I disagree completely. There has not been one moment of this pandemic where it was not understood that the most vulnerable people were the old and the sick. Delivering coronavirus directly to the old and sick could be explained away as incompetence, if they were left no alternatives. But they had several alternatives. As you said, the hospitals they were already in were not filling as predicted and they could have stayed there. The USNS Comfort was dedicated for this purpose, but never had more than 20 patients - but did have 1000 empty beds. In fact, if you think about it longer than two seconds, there was no more dangerous place to send COVID positive patients. Even if you give their initial incompetence the benefit of the doubt, it should have been immediately obvious that this was a death sentence for people in nursing homes. The policy should have been reversed quickly, instead of being allowed to continue for months. It's malice. Period. They let it ravage the nursing homes to run up the "Trump death count" with old, sick, forgotten people.
I disagree completely. There has not been one moment of this pandemic where it was not understood that the most vulnerable people were the old and the sick. Delivering coronavirus directly to the old and sick could be explained away as incompetence, if they were left no alternatives. But they had several alternatives. As you said, the hospitals they were already in were not filling as predicted and they could have stayed there. The USNS Comfort was dedicated for this purpose, but never had more than 20 patients - but did have 1000 empty beds. In fact, if you think about it longer than two seconds, there was no more dangerous place to send COVID positive patients. Even if you give their initial incompetence the benefit of the doubt, it should have been immediately obvious that this was a death sentence for people in nursing homes. The policy should have been reversed quickly, instead of being allowed to continue for months. It's malice. Period. They let it ravage the nursing homes to run up the "Trump death count" with old, sick, forgotten people.