To protect hospitals they killed in care homes. reuters.com/investigates/s…
We know that is not true.
The first coronavirus test of a resident of the Lodge only took place on April 29. That was 34 days after the first suspected case at the home’
“The government’s response on testing has come way too late to have any meaningful effect on keeping the virus out of our homes,” said Knight’
How many died without hospital treatment?
Helen Wildbore, director of the relatives and residents association.
Why would they conclude that?
But they didn’t. What did govt do to protect those living in care homes? Who is more vulnerable? They left them to die.
Govt talked big, did nothing & people died in care homes in their thousands.
Sounds like government as incompetence to me.
But there was not. Why did she say there was when there was not.
A month later there were still shortages. Did Mr Johnson lie to Parliament? What he said was not true.
We have experience of this government lying.
No plan.
According to several care home managers, a key route for infection was opened up by an NHS decision taken in mid-March, as Britain geared up for the pandemic, to transfer 15,000 patients out of hospitals and back into the community’
By all means clap for NHS workers but don’t clap for the Dept of Health or anyone in govt.
Jamie Wilson.
“It was just so reckless,” she said. “They were not thinking at all about us. It was like they were saying, let’s abandon the old people.”
Empty promises and policies that killed.
Sonya Kaygan’s words to her mother as she left for hospital.
Sonya Kaygan died. Govt policies contributed to her death.
A nurse, he said, told him: “We've been told not to send people to hospital. Just leave them here. They're comfortable.”’
How many stories like this are there?
Even so, deaths in care homes were surging.’
So many failures by government. Most of it stemming from their incapacity to test.
To protect the NHS? To have a win? To claim that you are successful?
Read the article. It will appall you.
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