COVI-PASS will determine whether you can go to a restaurant, if you need a medical test, or are due for a talking-to by authorities in a post-COVID world. Consent is voluntary, but enforcement will be compulsory.
The old slippery slope. What possibly could go wrong? Bill Gates has his dream come true.
A British cybersecurity company, in partnership with several tech firms, is rolling out the COVI-PASS in 15 countries across the world; a “digital health passport” that will contain your COVID-19 test history and other “relevant health information.” According to the company website, the passport’s objective is “to safely return to work” and resume “social interactions” by providing authorities with “up-to-date and authenticated health information.”
15 countries, including Italy, Portugal, France, Panama, India, the US, Canada, Sweden, Spain, South Africa, Mexico, United Arab Emirates and The Netherlands, the company reports. From Healthcare in Europe
Papers Please – Done in 2009
These objectives mirror those that Bill Gates has been promoting since the start of the COVID-19 lockdown. In an essay written by Gates in April, the software geek-cum-philanthropist lays out his support for the draconian measures taken in response to the virus and, like an old-timey mob boss, suggests the solutions to this deliberately imposed problem.
Ironically, Gates begins to make his case for the adoption of mass tracking and surveillance technology in the U.S. by saying that “For now, the United States can follow Germany’s example”; He then touts the advantages of the “voluntary adoption of digital tools” so we can “remember where [we] have been” and can “choose to share it with whoever comes to interview you about your contacts.”
I now know what living was like for Robinson Crusoe….no, not shipwrecked nor floundered on some shoals. But a victim of cruel circumstances.
After decades of toil I retired. An over 55 retirement community became my destination. Lovely grounds right out of a story book. Activities that would put a cruise ship to shame. Extensive dining room options. Farm to table. What could be better?
That is where the good part of the saga ends.
See, this over 55 retirement community comes complete with what is called “continuing care” “home care” “assisted living” – and what is known as a “nursing home.”
Thus all the mandates government imposed on “nursing homes” fell upon the entire community as well as the management wanting to keep us “safe” they say.
I can be charitable and say what is being done is in our best interest. If not I can say it is a cruel measure being perpetuated upon the voiceless.
The “shelter in place” notion is no less harmful than the virus itself. Essentially everyone is locked down. Socializing? Nope. The cruise has ended. We are no more than inmates. Meals being delivered with a knock on the door by a faceless person with a mask and wearing purple gloves that makes them unrecognizable. They drop the package of food – our meals on the floor. Because you see, there can be no human contact.They scamper away long before one can get to the door.
The bus trips for “excursions” to faraway places have long ended. The bus shuttles that run several times a a week into town to get whatever we need has ended as well. Remember, this is for our own good. We are not to visit our fellow humans. No outsiders are allowed in. We are not allowed out. No family members. No one who isn’t required to keep us alive. If what we are doing is living.
I have exhausted Amazon Prime and Netflix movies. At least the ones I am interested in. I am a lucky one. I have binged. I am able to amuse myself. At least to a point.
I am one of the lucky ones. I like to think I still have my faculties. I have a car and able to drive. I can escape.
Spiritual care called.They asked if I had talked to anyone. They could set up face time. That was nice. Did I need anything? Nope.
I didn’t watch the COVID hearing last week. I wondered if it was a sign of depression. They warned us about that. Perhaps because it would be pouring salt in my wound.This COVID thing. They might discuss nursing homes and the need for additional draconian measures to keep us safe.
Perhaps a sign of my potential xenophobia… When I saw Trump at the latest presser attacked because he suggested the “reporter” (some kid there to hassle him) she ask China for the answer to her question. (She was Asian don’t you know) I thought yes… I could resent this China thing. Big time.
But I digress from my point. The designated nursing home.
Killing with kindness…
Those whose husband or wife who now lives in our designated nursing home but their loved one still has a cottage or apartment cannot visit their partner in the nursing home. Those who live in the designated nursing home are essentially not permitted outside of their room. No communal meals.
Thus little physical activity or mental stimulation. None of the group activities that give meaning to daily living. Loneliness that is a proven killer.
In a study of elderly Americans who moved to a nursing home for their final months or years of life, 65 percent died there within one year, according to an investigation by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco.
“One quarter of all deaths in the United States occur in nursing homes, and that figure is expected to rise to 40 percent by the year 2020,” says Smith.Smith describes the average and median length of stay before death as “surprisingly brief.”
The average age of participants when they moved to a nursing home was about 83. The average length of stay before death was 13.7 months, while the median was five months. Fifty-three percent of nursing home residents in the study died within six months.
