude to be remote, uncaring. [Job were so scarce no one would complain because it was too easy to be fired and replaced.)
However, the problems of that nursing home were very much like the problems due to lack of oversight and caring of the “administrator” of a home health agency I also worked for..in that case the “boss” we had was what we peons decided was a sexual relationship with her administrators.
The other problem was that fact that relatives of the Elders has literally no say in what their parents, etc. were complaining about. And because of the smells, etc. they usually quit visiting after a couple of months.
I would testify in court and have thought about writing a book about these and similar experiences as a nurse. In cities and states where human rights are exercised I did not experience anything like I experience in this fairly remote part of Pennsylvania. I do know I will not wait to be ‘Put into a nursing home’ since I live in a remote area but will commit suicide first.
WE MUST DO BETTER for our ELDERS and chronically ill people. We MUST.
1.4 million in nursing homes then. According to the CDC.
2.5% have died nationwide.
For comparison 50,903 deaths due to the flu in 2018 for ages 65+. This burden was higher than any season since the 2009 pandemic and serves as a reminder of how severe seasonal influenza can be. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2017-2018/archive.htm
My MIL is in an assisted living (very nice one) and we have noticed a drastic mental decline since the “lockdown” (are we in a prison?) She has become almost vegetative. She is a very social, active, happy 95 y/o but after sitting in her room, meals being delivered, no visitors, no interaction - she is in LaLa land now.
The treatment of our senior, senior citizens is absolutely shameful. They could allow visitors with strict protocol. But no one wants to foot the bill, or be bothered with the extra work it would involve, or assume any responsibility.
My wife is a nurse, and for a time worked in a long-term care facilities as a nurse. Here are her takeaways:
- The majority of the orderlies simply refused to do their jobs (cleaning beds, washing patients, cleaning up, etc.) The vast majority of the orderlies at the facilities she worked were minorities, and most of them had great contempt for the residents, who were mostly white.
- Because of the problem above, nurses had to do the jobs that orderlies were supposed to do, leaving the nurses overwhelmed. As you know, only nurses and doctors could dispense medication, and most nurses had between 25 - 30 residents per unit, meaning that the care of the patients suffered greatly.
- The facility managers hid in their offices and barricaded themselves into "meetings" rather than deal with the situation around them. The managers also refused to discipline and reprimand the orderlies, who were not doing their jobs.
- Because of nursing shortages, the facilities recruited Filipinos nurses and nurses from other developing countries, who were basically treated like indentured servants
The governors of the states who forced elderly Chinese Communist Coronavirus (I REFUSE to call it (COVID 19!) positive patients into nursing homes MUST be charged with murder!
Those elderly are a big drain on state budgets. It would be a shame if anything happened to them.
I am a little amused that so many are “outraged” that nursing homes suck.
Too many people mindlessly put their elders in homes and just abandon them there.
The quality scores for nursing homes are public and no one reads them.
And decently administered nursing facility would have taken obvious steps to create barriers between COVID floors and clean floors.
What Cuomo did was stupid. But, if you have a loved on in a nursing facility and you did not know what was going on—shame on you.
Thank you so much for speaking up!
DIL had just finished her clinical’s for nursing school, she said the nursing homes were disgusting and her fellow students vicious toward uncooperative patients. Which is why most nursing homes keep patients DOPED with the Little Red Pill.
It was a real turn off for her, she finished out the semester and will go to children/babies next.
If you love you parents get them out of nursing homes, they are Medicare con places to boot.
It would be very interesting to know how many of the patients from nursing homes who have died from coronavirus had been regularly sedated while they were in the nursing home. Since coronavirus affects the lungs, people who are in a sedated situation begin with diminished lung function in addition to all their other health problems.
Yes. they should be.
But that lowers the numbers even more equating out that the lockdown of nursing homes is even unnecessary to protect the elderly. Precautions...yes. Lock down and depression of the elderly...no.
Why would they be sedated?
Have you spent much time at a SNF?
While isolation can do what you describe, I would have a look at her medications. Has anything changed? Even a "mild" sedative can be rough on a person in her 90's.
I have a neighbor I run errands for, she's reached Medicare age. She says overnight the fee for 20 minutes with her GP has gone up from $20 cash (her pocket) to over $100 (charged to Medicare). Same experience, and no serious medical issues, just GERD, occasional sinus flareups and some arthritis. She's on no permanent medication. Basically they cuff her, weigh her, and release her back into the wild.
Sounds like Medicare con to me.
It was not outrageously misguided decisions, it was acallously made decision to save money in New Yorks state controlled senior care centers by killing off the seniors.
Death panels are real, and in NYC, staffed by one man.
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