That's just fucking retarded. Like there werent any other alternatives, than killing most of the other elderly. I still cant fathom that this mismanagement has no repercussions for the ones responsible.
It clearly isn’t the best option but what else would you do? It was a new virus, we still don’t know when you’re really still contagious or not. According to the latest cdc guidelines most of the people who are discharged after being admitted would have been considered recovered. People who were discharged from the ER bc they don’t need to be in the hospital: at some point not everything Is a hospitals fault.
For example, you live in a nursing home, get COVID, but don’t need to be admitted to the hospital bc you have a milder case, what now? You go home back to the NH. It’s on the NH to have policies and figure out what to do in a pandemic. Keep in mind most NHs are staffed with basically retards and the lowest educated “nurses”, etc.
It’s easy to say “setup a temporary facility!” But that’s asking to materialize numerous multiple thousand sq ft facilities that old people can live in (people literally live in NHs), have them be staffed, fed, and still provide whatever standard of care they provide.
Remember in the ER anyone that has COVID and doesn’t need to be admitted is being sent home so as to not overwhelm the system. And people that only need like 2LNC of oxygen (basically the lowest amount someone who needs oxygen would get) will a lot of the times get a case management consult in the Er to get them oxygen tanks immediately and they go home from the Er wirh their oxygen.
Also, in the earlier times some covid tests were taking up to 2 weeks to result out. So that patient would be a person under investigation but no known true diagnosis. And the variable presentation of the virus made it easy to miss and that’s multiple reasons how many outbreaks occur. Even now I just test covid on any weird shit bc it has many presentations.
Anyway, just food for thought for people who are all like “oh my god how did covid patients just Get sent to nursing homes to infect everyone!”