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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]A good number of those who died were nursing home patients. A lock down is not going to prevent that unless those giving care are not allowed in.
Gov. DeSantis took action that other governors should have taken. He knew who the vulnerable were and targeted prevention toward that population.

Just so you know... I am part of the vulnerable population. I am not being terribly inconvenienced. I believe this nation needs to open.
I will continue to take precautions to protect myself... staying home more than normal, wearing a mask, washing my hands, and keeping my hands away from my face.
There are ways to open our nation with minimal risk. Time to do that.

Your first sentence minimizes them - oh they were nursing home patients. So of course they were going to die.

And if people die, they die - that seems to be your overall attitude.

Or let's try this.

Dems - would you accept a death toll of 100k and a return to relative prosperity by October if it meant four more years of Trump?

Republicans - would you accept a death toll of 300k by October and Trump losing 1980 style if it meant we could open up Swedish style and turn unemployment from 20% to 10-11%?[/quote]

DP here.
You respond to PP like making everyone stay home is helping those in the nursing homes.  It is not.  That's the problem.  Sounds like Florida uses a different approach.  Is Dr. Northam doing anything like that?  Makes sense to me to attack the problem where it is.
Cuomo sent more Covid patients to the nursing homes.

Fix the nursing homes.  Help there.  Let the rest of us get back to normalcy.

For me, I'd start by opening the windows in the nursing homes and wheeling patients outside, if possible for a while every day.  Close quarters seems to be part of the problem.[/quote]

Thank you for trying to adopt a strategy other than the Ivan Drago solution ("if he dies, he dies") and sounding annoyed that all those old people need to be protected and damnit, I wanna live my real life and those at-risk people are keeping me from it.

Cuomo was wrong - at a minimum we could've had a set of COVID nursing homes - and I guarantee you if he is named VP or replacing Biden his behavior is going to get scrutinized. And like I said in a previous post, I want my powerful people to have protected American lives.

Might need to give caretakers a raise and adjust their schedules radically, as well, and ensure constant (like 2-3x a day) temperature taking and once/twice a week tests.

IIRC part of the problem are folks who work 15 hours a week at Nursing Home A and 20 at Nursing Home B. [/quote]

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