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Originally Posted by SunnySide
Re the nursing home issue ...
Where should we have put these elderly after they get out of the hospital/go over covid?
Id assume they were in nursing homes bc family was not around or couldnt care for them to begin with.
Leave them out in the street?
Keep them in the hospitals that needed beds?
What should have happened to them?
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Short answer: Anywhere but where they were put.
Long answer:
I would have begun by utilizing the 1000 bed hospital ship that was there and largely ignored. Then I would squelched my ego and asked for as many more as the government would send.
From there, I would have looked into military installations, both active and decommissioned. Move the young GIs into heated tents and move the elderly into the barracks. And a few portable generators would have got the old places up and running.
If that was not enough, I would looked at armories, dormitories, and anywhere else I could comfortably situate those old folks.
And just to be clear, I had no political axe to grind with Andrew Cuomo. I was a great admirer of his father and even interned in his office. We all got whomped by this and have largely stumbled around. But moving those people back into nursing homes was insane.