The political response to COVID keeps reminding me of 9/11. The US was definitely meddling in foreign affairs, and was apparently dabbling in gain-of-function research for viruses. Both terrorism and contagions are real dangers. However, the political solution was naked authoritarianism and arbitrary mandates instead of rational, measured response. I don't see COVID having a massive impact, but I see politics hitting hard.
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I only know what my Dad went through with Covid. He was 80 years old with Alzheimer's but otherwise healthy. He was in a car accident then caught Covid in a rehab facility. The rehab facility transferred him to a sister facility that they were consolidating all there Covid positive patients in. This is where things got really dark. We would call in the morning to check on him and the staff would say he was great, coherent, and even laughing. When we'd get there in the afternoon it was the opposite, he was barely conscious, moaning, having spasms. His condition deteriorated very rapidly. I didn't even recognize him after the window visit on the third day he was so bloated and I demanded that he be taken to the ER.
After examining him they ER doctors told us he was severely dehydrated and going into kidney failure. That second facility not only hadn't been giving him his prescribed meds (one of which was an opioid so he was detoxing on top of everything else) but wasn't giving him nutrition or water. Another few hours in there and he would've died. After being stabilized at the hospital he lived for about another week on a ventilator but was too weakened to survive. We spoke with an attorney to explore suing the facility but the governor of Ohio issued a blanket immunity for these facilities to shield them from litigation.
I can't help but wonder how many other people they did this to?
Sounds like rampant malpractice.