Percent of Covid deaths who
were in nursing homes
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The
numbers are sickening and impossible to ignore. Throughout the United States
the Coronavirus “pandemic” looks more and more like a war on the elderly and
sick than a mysterious new virus that was so dangerous and unknown that the
entire country (with notable exceptions – South Dakota for example) had to be
completely locked down tighter than Guantanamo Bay.
Nationwide, 42 percent
of the Covid-19 death toll was comprised of Americans who were confined to
live-in care facilities. While at first it was easy to simply gasp at a disease
so cruel that it seemed to target older people, now that the smoke has cleared it is becoming painfully –
and criminally – obvious that the virus had some very powerful human enablers.
New York Governor Andrew
Cuomo, who has shamelessly used the coronavirus crisis to puff up his national
political profile, ordered the elderly hospitalized with Covid back to
their nursing homes where they could spread the virus like so many Typhoid
Marys. Amid calls for a Federal probe into
Cuomo’s callous and deadly decision to rip elderly patients from their hospital
beds and send them back to cramped senior facilities, Cuomo demurs, blaming…you
guessed it: Trump!
In Pennsylvania a
particularly cruel (and unelected) creature, Rachel Levine, in charge
of the state’s Covid policy oversaw a virus outbreak that claimed the elderly
in care facilities as 70 percent of the entire state’s death toll. Astonishing!
A real genocide of the old. Of course before she ordered those elderly hospitalized
with Covid back to their care facilities to infect and kill others she moved her own mother out of
the facilities and into a hotel.
Under the Mussolini of Michigan, the
Covid-ravaged elderly were also returned to their care facilities where they
could infect and kill their housemates. Governor Gretchen Whitmer seemed to
actually gain pleasure from destroying untold lives with her strict lockdown
orders, stooping so low as to strip a 77 year old barber of his license for
daring to open his shop against her will as he faced starvation. She loved
pushing around working people, who were nearly immune to the virus. But when it
came to actually protecting the vulnerable layers of society, she was AWOL.
These shameful policies were followed in many states and while at
first when little was known about the outbreak, there might be some room for
acceptable error. But as it became clear the demographics of who were most
vulnerable, it has become indefensible to focus all resources on shutting down
restaurants, bars, churches, mom and pop shops, schools while ignoring that the
virus preyed almost exclusively on the old and sick. Yes, shut down elementary
schools where virtually no one fell victim, but throw open the doors to the old
folks home where the virus raged like a tsunami. Brilliant move.
Coincidence?
We should not discount the possibility that sheer government incompetence is
responsible for this massive failure and resulting senior killing fields. Maybe
there is more to it. The sanctity of life in the United States has been
degraded for years, including via a foreign policy that considers half a
million dead Iraqi children “worth it” to undermine Saddam Hussein’s rule. A
foreign policy that doesn’t blink when an estimated 40,000 Venezuelan civilians
die from US sanctions. A foreign policy that has spent the past nine years
arming literal Islamist terrorists to overthrow the secular rule of Syria’s
Assad with hundreds of thousands dead in the process and nary a notice in the
US mainstream media.
When one embraces the idea that it’s OK to kill millions
overseas to maintain a US global empire that only enriches the Beltway
military-industrial-Congressional-media-think tank complex, it is not a far
leap to embrace the idea that seniors are expendable. When some lives are not
considered worth saving – from pre-cradle to grave – it is a slippery slope to
view others also not worth saving.
Daniel
McAdams is the Executive Director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and
Prosperity.
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