What CHAZ/CHOP could really mean: the beginning of the Second Civil War

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Never in my seven decades on the planet did I think I would be writing about events that seem to have stemmed from fiction. Certainly, I’ve read George Orwell’s “1984” and Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” and, yes, the words, phrases and actions coming from members of the American Left are strikingly similar to whole sections of both books.

In another world and another time I would have said something similar to “interesting analysis” or “my, isn’t that quaint,” but people are dying in America right now because of “philosophical differences.”

We have now jumped the shark, jumped time, jumped fiction, pissed all over the air brakes, climbed into the Dr Peabody’s Wayback Machine in order to realize that, yeah, that Orwell dude was spot on.

And another author too, one you may not have read — but I’ve had him on my internet radio show five times. That would be veteran, attorney, commentator and author Kurt Schlichter.

What Kurt Schlichter did is this: he said “I want to write a book about the most fanciful, the most egregious, the most stupid potential scenario in the history of the United States, have some fun with it, push it to extremes — and then push it further.”

His first book, PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC, is about a dystopian near-future where politics have gotten to the point where the United States became Balkanized, grew apart, and segmented itself into blue and red areas. Then they had a civil war. Then things got worse. Kurt is now up to a total of four books in the series, to also include INDIAN COUNTRY, WILDFIRE and his most recent, COLLAPSE.

And guess what? Just when everyone was calling Kurt Schlichter a loon and every other foul word imaginable because he happens to be a Militant Normal like myself — hey, turns out things in America are following Schlichter’s books.

Fiction becomes reality. Fit re ficta. Just as I used to say for years when I was amazed at various happenstances, “you can’t write this stuff” — well, yeah, turns out you can write this stuff.

Let us begin. Our story follows the Minneapolis riots and the national rioting that occurred. Once the riots died down a bit, the whole paradigm shifted into “Defund The Police.” Much in-depth information about that, here in my post.

President Trump has clearly condemned the death of George Floyd — despite every attempt by the LDAMM to insist that he has not. Here is the evidence.

Following that and concurrently, we thusly end up, of course, in Seattle, Washington — the very hub of Antifa and anarchy.

Like a Marvel Origins story — but instead, this is evil incarnate — the precipitous collapse of America will find its origins in the decision to pull all of the Seattle police officers out of its East Precinct. It was abandoned. We know it was abandoned because officers pulled out all the files, equipment, evidence, and every officer left with all their vehicles. Call me wacky — that seems like abandonment to me. Hold the thought.

Within that decision there are two major Seattle government players involved, both women.

That would be Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan (good ol’ Mayor Jenny), a massive Leftist with no rudder position available save that of hard aport. And the head of the Seattle Police Department, Chief Carmen Best. Although apparently not really.

A slight aside: on May 31st, President Trump announced that Antifa was designated a terrorist organization.

Trump announces US to designate Antifa as terrorist organization following violent protests

by Ronn Blitzer

President Trump announced Sunday that the U.S. government will designate the far-left group Antifa as a terrorist organization.

This comes as Trump has blamed Antifa for riots taking place across the country in response to the death of George Floyd, the unarmed black man who died May 25 while in police custody in Minneapolis, Minn., after an officer kneeled on his neck for more than 8 minutes in an incident caught on video.

This is also very important to note, from the WashingtonTimes.com:

EXCLUSIVE: Antifa planned anti-government insurgency for months, law enforcement official says

by Bill Gertz, 6-3-20

Activists of the far-left Antifa movement began planning to foment a nationwide anti-government insurgency as early as November as the U.S. presidential campaign season kicked off in earnest, according to a law enforcement official with access to intelligence behind the shadowy group.

The radical movement has emerged as a key focus for investigators in the wake of violent protests and looting across the country after the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis, according to U.S. law enforcement officials and private security experts.

The law enforcement official would not speak on the record about Antifa’s plans as the election season heats up, but longtime analysts of the group say such a move would be entirely in character.

“Antifa’s actions represent a hard break with the long tradition of a peaceful political process in the United States,” said former National Security Council staff member Rich Higgins. “Their Marxist ideology seeks not only to influence elections in the short term but to destroy the use of elections as the determining factor in political legitimacy.”

Added Joe Myers, a former Defense Intelligence Agency official and counterinsurgency expert, “President Trump’s election and revitalization of America are a threat to Antifa’s nihilist goals. They are fomenting this violence to create havoc, despair and to target the Trump campaign for defeat in 2020.”

All you need to know about Antifa. And Seattle is Antifa’s very own back yard.

One thing we did know — and will discover again shortly — is that a society making war on its police had best become great friends with its criminals. Seattle took that to heart.

It started with this, from FoxNews.com, on June 8th.

Seattle protesters declare ‘cop free zone’ after police leave precinct

by Michael Ruiz

Protesters declared a “Cop Free Zone” near where Seattle police boarded up and seemingly abandoned their East Precinct building Monday night, according to local reports — following days of demonstrations in response to the police-involved death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

But with the building boarded up and police gone from the area, at least some demonstrators apparently decided to stay in place.

