Covid Policy Killed My Grandmother
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Covid Policy Killed My Grandmother
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#2My grandparents had just moved into a nice elder care home right before COVID lockdowns started. They were put into the same conditions as described by the OP (although at least they had each other). I remember receiving a photo of them looking at my mom and her siblings through glass doors, that was the maximum of contact they were allowed from visits.
They and my family decided to take them out and put them back in their own house instead of leaving them in lockdown. Reading this, I'm glad that decision was made.
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#3No post body was provided.
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#4A compelling, emotionally charged personal story, backed up with cold actuarial statistics. A rare gem.
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#5Quoted post unavailable.
> What did we learn about rates of suicide during the COVID-19 pandemic (first 16 months)? In contrast to alarmist predictions of increasing rates of suicide as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic, overall rates actually declined or at worst stayed stable
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8110323/
First hit on “covid suicide” on DDG. Care to provide rebutting evidence?
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#6This is what happens when health policy is based on media optics and public opinion, along with a myopic view on “health”. Can’t really blame health authorities too much, they would have met a lot more criticism if they had a more loose Covid policy.
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#7Depends on where the facility was I guess, as they burned through many states/provinces (underfunded?) places pretty badly when covid started. Hard to manage when the usually-part-time staff is either the transmission vector or flees the scene. Perhaps Covid revealed that far too many of these places are merely storage containers for those unable to live on their own?
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#8This is what happens when health policy is based on media optics and public opinion, along with a myopic view on “health”. Can’t really blame health authorities too much, they would have met a lot more criticism if they had a more loose Covid policy.
Some other countries had looser COVID policies. Did their health authorities meet a lot of criticism?
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#9Why not just take her out of the nursing home?
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#10Post was emotionally charged but left me thinking, “If you cared so much about her why did you stick her in a nursing home?”