Quick Thought - can't we just assume that ALL long term care facilities are outbreak centers - Granite Grok

Quick Thought – can’t we just assume that ALL long term care facilities are outbreak centers

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TMEW, who generally doesn’t get political at all, had one of her few outbreaks herself on the news that there has been “two new outbreaks at Hackett Hill Center and Mountain Ridge Center” (Manchester and Franklin). She exclaimed

WHY does it seem they are rolling out these announcement every couple of days; they’re ALL infected and should be treated as such. Why keep dragging this out?

She’s right, of course. We’ve been told that the vulnerable community, over 60 and with underlying medical conditions, are most at risk, so where are they living? Of course, nursing homes where those medical conditions can be treated best as possible – and making them a COVID-19 Flu target just like they are during any regular flu outbreak. Anyone with a few functional brain cells should have recognized that occurrence quite some time ago. But news organizations just keep rolling out the new announcements – WMUR especially seems to be breathless every time a new one makes their news.

Sorry, with this happening all over the country, this isn’t much news at all as it is now to be expected. What WILL be news is how the staff and the State (since it declared the emergency) is going to wind up legally (we American, unfortunately, being a most litiginous people).  Sununu et al will wind up fine because of the unconstitutional precept of “qualified indemnity” – which pretty much means that if you are a “public servant”, you enjoy a level of protection the rest of us don’t have and have an automatic “stay out of jail free” card.

So, the nursing homes will bear the brunt of the suits. So, what owner of such a facility is going to want to continue to own such a facility knowing they’ll probably get their financial butts handed to them after a jury swallows the story “THEY KILLED GRAMMY!”? Or a staff member’s family with “Make them pay now for the PPE they didn’t pay for earlier!)? The result will be less facilities and we’ll go back to the time when the offspring (and their families) tend to their own instead of outsourcing that responsibility to others (a theme running throughout the US First World behaviors).

But my point is, enough with making this a headliner because it isn’t any more – just tack on a coupla / few of words into an existing sentence to note this new fact and be done with it. Making it a splash isn’t journalism – it’s just glorifying a horrible tragedy for friends and families.

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