re: WSJ just out with a new story on cuomo. Aides altered a public report on nursing homes

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How about a fricking hospital, isolated from non infected patients, you idiot?

fricking nursing homes are simply not equipped or staffed to handle people with infectious diseases. You know where they send their patients who have infectious diseases? The damn hospital.

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So your solution for positives at a time we were worried about hospitals being overrun is to put them in hospitals? Brilliant.

Not every positive case requires hospitalization. The fundamental functions of hospitals revolve around treatment, not as quarantine space. The argument for ships as serving this purpose is justifiable, but LTC facilities are a more feasible alternative.

A lot has been made about the access to normal preventative and acute medical care for non-Covid patients. It’s contradictory to suggest hospitals as the go-to for placement for all positives versus LTC, as it further hampers that access. SNFs in particular have the system for infectious disease care and it’s something LTC deals with every year with norovirus, flu, C diff, etc.The prevalence of positive cases, and what to do with them, would overwhelm any system. If all positives were hospitalized as you suggest, you’d have a problem with how that was handled too I’m sure. Cuomo, any decision maker really, is damned if they do, damned if they don’t.

Simply offering an alternative perspective here. There are far too many clueless people positing uninformed and flawed shoulda couldas in hindsight, myself included. We simply weren’t, aren’t, and won’t be prepared as a healthcare system to respond to an event of this magnitude. The methods for reducing transmission are there, with masks, vaccine, and adaptive normal daily life, but our population is too ignorant and too selfish to contribute to the highest potential for effectiveness. You’re entitled to disagree, this is collaborative, but I see your view as just as flawed as you see mine.

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You will notice he is studiously avoiding addressing the elephant in the room.

There’s an easy obvious answer.

If the true death toll as a result of nursing home infections was known, it would have highlighted the issues with Cuomo’s mandate of nursing homes taking Covid positive patients. That mandate was further damaging by not even allowing nursing homes to require a coronavirus test result before admitting the patient to their facility, meaning some patients were admitted to NHs without the facility even being aware they were positive.

Moreover, during the early days of the pandemic, many facilities didn’t have the necessary PPE to adequately care for the positive patients they knew they had. Lack of PPE wasn’t a valid reason to deny admittance.

It was a giant cluster of policy and stupidly.

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I don’t know what to tell you

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This is all you should have said. Nothing else in that long arse response was worth the time it took you to type it.

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So your solution for positives at a time we were worried about hospitals being overrun is to put them in hospitals? Brilliant

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You just outed yourself as knowing nothing about the situation you're "teaching" us all about. There was a navy hospital ship brought to New York for this purpose. It wasn't used. There were temporary hospitals built in New York City for this purpose. More than one. They essentially went unused. So yeah, it would have been a brilliant idea to send positive testing patients to hospitals instead of directing other facilities that they COULD NOT test patients and COULD NOT refuse positive testing patients.

You're not very bright, and it appears if you have any real experience it hasn't taught you shite.

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Literally, this a-hole Cuomo was uncritically allowed to do victory laps over his great covid behavior - only to find out he is worse than anything Trump was every accused of.

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Chicken...you need to investigate who stole Big Scrub TX's ID.

One crime that he could be hit with is fraud because his state received all the cash from the government because of their high death rates. He should be in jail