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seeing this thread retweeted

artappraiser — Sun, 03 Jan 2021 19:15:44 +0000

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seeing this thread retweeted reminds me how it seems that rebellion against public health restrictions really does seem to be coming to a boiling point in England, especially given the stress of Brexit, too:

Boris Johnson says restrictions might be about to get tougher.

How?

I can't go to work, see friends or family, go shopping, date, or engage in basically any activity except jogging, what else is this so-called libertarian going to take away?
— Emma Revell (@emmamrevell) January 3, 2021

they really need to get on vaccination pronto.

a reminder that what other countries do affects all of us! Biden getting on this, some worldwide leadership, it is so important. If ever there was a time when an "empire" or "colonialist" attitude was a good thing, this would be it. All the world's leaders need to sit down and watch the movie "Independence Day" or something. It's us vs. the aliens.

We are so screwed. I can't

artappraiser — Sun, 03 Jan 2021 07:05:57 +0000

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We are so screwed. I can't imagine how someone like Fauci can even stand dealing with our societies in the situation we are in:

Important thread to understand the contrast with U.S./U.K. https://t.co/OeMK21XxYJ
— Marcela D Aviles (@mdaviles1) January 3, 2021

It's incredible how this is

artappraiser — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 22:07:33 +0000

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It's incredible how this is being botched. https://t.co/lDSlXpmXBE
— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) January 1, 2021

This Is Why Nursing Homes

artappraiser — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 20:24:53 +0000

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This Is Why Nursing Homes Failed So Badly

The first coronavirus outbreak in the United States happened in a nursing home in February. Since then, it’s only gotten worse.

By E. Tammy Kim, Contributing Opinion Writer @ NYTimes.com Dec. 31, 2020

excerpt is only middle 1/3, is an extensive article, wouldn't classify it as just another op-ed! (starts with a lot of nightmare stories and a gruesome graph)

[....] A few weeks ago, nursing home workers and residents began to receive vaccinations for the coronavirus, but even full immunization will not allay the tragedy that has unfolded in long-term care — not just the deaths, but also the isolation and neglect.

Lori Smetanka, the executive director of the National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care, an advocacy nonprofit, told me stories of nursing home residents who’ve gone weeks without being showered or having their teeth brushed. Residents with dementia have suffered terribly from a lack of human contact, leading to depression and loss of weight, mobility and speech.

Sharon Wallace, 62, whose multiple sclerosis landed her in a Rockland County, N.Y., nursing home several years ago, said that an unattended rash recently turned into an open wound, and she described feeling lonely and trapped in quarantine. “I feel like my health is going downhill,” she told me.

When the pandemic is finally history, we’ll need to deal with all of this: the staffing shortages, low pay and lack of accountability — the many ways we have failed residents, family members and staffers. The awful truth is that long-term care was designed to fail years before Covid-19.

Over the past few decades, the popularity of “aging in place,” combined with new medical technologies and longer life spans, has changed the nature of care for seniors and people with disabilities. Residents of the nation’s 15,400 C.M.S.-certified nursing homes are much older, sicker and poorer than they used to be.

“Nursing homes are really little hospitals, yet they’re not staffed like it. If you asked an I.C.U. nurse to take care of 15 people, she’d laugh at you, but that’s essentially what we have,” Chris Laxton, the executive director of AMDA, the Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine, told me.

At the same time, many of these caregivers “are making $12 or $13 an hour,” Alice Bonner, of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, said. “They can barely support themselves and their families. Some of them are working in nursing homes during the day, then assisted living in the evening and home health at night.”

As a result, workers probably helped spread the virus from facility to facility, home to home. And residents may have done the same. Depending on their condition, it’s not uncommon for a senior or a person with disabilities to go from assisted living to a hospital to a nursing home within a few months’ time.

Early on, when the coronavirus was killing mostly older adults, there was a sense of relief that the young might be spared. Nursing home residents were shut off from ordinary life; they were going to die anyway, commentators implied. And the workers who were getting sick — they weren’t health professionals but glorified babysitters with minimum-wage qualifications. Weren’t illness and death their lot?

A week after the outbreak near Seattle (and months after the first cases in China), C.M.S., run by Seema Verma, whose conflicts of interest outnumber her credentials, began to act. But some of the agency’s decisions merely amplified existing problems.

Under President Trump, C.M.S. had already cut monetary fines for facilities with health and safety violations. Now it called off regular inspections in favor of a narrow, superficial infection-control survey. It also allowed for “temporary nursing assistants” with little training to fill in for certified aides.

When Congress allocated $5 billion under the CARES Act to help struggling long-term care facilities, a dozen companies accused of labor violations and Medicare fraud received more than $300 million in no-strings-attached relief. It wasn’t until late summer that C.M.S. mandated testing for residents and workers.

Nursing home operators have long complained that Medicaid doesn’t pay them enough to provide adequate care, but the business is not, apparently, a bad one to be in. Two-thirds of nursing homes are for-profits, and the sector has been swallowed up by corporate chains and investment firms whose involvement correlates to lower staffing and worse care.

Now the industry is pleading poverty while paying lobbyists to seek protection from lawsuits. In more than half the states, long-term care providers are shielded from liability for Covid-19 claims brought by residents, workers or their families, and legislation that would extend such immunity nationwide is pending.

Proponents of the protections, like Mark Parkinson, [....]

Illegal French New Year’s Eve

artappraiser — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 20:11:40 +0000

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Illegal French New Year’s Eve party that drew 2,500 ends after 36 hours and a failed attempt to shut it down

@ WashingtonPost.com, Jan. 2, 2021 at 8:58 a.m. EST, text at link, here's video on page

TONIGHT: As #COVID19 cases &

artappraiser — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 04:16:37 +0000

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TONIGHT: As #COVID19 cases & deaths explode in L.A. & small businesses crumble under endless restrictions, we were at several massive NYE parties in Malibu, DTLA, & Pomona last night, all broken up by @LASDHQ. Over 900 people detained, 90 arrests, 6 guns recovered. 10pm @FOXLA pic.twitter.com/JM4eXZZebT
— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) January 2, 2021

Joe Biden, 9 hrs. ago:

artappraiser — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 03:26:41 +0000

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Joe Biden, 9 hrs. ago:

Let me be clear: The Biden-Harris Administration will spare no effort to make sure people are getting vaccinated. https://t.co/FfppocXufa
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) January 1, 2021

Friends had a close call for

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 00:34:12 +0000

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Friends had a close call for New Years - everyone got tested except 2 "didnt have time" - fortunately someone put their foot down, said they wouldn't go if someone wasn't tested. The 2 stayed home, got tested the next day, turned out positive. Would've infected a whole party.

A on COVID Living Room Spread

artappraiser — Fri, 01 Jan 2021 23:11:00 +0000

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Sunday:

- Older brother leaves, his cough starts.

- Mom sees her elderly parents in her home, unmasked for dinner and hanging out.

- They are in the same "bubble" and have seen each other regularly in the pandemic.

2/
— Dara Kass, MD (@darakass) December 29, 2020

The devastation caused by the

artappraiser — Fri, 01 Jan 2021 23:10:37 +0000

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The devastation caused by the coronavirus pandemic will continue to affect people with disabilities disproportionately for years, says Antonia Stephens https://t.co/SPjmdkye6R
— The Critic (@TheCriticMag) December 29, 2020