I love how the blame is always on the government, it's never those in charge of the organization/business that is at fault.
We can't protect people in our care unless the Governor tells us too!
Here in Wisconsin,
it is the fault of the government!
Robin Vos (R) Rochester (the Speaker of our State Assembly) and Scott Fitzgerald (R) Podunkville (the Wisconsin State Senate
Leader) are public health enemies #1 and #2. They convened the state legislature at the request of Governor Tony Evers (D). After 30 seconds, they banged the gavel and told everybody to go home. That was the first time our state legislature met in six months. Vos is running for re-election. Fitzgerald is running for the US House of Representatives and will probably win in his gerrymandered Congressional district.
By intentionally doing nothing during this pandemic because of political reasons,
they are killing people. The former peak was May 27th with 22 deaths. On July 11, it was 4 deaths. On September 3oth, we had 26 deaths and on October 13th we had 33 deaths. The current death total is 1,588.
The state Republicans have spent over $2M fighting the various public health measures that Gov Evers has tried to put in place. They claim to be fighting for our freedom(s), but I believe that they are fighting to kill off people like Joseph Stalin did in the Soviet Union. They could defend their position(s) and inaction, but neither one is speaking to the state media these days.
Their negligence is resulting in an extended and enlarging pandemic in this state. The Republican Party was founded in Wisconsin. I believe that it will begin to
die here too. That is a shame, because the two party system has worked pretty well most of the time. The last ten years or so, it has become dysfunctional because extremists on both sides want it that way. I have not figured out how to become an extremist of the middle, but we need to get some of these do nothing politicians out of office! That is why we have elections. (BTW: I would not be surprised if the Republicans split into two parties. Call them the McCains and the Trumps for the lack of better terms at this time. There may be some re-alignment of the Democrats and pickups from some of the third parties before it is over.)
I can look out for myself and my family. There is a limit to what I as an employee and citizen can do. So far, 8.2 million people, 2.5% of the US population, has had a case of COVID-19, with 220K dead.
How much is enough?
The people in the nursing homes can't look out for themselves or they would not be there. The owners want to minimize spending to maximize the profits that they make. Greed overcomes common sense, but my guess is that most owners aren't making that much money off of our government for their sometimes indigent residents. The elderly are also the most likely to die from COVID-19. Maybe we will get some nursing home reform, but I am not holding my breath over that one happening in my life time. See do nothing politicians above.
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