The first night without a police presence was “rainy and peaceful and full of speeches from activists, agitators, poets and socialist city council members,” according to Capitol Hill Seattle, a self-described community-based news blog.

And then it began.

The city’s police chief, Carmen Best, said Tuesday that police would further alter their approach to handling protests in the area, MyNorthwest reported.

The new approach is evident in images that Town Hall reporter Julio Rosas shared to Twitter.

They show hand-written signs taped to barricades in the area with messages including “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” and “You are now leaving the USA.”

CHAZ was born; the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone.

Another image shows “Welcome to Free Cap Hill” and “No Cops Allowed” scrawled in black marker across a plastic road barrier.

Seattle police noted on Twitter than the department is still responding to 911 calls.

Not for long.

Once CHAZ was created and Antifa and anarchist elements walled off a six-block section of one of the nicest portions of downtown Seattle, it was time to flex some muscles and produce a set of “demands.”

Antifa Releases List of Demands After Taking Over 6 Square Block Section in Seattle and Setting Up Armed Security Watch — List Includes Reparations and Ending Police Dept.

by Jim Hoft, 6-10-20

The antifa mob believes the district now belongs to them.

Here are their “demands.”

Given the historical moment, we’ll begin with our demands pertaining to the Justice System.

  1. The Seattle Police Department and attached court system are beyond reform. We do not request reform, we demand abolition. We demand that the Seattle Council and the Mayor defund and abolish the Seattle Police Department and the attached Criminal Justice Apparatus. This means 100% of funding, including existing pensions for Seattle Police. At an equal level of priority we also demand that the city disallow the operations of ICE in the city of Seattle.
  2. In the transitionary period between now and the dismantlement of the Seattle Police Department, we demand that the use of armed force be banned entirely. No guns, no batons, no riot shields, no chemical weapons, especially against those exercising their First Amendment right as Americans to protest.
  3. We demand an end to the school-to-prison pipeline and the abolition of youth jails. Get kids out of prison, get cops out of schools. We also demand that the new youth prison being built in Seattle currently be repurposed.
  4. We demand that not the City government, nor the State government, but that the Federal government launch a full-scale investigation into past and current cases of police brutality in Seattle and Washington, as well as the re-opening of all closed cases reported to the Office of Police Accountability. In particular, we demand that cases particular to Seattle and Washington be reopened where no justice has been served, namely the cases of Iosia Faletogo, Damarius Butts, Isaiah Obet, Tommy Le, Shaun Fuhr, and Charleena Lyles.
  5. We demand reparations for victims of police brutality, in a form to be determined.
  6. We demand that the City of Seattle make the names of officers involved in police brutality a matter of public record. Anonymity should not even be a privilege in public service.
  7. We demand a retrial of all People in Color currently serving a prison sentence for violent crime, by a jury of their peers in their community.
  8. We demand decriminalization of the acts of protest, and amnesty for protestors generally, but specifically those involved in what has been termed “The George Floyd Rebellion” against the terrorist cell that previously occupied this area known as the Seattle Police Department. This includes the immediate release of all protestors currently being held in prison after the arrests made at 11th and Pine on Sunday night and early Saturday morning June 7th and 8th, and any other protesters arrested in the past two weeks of the uprising, the name Evan Hreha in particular comes to mind who filmed Seattle police macing a young girl and is now in jail.
  9. We demand that the City of Seattle and the State Government release any prisoner currently serving time for a marijuana-related offense and expunge the related conviction.
  10. We demand the City of Seattle and State Government release any prisoner currently serving time just for resisting arrest if there are no other related charges, and that those convictions should also be expunged.
  11. We demand that prisoners currently serving time be given the full and unrestricted right to vote, and for Washington State to pass legislation specifically breaking from Federal law that prevents felons from being able to vote.
  12. We demand an end to prosecutorial immunity for police officers in the time between now and the dissolution of the SPD and extant justice system.
  13. We demand the abolition of imprisonment, generally speaking, but especially the abolition of both youth prisons and privately-owned, for-profit prisons.
  14. We demand in replacement of the current criminal justice system the creation of restorative/transformative accountability programs as a replacement for imprisonment.
  15. We demand autonomy be given to the people to create localized anti-crime systems.
  16. We demand that the Seattle Police Department, between now and the time of its abolition in the near future, empty its “lost and found” and return property owned by denizens of the city.
  17. We demand justice for those who have been sexually harassed or abused by the Seattle Police Department or prison guards in the state of Washington.
  18. We demand that between now and the abolition of the SPD that each and every SPD officer turn on their body cameras, and that the body camera video of all Seattle police should be a matter of easily accessible public record.
  19. We demand that the funding previously used for Seattle Police be redirected into: A) Socialized Health and Medicine for the City of Seattle. B) Free public housing, because housing is a right, not a privilege. C) Public education, to decrease the average class size in city schools and increase teacher salary. D) Naturalization services for immigrants to the United States living here undocumented. (We demand they be called “undocumented” because no person is illegal.) E) General community development. Parks, etc.

We also have economic demands that must be addressed.