Men died after a median stay of three months, while women died after a median stay of eight months. Married participants died a median four months sooner than those who were unmarried.
The implication, he says, is that “we need to engage nursing home residents in planning conversations about end-of-life care and treatment preferences very soon after they are admitted. We have only a brief amount of time to address their concerns before they become seriously ill.”
I can assure you that isolating these poor souls for the months they have remaining on this mortal coil is not in their game plan.
Robinson Crusoe by William Defoe:
“I cannot explain, by any possible energy of words, what a strange longing or hankering of desires I felt in my sould….O that there had been but one or two; nay, or but one soul sav’d out of this ship, to have escap’d to me, and to have convers’d with! In all the time of my solitary life, I never felt so earnest, so strong a desire after the society of my fellow-creatures, or so deep a regret at the want of it.”
This is what the swamp looks like on the inside looking out.
Fox’s Janice Dean who lost both her mother-in-law and father-in-law in a nursing home to the virus:
Translation: ‘Not my fault even though I approved the order that recovering corona virus patients could go back into nursing and assisted living homes. And then it spread like wildfire to the most vulnerable people that we are supposed to be protecting…’”
Cuomo on nursing home deaths:
“Older people, vulnerable people are going to die…That’s going to happen despite whatever you do” pic.twitter.com/KKgb0uIrzz
Pennsylvania’s Governor Wolf and his Secretary of Health Dr. Rachael Levine forced nursing homes to accept COVID-19 patients. No fool is Rachael. She moved her mother who is in a nursing home into a hotel. Rachael knew how this bad movie was going to end. She only has to look north and east to her partners in crime in New York and New Jersey who implemented the same perverse policies.
But Wolf and Levine are not done yet. In order to deflect from their own stupidity they will have you outraged about the care the nursing homes offered. Even though the homes begged that they not have to take these patients. Add fuel to this fire is that many of these same nursing homes are the dumping ground of society. Medicaid patients. The financial reimbursement rate from the State has not come close to covering the actual costs of their care.The homes knew that they were not possibly equipped to care for these patients.
On March 18, Pennsylvania Health Sec. Rachel Levine ordered all nursing homes in the state to take COVID-19 patients.
On March 29, Levine moved her mother out of a personal care home.
Nursing home deaths account for more than two-thirds of the state’s death toll. … into several nursing homes amid a coronavirus outbreak that has killed 2,600.
Let’s meet the mastermind behind this:
Meet the Transgender Doctor Leading Pennsylvania’s COVID-19 Response
Rachel Levine
Rachel Levine discusses role model status.
Last week’s solution for the nursing homes?
PA says no PPE for hospitals doing elective procedures.
HARRISBURG — The state has told hospitals it will not provide them with masks, gloves and other protective equipment if they choose to resume elective surgeries, as the priority shifts to nursing homes, where most of Pennsylvania’s COVID-19 deaths have occurred.
Secretary Rachel Levine said at a state Senate hearing Monday. “In the past, that has gone to hospitals. And we will give out to hospitals when necessary now, but the focus … is on long-term care living facilities.”
Levine said Monday that, while the state will still assist hospitals in hard-hit areas like Philadelphia, those that resume elective procedures will be cut off from the department’s stockpile.
On March 20, Levine ordered hospitals to cancel or postpone elective procedures… These procedures include heart catheterizations, joint replacements and colonoscopies.
I can vouch that the list of stopped procedures doesn’t even come close. All testing unless the patient was on death’s door was stopped. Cancer screening, eye exams. I could go on but you got the drift. These decisions will ultimately bankrupt many hospitals as well. On to government taking over healthcare and people will wonder how it happened.
What do the citizens say about all of this nonsense?
The rally Monday was organized by state Sen. Doug Mastriano, who says Dr. Rachel Levine hasn’t properly protected the state’s vulnerable older population.
Protesters call for Pennsylvania health secretary to step down
Yesterday I posted my experience of what life was like these days in a Pennsylvania retirement community in American Thinker. Wander over for a day in the life of living under the draconian rule of the democrats after they seeded these communities with COVID.
Because this is an over 55 retirement community, it comes complete with what is called continuing care, home care, assisted living, and what is known as a nursing home. All the mandates the government imposed on nursing homes fell upon the entire community as well as the retirement management wanting to keep us “safe,” they say.
I can be charitable and say what is being done is in our best interest. If not, I can say it is a cruel measure being perpetrated upon the voiceless.
