Just after I posted my own rant about my mother's context in an assisted living, I got a cryptic txt from my sister who lives in Tucson where my mom is. She got a call from the Assisted Living that a (the first) COVID19 case was reported there and they were increasing the restrictions/care and planning a facility-wide testing starting today. They couldn't tell us (or her) if the case was among staff or residents or if it was in the assisted living (~50) who interact more with staff but don't come and go much, or the fully independent (~500) who come and go freely.
My MAGA hat wearing sister/family are speaking on issues as if they somehow became democrats... I highly doubt it... but I think maybe they are trying to eat their MAGA crow in small doses so they don't get the double-stuffed footlong MAGA hoagie handed to them all at once in November. AZ is key and I *hope* they are somewhat typical of their demographic (upper-middle/professional/boomer/white). ∄ uǝlƃ wrote: > Yep. I forget when it happened, April I think. But soon after my mom's > facility locked down, she told me she saw 9 bodies in the lobby on gurneys. I > have no way of knowing if she actually saw that, imagined it, saw it on the > news, or what. My sister's the executor with PoA and such. So I haven't tried > to find out if it was true or not. > > And, really, it's irrelevant. All this focus on number of deaths and even > infections is myopic. The *real* costs should be understood as functions of > our infrastructure, including the psychological well-being of those proximal > to the victims. We've demonstrated to ourselves and the world that our > idiotic fetishization of individualism, including the galling and horrific > experiment of "diverse responses" amongst the different states and counties, > increases suffering. Any utilitarian or consequentialist would laugh at our > fetish if it weren't so horrifying. > > It's fine when our feds are run by someone competent like Obama (or even the > barely competent like Bush) and we have small cliques of moronic > anti-government types [ptouie] running around spouting nonsense. But when > given an inch, those morons will take a whole mile and kill people [†] > willy-nilly just to "thin the herd". > > Nursing homes or whole states pulling-Chinas and hiding deaths feeds into > such rhetoric. It normalizes them and sets precedent for policies and > procedures (i.e. infrastructure) to keep such things quiet. So you're on the > nose to point that out. (I hope we're all on board with FAIR: > https://www.go-fair.org/fair-principles/.) > > I realize Dave's argument is that people simply won't care if my mom dies > alone with a broken hip and rib, shouting into the air that she's shit > herself as some distraught nurse tries to help. But what those people don't > understand is that such events *ripple* out, to me, beyond me, into the > zeitgeist we see in the streets. Speaking of which, I WANT THIS so bad: > https://www.go-fair.org/fair-principles/ > > > [†] Is there a difference between killing and letting die? I'm not confident. > > On 6/23/20 8:02 AM, Jon Zingale wrote: >> In our recent all-hands meeting at work, we talked quite >> a bit about COVID-19 data and in particular the statistics >> related to nursing homes in the US. >> >> ‘Playing Russian Roulette’: Nursing Homes Told to Take the Infected >> https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/us/nursing-homes-coronavirus.html >> >> From the data we discussed, a surprising amount of COVID deaths in many >> states are in nursing homes. 80% of the deaths in Rhode Island, for >> instance. >> >> Many states do not declare the mortality rates for their nursing homes >> and Arizona, perhaps pulling-a-China, declares a number far less than >> others. > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
