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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]If the major cause of spread and fatalities have been identified, what makes more sense? Shut society down and send out unemployment checks to millions? Or use a fraction of those funds to provide long term care facilities with proper PPE and rapid tests to quickly identify and contain new outbreaks?

I'm not trying to sacrifice Grandma, I'm saying maybe we should focus on the door to Grandma's house and not Grandma's entire state to protect her. [/quote]

Yes, I've been saying this over and over!  (And I help care for two elderly parents.)  Social distancing does next to nothing to actually help the elderly.

In fact I'd sharpen it to:

I'm saying maybe we should focus on [b]directing resources to[/b] the door to Grandma's house and [b]not diverting resources to[/b] Grandma's entire state to protect her.

If even a fraction of the $$$ spent on stimulus checks and unemployment had been used for training, PPE, testing and hazard pay for nursing/ elderly care workers, (plus delivery services reserved for the medically vulnerable) [b]that [/b]would have actually reduced deaths.[/quote]

Most things that go to grandma's door are because grandma or someone is private paying.  Most of the nursing homes struggling are medicaid beds and they are choosing not to buy what they need justifying it as medicaid doesn't pay well, when they do.  We used to hear that all the time and we knew the pay rate and would call them out when they'd say it as they refused to show us what they billed to medicaid.  Lots of medicaid fraud.[/quote]

But as everyone says,  this whole pandemic points to our need for universal healthcare, right? People: it's just the opposite. What PP describes is what happens when healthcare is reliant on government.[/quote]

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