First they hire the “tracers.” Then they find you and someone tests positive in the home. Only one bathroom in the house and you have COVID? Quarantine has taken on an ominous new development. There are special places for you:
“We also realize that as we find more contacts, some of the people we find are going to have trouble being isolated,” said Levin. “For instance, if they live in a home where there is only one bathroom and there are three or four other people living there, and those people don’t have COVID infection, we’re not going to be able to keep the person in that home.
Every person who we’re isolating, for instance, needs to have their own bathroom. And so we’ll be moving people like this into other kinds of housing that we have available.”
Another Facebook user responded, “they can try — they will have a fight on their hands.”
They are backing down some but the alternative options are on the table. That “they” think they could propose such a thing says it all.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot: We Will Cite You, Arrest You, and Jail You for Violating Stay-at-Home Orders.
Where is the outrage? There are any number of examples. I find this Lightfoot gal one of the most egregious… maybe look at her Chicago crime rate first before she takes her strident position.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is threatening to permanently close churches and synagogues that do not comply with his order to stop gathering during the coronavirus outbreak.
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio threatens to permanently shut down churches, synagogues if they don't comply with gov't order https://t.co/WJ3jBUFoWl
“The NYPD, Fire Department, Buildings Department, and everyone has been instructed that if they see worship services going on, they will go to the officials of that congregation, they’ll inform them they need to stop the services and disperse,” de Blasio explained.
“If that does not happen, they will take additional action up to the point of fines and potentially closing the building permanently,” de Blasio continued. “You’ve been warned, you need to stop services, help people practice their faith in different ways, but not in groups, not in gatherings that could endanger people.”
ROME — Pope Francis urged obedience to state lockdown measures Tuesday, just 36 hours after Italian bishops reproached the government for refusing to allow public worship.
“At this time, as indications emerge for a way out of quarantine, we pray that the Lord will grant us the grace of prudence and obedience to these indications, so that the pandemic does not return,” the pontiff said in a daily tweet.
The ratings of more than 2,600 hospitals across the country focusing entirely on errors, accidents, injuries and infections just came out for 2020. The chances of whether you will come out of your hospital experience with your life or are injured.
The new spring 2020 ratings released by the nonprofit Leapfrog Group released a new round of safety grades.
Search by Zip, City and State. After you chose the hospital click on full score and check out infections rates, problems with past surgeries, etc. including past years’s ratings.
Hospital Errors Causes 160,00 Deaths in U.S. each year it is estimated …
So while the the politicians and media report non stop COVID-19 deaths, the truly worrisome and avoidable deaths and injuries are not being addressed as they should.
Leapfrog assigns A,B,C,D and F letter grades to general acute-care hospitals in the United States. Leapfrog explains that the safety grade includes 28 measures that are taken together to “produce a single letter grade representing a hospital’s overall performance in keeping patients safe from preventable harm and medical errors.”
The group uses performance measures from a variety of sources, including the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the Leapfrog Hospital Survey and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
It’s worth noting the metrics used to determine this spring’s hospital grades originated from safety data reported for periods ending in 2018 and 2019. The report does not take into account the strain the new coronavirus outbreak is placing on some hospitals where staff are experiencing shortages of drugs and protection equipment.
For last year’s round of rankings, the Leapfrog Group’s research found that patients at hospitals that receive “D” or “F” grades face a 92 percent greater risk of avoidable death compared to “A” hospitals. At “C” and “B” hospitals, patients on average face an 88 percent and a 35 percent greater risk respectively.
The Leapfrog Group recently released its spring 2020 Hospital Safety Grades, assessing more than 2,600 U.S. hospitals on how well a facility prevents medical errors and other harm to patients. (Shutterstock)
The group estimates that if the risk at all hospitals was equivalent to what it is at “A” hospitals, 50,000 lives would have been saved. Overall, the researchers estimate that 160,000 lives are lost every year due to avoidable medical errors. That figure is down from 2016, when the Leapfrog Group estimated there were 205,000 avoidable deaths.
Leah Binder
Leah Binder, president and CEO of the Leapfrog Group, said in a press release. “Hospitals don’t all have the same track record, so it really matters which hospital people choose, which is the purpose of our Hospital Safety Grade.”
“The good news is that tens of thousands of lives have been saved because of progress on patient safety. The bad news is that there’s still a lot of needless death and harm in American hospitals,” said Leah Binder, president and CEO of the Leapfrog Group.
Don’t have a heart attack in New York if you want to live to tell about it. Wonder no longer why the cause of death statistics in New York have taken a dramatic shift.
Under new guidelines issued by the state Health Department, paramedics finding people in a state of cardiac arrest without a heartbeat are not supposed to go through the usual routines of attempting to restart the patient’s heart and respiration. In other words, assuming you are seen by an EMT who is following this guideline, once you’re dead you’re supposed to politely remain on your trip to the afterlife.