  1. We demand the de-gentrification of Seattle, starting with rent control.
  2. We demand the restoration of city funding for arts and culture to re-establish the once-rich local cultural identity of Seattle.
  3. We demand free college for the people of the state of Washington, due to the overwhelming effect that education has on economic success, and the correlated overwhelming impact of poverty on people of color, as a form of reparations for the treatment of Black people in this state and country.
  4. We demand that between now and the abolition of the SPD that Seattle Police be prohibited from performing “homeless sweeps” that displace and disturb our homeless neighbors, and on equal footing we demand an end to all evictions.
  5. We demand a decentralized election process to give the citizens of Seattle a greater ability to select candidates for public office such that we are not forced to choose at the poll between equally undesirable options. There are multiple systems and policies in place which make it impractical at best for working-class people to run for public office, all of which must go, starting with any fees associated with applying to run for public office.

Related to economic demands, we also have demands pertaining to what we would formally call “Health and Human Services.”

  1. We demand the hospitals and care facilities of Seattle employ black doctors and nurses specifically to help care for black patients.
  2. We demand the people of Seattle seek out and proudly support Black-owned businesses. Your money is our power and sustainability.
  3. We demand that the city create an entirely separate system staffed by mental health experts to respond to 911 calls pertaining to mental health crises, and insist that all involved in such a program be put through thorough, rigorous training in conflict de-escalation.

Finally, let us now address our demands regarding the education system in the City of Seattle and State of Washington.

  1. We demand that the history of Black and Native Americans be given a significantly greater focus in the Washington State education curriculum.
  2. We demand that thorough anti-bias training become a legal requirement for all jobs in the education system, as well as in the medical profession and in mass media.
  3. We demand the City of Seattle and State of Washington remove any and all monuments dedicated to historical figures of the Confederacy, whose treasonous attempts to build an America with slavery as a permanent fixture were an affront to the human race.

A slight list. Nothing too extensive or costly.

Meantime, back at the ranch, Washington Governor Jay Inslee thought the whole affair was just good clean fun, worth chuckling about.

Jay Inslee Laughs About Antifa’s Rebellion in Seattle as He Demobilizes National Guard

by Tyler O’Neill, 6-10-20

As antifa militants have taken over six blocks of Seattle’s Capitol Hill district, calling it the “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” or the “People’s Republic of Capitol Hill,” Gov. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) laughed about this open rebellion, saying he hadn’t heard about it. Inslee added that the National Guard is demobilizing, and his chief of staff suggested that even if an open rebellion had broken out on the streets of Seattle, it would be up to “local authorities” to fight it.

“Passing the buck” doesn’t even begin to cover the insanity of this “response.”

A reporter asked Inslee about the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone during the governor’s press conference on Wednesday, noting that the antifa militants had shut down part of the city and were “not allowing people to come and go freely.” He did not mention the fact that antifa had commandeered the Seattle Police East Precinct.

Jay Inslee is proving extremely derelict in his duty by not responding to this rebellion — and his decision to laugh at it is particularly damning. Rebellion is no laughing matter, especially for the 500 Americans whose homes are in the “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone.”

It’s just a love-fest, isn’t it? Isn’t that what Seattle Mayor Jenny said? Listen to her talk about the “summer of love” with CNN’s Chris Cuomo. Start at 3:15.

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan defends ‘Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone’ as ‘patriotic’

by Tamar Lapin, 6-11-20

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan on Thursday defended the protesters who have declared an “autonomous zone” on the city’s streets as “patriotic.”

In her remarks, Durkan said officials were in communication with residents, business owners and protesters in the zone, adding “it is not an armed Antifa militia, it is not a no-go zone.”

“We will make sure we find some way for people to continue to protest peacefully,” she said.

Neither Durkan nor Police Chief Carmen Best, who was also at the press conference, detailed specific plans for how to deal with the zone or a timeline for when cops would return to the precinct.

And didn’t CNN say, hell, these are just kids having a good time. Guns? What guns?

Right-wing media says Antifa militants have seized part of Seattle. Local authorities say otherwise

by Oliver Darcy, 6-11-20

Armed militant activists with the group Antifa have seized a sizable section of Seattle and are plotting to expand their territory — all as the local police surrender to them and evacuate a local precinct.

Or so the story goes if you’ve relied on right-wing media for your news this week.
“You have now talk about armed volunteers of Antifa to guard their cop-free zone and taken over precincts,” Fox News host Sean Hannity told viewers Wednesday night on his television show, the highest-rated program on cable news.
It is true that demonstrators have occupied a small, six-square block section of Seattle and designated it an “autonomous zone.” And it is true that, after clashes with police, a precinct was boarded up and evacuated in an attempt to deescalate the situation.
But claims that bands of militant Antifa members are roving the Seattle streets appear to be grossly exaggerated in right-wing media. In fact, according to the Seattle mayor’s office, city officials haven’t seen any evidence to indicate armed members of Antifa are even on the ground.

Of course not. Why would they?

As CHAZ changed the name of a portion of Seattle, I thought the name Seattle itself was too pedestrian, grounded in historical repression of indigenous people. I suggest New Marx City, Leninville, