COVID-19 Pandemic (Coronavirus)

Dr. Acula

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That's some fukked up, foul ass shyt right there. Tell ya girls mom to make some phone calls to those patients families and blow the whistle.

Those bed bound patients tho

For real.

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Going to look into if there is a whistleblower hotline with the state tomorrow. Will avoid giving more details incase this actually blows up into something major and serious. But, I live in TN, and so I'm less than optimistic something will be done about it.
 

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Going to look into if there is a whistleblower hotline with the state tomorrow. Will avoid giving more details incase this actually blows up into something major and serious. But, I live in TN, and so I'm less than optimistic something will be done about it.

Nursing homes are a hotbed for bullshyt in the best of times. A disproportionate number of deaths come from these nursing homes but that's not a sexy story. They are sitting ducks and the virus cuts through them like butter. Puts the workers (many low wage and minority) at risk too due to so much virus in the confined space. Nursing homes have needed the hammer dropped on them decades ago, if the Coronavirus doesn't get shyt moving nothing will.
 

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Nursing homes are a hotbed for bullshyt in the best of times. A disproportionate number of deaths come from these nursing homes but that's not a sexy story. They are sitting ducks and the virus cuts through them like butter. Puts the workers (many low wage and minority) at risk too due to so much virus in the confined space. Nursing homes have needed the hammer dropped on them decades ago, if the Coronavirus doesn't get shyt moving nothing will.
Isn’t it something like 40% of all US deaths are nursing homes? Everyday folk see shyt like that and are ready to get back to their lives

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...a-87a3-22d324235636_story.html?outputType=amp

81% of Canada’s deaths are nursing homes. Your average 30 year old sees stuff like that and rightfully wonders why shyts still shut down when the curve was flattened
 

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Isn’t it something like 40% of all US deaths are nursing homes? Everyday folk see shyt like that and are ready to get back to their lives
U have to understand the mentality of Americans. When a person is in an nursing home there expected to die, Americans cast off their relatives even though most are still mentally/physically functioning to this end. Look at societies around the world, the elderly in Japan only go to rest homes if their mentally and physically gone but the rest live with their families until death.
 

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Racism has been evident in the domestic reaction to coronavirus, too, as seen in widely shared images juxtaposing police officers calmly handing out masks to white people sitting in a public park, while violently arresting black and Latinx people in other parts of the city. “What types of populations, identities, and phenotypes are deemed safe enough to be entitled to their liberation or not, for the purpose, ostensibly of social safety?” asked Tsai.

Racial bias also played a negative role in how basic health measures like wearing a mask were perceived early on. Americans “have always viewed the face masks as something that others do, that nonwhite people do and nonwhite countries do,” said Bridges.

The spread of coronavirus in the U.S. has deeply hurt black, Indigenous, and Latinx communities, highlighting endemic racism in health care, the labor market, income, housing, and more. The danger that the virus itself will be racialized poses a direct threat to those communities and everyone else in the country, Bridges said. “My fear is that if people come to associate Covid-19 with nonwhite death, if it comes to be associated with black people’s deaths, any will that the U.S. had to competently and humanely manage the pandemic will just be lost.”
 
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