While paramedics were previously told to spend up to 20 minutes trying to revive people found in cardiac arrest, the change is “necessary during the COVID-19 response to protect the health and safety of EMS providers by limiting their exposure, conserve resources, and ensure optimal use of equipment to save the greatest number of lives,’’ according to a state Health Department memo issued last week.
First responders were outraged over the move.
“They’re not giving people a second chance to live anymore,’’ Oren Barzilay, head of the city union whose members include uniformed EMTs and paramedics, fumed of state officials.
Particularly in New York City, this isn’t the first such policy change to be issued. The Regional Emergency Services Council of New York (which is responsible for overseeing ambulance services in the Big Apple) issued an even more stern directive. Cardiac patients whose hearts could not be restarted on the scene are no longer supposed to be taken to a hospital “for further life-saving attempts.” Read more at Hot Air
Cuomo continues to get rave reviews in his handling of the virus, yet in typical progressive fashion his value of human life is questionable. Earlier post:
Why did many residents in nursing homes expire because of COVID in NYS? Because they were mandated to take COVID patients discharged from hospitals. What a STUPID move putting those infected with elderly people.
— Brn2Wander ****** TEXT TRUMP to 88022 (@Brn2Wander1) April 20, 2020
According to the latest Judicial ruling in California, Gov. Newsom has emergency authority to control private property. How many think that these properties will remain under government control long after Covid and be properties for the homeless? Better yet, FEMA is kicking into the pot.
This should put a chill down our spine. If we thought the on-going government control of us was too much like1984, try this out for style:
Despite a lawsuit by the city and local property owners, a California judge has ruled that Orange County can turn the 76-room Laguna Hills Inn into a shelter for coronavirus-infected homeless people.
On Monday, Orange County Superior Court Judge Thomas Delaney denied the city’s request for a temporary restraining order until the case for a preliminary injunction is heard on April 30, because Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom has emergency authority to control private property, The Epoch Times reports
The target hotel of Governor Newsom? Not too shabby.
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“The judge noted in his ruling that governor can ‘commander (sic) or utilize’ property in an emergency.”
The judge ruled that Orange County has the authority to impose its will on the City of Laguna Hills because it’s acting as an agent of the state. But, an attorney for the city and property owners calls the decision “a judicial takeaway of important property rights,” The Orange County Register reports:
“Delaney said California’s declaration of emergency gives the county, as an agent for the state, the ability to commandeer a private property to address a public health crisis.
“The city and other property owners located in Plaza Pointe with the hotel argued the conversion of the Laguna Hills Inn violates the rules for uses in the plaza previously set by the property owners.
“My clients are in a horrible position of potentially having a judicial takeaway of important property rights,” attorney Kelly Richardson, who represents the city and other property owners, told the judge at Monday’s hearing.”
At issue is Gov. Newsom’s “Project Roomkey,” which the governor says “will target hotels in counties with significant homeless populations that are also experiencing high concentrations of COVID-19 transmission” – and “receive up to 75 percent cost-share reimbursement from FEMA for hotel and motel rooms, including wraparound supports such as meals, security, and custodial services.”
County officials say the Laguna Hills Inn has been fenced in and the homeless residents not supposed to leave the shelter.
According the City of Laguna Hills website, city officials were never consulted, warned or given any advance notice by the county that it planned to convert the inn into “a shelter for COVID-19 infected transients”
I heard Dr. Sapphire on Fox news yesterday say that people with Covid 19 were transferred to nursing homes. A story to be told.
As many of my readers know I live in a large retirement community which includes continuing care – thus a nursing “home” with various levels of care is included. More about my situation, but let’s get to how we got here.
Nursing homes have become the dumping ground for hospitals who have taken their pound of Medicare – they receive a flat rate, more if patient is on a vent- and then must find a way to get rid of them.
Enter Democrat Governors from New York, New Jersey and Virginia.
Discharging COVID-19 Patients To Nursing Homes Called A 'Recipe For Disaster' https://t.co/PlD3Sd9pOz
Nursing homes have been the sites of some of the earliest — and deadliest — outbreaks of COVID-19. Some people who run such facilities are understandably leery of accepting new patients who might spread the virus.
Nonetheless, some of the largest states are now ordering nursing homes to accept patients who have been discharged from the hospital but are still recovering from COVID-19.
These state directives have been strongly condemned by the Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine. Dr. Sabine von Preyss, chief medical officer for Avalon Health Care Group and president of the society’s Washington state chapter, says that a distinction must be made between nursing homes that have suffered COVID-19 outbreaks and those that are still virus-free.
