The nursing homes couldn't stop them. It was their home. They'd been discharged from the hospital. Are you arguing they can't return home? A bunch of elderly people just discharged from the hospital forced to live on the streets in April?
> the 9/11-style Nursing Home Victims Compensation Fund would earmark $4 billion to families whose relatives died amid the state’s nursing home debacle at the start of the pandemic ... Kim’s legislation is in response to a provision included in ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s 2020 state budget called the “Emergency or Disaster Treatment Protection Act,” which granted health care facilities and workers liability immunity from negligence suits during the early days of the pandemic.
> The corporate immunity clause was supported by New York’s powerful healthcare lobbying group, the Greater New York Hospital Association – which has donated millions to Cuomo’s campaign in the past, according to reports ... "The former governor took millions of dollars in donations from the millionaire nursing home owners, gave those friends blanket protection for their negligence which led to 15,000 deaths, and then tried to hide those deaths from the public”
What case? Why don't you turn down the Cuomo rage.
Let's just consider those that died. Where do you put just those 15000 elderly patients so that they still get adequate healthcare for their existing conditions without killing them with Covid exposure just like already happened. Just going to lock them in a hotel room?
Nobody said you can't enjoy your lives. Nobody is calling to shut down all restaurants. But like to put it in perspectives: extra 1M people died, many more millions are in financial ruin, hudreeds of thousands are facing long-term health consequences.
Restaurant reservations being down on one platform is hardly of any importance in comparison. Try getting a reservation for a friday night in any decent place in Manhattan, I dare you
> Restaurants .. are integral to Manhattan’s central business districts and the City’s vibrant tourism industry, attracting millions of visitors each year who spend a total of $46 billion annually. The industry is the second-largest component of tourism spending, behind lodging ... had 23,650 establishments in 2019, provided 317,800 jobs, paid $10.7 billion in total wages ... 8.1 percent of jobs and 8.7 percent of firms.
Yeah wtf this article. Who exactly are vaccine mandates hurting? pretty sure Manhattan is mostly vaxxed, for what is worth most people are more comfortable dining out with the vax mandates.
Also NYC was averaging >30000 cases a day. Not saying covid is deadly anymore, but personally I really didn't feel like getting sick for 2 weeks for what... eating overpriced food?
Not judging people who go out and live lives though, I know at this point it's not really about "stopping the spread" at all costs. But give me a break, I'm not going to feel bad about not going to restaurants, especially since most of them happily reverted to "no delivery/no take out" pretentious ways.
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Of course not all those deaths were Covid related but I think we usually try to reduce unnecessary deaths...
https://nypost.com/2022/01/23/nursing-home-families-blast-ho...
> the 9/11-style Nursing Home Victims Compensation Fund would earmark $4 billion to families whose relatives died amid the state’s nursing home debacle at the start of the pandemic ... Kim’s legislation is in response to a provision included in ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s 2020 state budget called the “Emergency or Disaster Treatment Protection Act,” which granted health care facilities and workers liability immunity from negligence suits during the early days of the pandemic.
> The corporate immunity clause was supported by New York’s powerful healthcare lobbying group, the Greater New York Hospital Association – which has donated millions to Cuomo’s campaign in the past, according to reports ... "The former governor took millions of dollars in donations from the millionaire nursing home owners, gave those friends blanket protection for their negligence which led to 15,000 deaths, and then tried to hide those deaths from the public”
Let's just consider those that died. Where do you put just those 15000 elderly patients so that they still get adequate healthcare for their existing conditions without killing them with Covid exposure just like already happened. Just going to lock them in a hotel room?
Restaurant reservations being down on one platform is hardly of any importance in comparison. Try getting a reservation for a friday night in any decent place in Manhattan, I dare you
> Restaurants .. are integral to Manhattan’s central business districts and the City’s vibrant tourism industry, attracting millions of visitors each year who spend a total of $46 billion annually. The industry is the second-largest component of tourism spending, behind lodging ... had 23,650 establishments in 2019, provided 317,800 jobs, paid $10.7 billion in total wages ... 8.1 percent of jobs and 8.7 percent of firms.
Also NYC was averaging >30000 cases a day. Not saying covid is deadly anymore, but personally I really didn't feel like getting sick for 2 weeks for what... eating overpriced food?
Not judging people who go out and live lives though, I know at this point it's not really about "stopping the spread" at all costs. But give me a break, I'm not going to feel bad about not going to restaurants, especially since most of them happily reverted to "no delivery/no take out" pretentious ways.