Are Seniors Expendable?

    Deaths of patients in New York nursing homes have now exceeded 5,000.  Are these people expendable?  New York governor, Andrew Cuomo thinks these people are just an unnecessary expense.

        Cuomo ordered nursing homes to accept patients infected with the Wuhan virus, even though most medical experts state that the elderly are most likely to die from the virus.  Cuomo does not care. 

        Nursing home management pleaded that people infected with the virus not be sent to the nursing homes, because they did not have the equipment to treat patients, or the facilities to properly quarantine the sick, or adequate protective apparel for their staff.

        There were other places for people infected with the Wuhan virus to go.  Hospitals had empty beds.  Only 100 of 400 beds in the special hospital built by the Army Corps of Engineers were ever used.  The Navy’s hospital ship, the USNS Comfort, was hardly utilized.  

        Sending people infected with the Wuhan virus to nursing homes and infecting seniors was careless, reckless, and even criminal.  Somebody should be charged with homicide for this decision. 

        One of the fears of government provided health care is that treatment will be withheld from seniors who the government considers to be no longer productive to society.  Is this a realistic concern? 

        There seems to be a common denominator for the state governors who have handled the pandemic badly.  Anyone care to guess what that is? 

        There was even talk that Governor Cuomo should be the Democratic nominee for President.  Crazy idea, but it might have been promoted by his brother’s voice on CNN.

        In the last decade, a lot of things have happened in our great country that I would have said could never happen in the home of the free. 

God bless President Trump and guide him to make America great again.

Trump did not bring division.  Division brought Trump. 

If you don’t see that, then you’re part of the problem.

Ava Armstrong.       

       

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