JP Morgan: "Lockdowns don't work"
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@LuFins-Dad said in JP Morgan: "Lockdowns don't work":
@Improviso said in JP Morgan: "Lockdowns don't work":
33,000 from Nursing Homes?! Damn, we better shut down Chuck E. Cheese!
Good thing S&W Cafeteria went out of business, huh?
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Over the years I've gone into a lot of nursing homes to give out gifts to the residents. In my experience, the majority of them are awful places, with poorly trained and uncaring staff, sorry assed administrators, poor care, etc. The families of a lit of the residents are just as bad.. dumping off grandma and never coming back to visit, just dividing up her stuff among themselves and leaving her there alone to die.
A lot of nursing home residents are just heartbroken, lonely old people who can't take up for themselves and know that no one gives a shit about them.
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@Larry said in JP Morgan: "Lockdowns don't work":
Over the years I've gone into a lot of nursing homes to give out gifts to the residents. In my experience, the majority of them are awful places, with poorly trained and uncaring staff, sorry assed administrators, poor care, etc. The families of a lit of the residents are just as bad.. dumping off grandma and never coming back to visit, just dividing up her stuff among themselves and leaving her there alone to die.
A lot of nursing home residents are just heartbroken, lonely old people who can't take up for themselves and know that no one gives a shit about them.
Joe R. Lansdale wrote about that. His novel had a ridiculous premise but he worked in such a facility. That part of it was very true to form.
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@Improviso said in JP Morgan: "Lockdowns don't work":
@Loki said in JP Morgan: "Lockdowns don't work":
I read somewhere that2/3 of coronavirus deaths in Pennsylvania are in nursing homes.
Minnesota says, "Hold my Beer".
Statewide, the respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus has killed more than 600 Minnesotans at nursing homes and assisted-living facilities. That is a staggering 81% of the deaths from the pandemic statewide. No other state in the nation that reports such data has such a high percentage of deaths in long-term care, according to an analysis by a Texas-based nonprofit. Nationwide, outbreaks in long-term care facilities have claimed 33,000 lives — more than a third of all deaths nationwide, according to the Associated Press.
I keep this sort of data in mind when I read about all the lives that could have been saved if we'd socially distanced a couple weeks earlier.
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@Larry said in JP Morgan: "Lockdowns don't work":
Over the years I've gone into a lot of nursing homes to give out gifts to the residents. In my experience, the majority of them are awful places, with poorly trained and uncaring staff, sorry assed administrators, poor care, etc. The families of a lit of the residents are just as bad.. dumping off grandma and never coming back to visit, just dividing up her stuff among themselves and leaving her there alone to die.
A lot of nursing home residents are just heartbroken, lonely old people who can't take up for themselves and know that no one gives a shit about them.
Yes, and it is a national shame.
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The economics of caring for the elderly like we all think, in the detached abstract, they should be cared for, would be crippling. If the kids aren't taking the parents in and caring for them personally then it's not realistic to expect that it will get done at an acceptable level.
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It is partly cultural. It does not seem like in the US, it is normal to have multi generations living together.
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