“The question is, should we be forced to introduce a disease with such deadly potential into a population that has been sheltered?” says von Preyss. “And my experience tells me that would be ill-advised.”
Now that we have established these facts, let’s back up a bit.
The first warning of the devastation that the coronavirus could wreak inside US nursing homes came in late February, when residents of a facility in suburban Seattle perished, one by one, as families waited helplessly outside.
In the ensuing six weeks, large and shockingly lethal outbreaks have continued to ravage nursing homes across the nation, undeterred by urgent new safety requirements. Now a nationwide tally by The New York Times has found the number of people living in or connected to nursing homes who have died of the coronavirus to be at least 7,000, far higher than previously known.
It is a tragedy that is continuing to unfold, and one that even the dire figures that are known only partially capture. The number of cases at these facilities — which include nursing homes, assisted-living facilities, memory care facilities, retirement and senior communities and long-term rehabilitation facilities — is almost certainly still higher since many facilities, counties and states have not provided detailed information.
The outbreaks have been spread across the sprawling senior-care industry, including at publicly run facilities, those run by nonprofit groups and others managed by large corporations.
All of these factors have allowed the virus to thrive, making its way into at least 4,100 US nursing homes and other long-term care facilities, despite increasingly desperate efforts to stop the spread.
Why did many residents in nursing homes expire because of COVID in NYS? Because they were mandated to take COVID patients discharged from hospitals. What a STUPID move putting those infected with elderly people.
— Brn2Wander ****** TEXT TRUMP to 88022 (@Brn2Wander1) April 20, 2020
Relocating patients with COVID-19 to nursing homes
Here I am in bucolic Amish country – Lancaster County…..more retirement communities and nursing homes per square mile than anywhere else in Pennsylvania. I myself live in an Independent living situation within the retirement community. Lucky me. Now the secret.
LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. —
The Lancaster County coroner said more than 80% of the COVID-19 deaths in Lancaster County have occurred in patients at nursing homes and other long-term care facilities.
Dr. Stephen Diamantoni said the largest number of deaths have happened in Lancaster Township, and three facilities have been hit especially hard.
At Conestoga View on East King Street, 24 patients have died.
Hamilton Arms on South West End Avenue reports that 20 residents have died, and another 40 patients and 24 staff members tested positive for COVID-19.
The virus has claimed 15 lives at ManorCare Health Services on Abbeyville Road.
The truth? Sadly there is no required reporting of nursing home Covid illness and deaths for most states. We have no idea of the total number. Just the States that have reported.
While we hear the death report with our evening dinner every night, and how we must play the game of useless masks and distancing… by the way no N95 masks are available here for anyone that I see, let alone surgical masks, yet they are mandatory….We were told to “make our masks.” No one has any idea that their hand made cloth masks are a potential method of infecting themselves and clueless how to make themselves safe.
So I sit on death row…… a knock on the door, food left and the deliverer disappears into the distance. Yet no news about testing of the employees who will sooner or later visit the plague upon us.The gnashing of teeth about testing. But not for us or the employees. So we wait…….when its all done, we will be forgotten.
I doubt we, living here, have time for herd immunity to help us out.
Oh by the way…… We have a Progressive Democrat Governor too….
Circuit Court Judge Bernard Shapiro has ruled Dr. Theresa Greene cannot have custody of her four year-old daughter as long as the Miami, Florida emergency room doctor continues to treat coronavirus patients.
Male doctors are going home every day to wife and kids.
What about nurses?
So the state/government is going to pull children from all essential workers now????
Using this judge’s logic, all Dr.s need to have their children removed. It’s for the safety of the child.
Dr. Greene, who is divorced and had been sharing custody with her ex-husband, is appealing the decision, saying it’s unfair for the judge to force her to choose between her daughter and her oath to health the sick and save lives, WGN TV reports:
An emergency room doctor in Miami, Florida, has temporarily lost custody of her 4-year-old daughter while she treats patients during the coronavirus pandemic.
Dr. Theresa Greene said she was appealing the emergency order that granted her ex-husband full custody of their daughter.
“I think it’s not fair, it’s cruel to ask me to choose between my child and the oath I took as a physician,” Greene said. “I won’t abandon my team at work or the patients who will increasingly look to me to save their lives in the coming weeks, but it’s torture.”
The average age of participants when they moved to a nursing home was about 83. The average length of stay before death was 13.7 months, while the median was five months. Fifty-three percent of nursing home residents in the study died within six months.
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