Cuz science.
The guy is a total psychopath. Seriously, And everyone that carried his water and celebrated him for the last year has the same blood on their hands he does.
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Let me see... Placing COVID positive patients with COVID negative people who are highly susceptible to infection from the virus..... Cuomo really is that stupid or just that big of a psychopathic murderer... I'm going with the later as he was trying to make Trump look bad....
We've spent the last ******* year being told that we have to avoid every other human being in existence because of the danger of Covid, particularly the danger that we might pass it to some geezer or someone with a geezer in the family. NOW we're supposed to believe Cuomo could put people who quite definitely had Covid in a closed environment with a bunch of geezers, and it's not really that dangerous?
Could someone explain to me why, then, the entire world is social-distancing and wearing face diapers?
1. The covid patients Cuomo sent back to the nursing homes were no longer contagious, according to the CDC.
2. The nursing homes had the option of refusing to take the patients back, if they lacked the resources to care for them.
3. The nursing homes are, by law, supposed to have isolation units for infectious diseases, with negative air pressure systems (when the doors open - air rushes in, not out).
4. LTC patients, do not do well in general hospital settings. Hospitals are poorly equipped to deal with eldercare or memory care. LTC facilities which specialize in such care have both the resources and the staff to ensure proper care for the elderly.
Personally, if I had a family member in LTC, I would have gotten them the **** outta that home the moment we saw the nursing homes getting hit. One of my friends went to court to get her former MIL out of a home that already had cases. Ultimately, 74 people died in that nursing home. Her former MIL is now living happily with my friend, and their family. They all seem to be quarantining together. When this ends and we get back to living and working again, my friend will not be able to continue to care for her MIL. She travels extensively in her work - and is often out of the country for a month or more at a time, but until that happens, they will continue to care for her.
My DIL is a nurse at a "for profit" nursing care facility in the city where they live. They had cupboards full of PPE here. There were never shortages of PPE in Canada. At her home, the staff were told NOT to wear masks, or PPE, so not as to "frighten" the patients. And yes, there was a major outbreak at this home.
Yes, social distance and mask wearing works. It worked here, last spring, and combined with our post-Christmas lockdown, it's working again with our second wave: Our schools would have re-opened yesterday, if not for the Snow Day!!!
On an unrelated note, I am saddened and appalled that children and teachers are now required to attend e-learning classes on Snow Days. Snow Days spent at the hill behind the local high school football field with my friends toboganning, making snowmen, snow angels, snow forts, and having snowball fights, and then going home and my Mom making us hot chocolate, are some of the best childhood memories I have. Forcing children indoors to sit at a computer during a snow day is wrong on every level. I applaud those parents who played hooky from eclasses and built a snow fort in the front yard, took their kids ice fishing, tobogganing, or made a snowman.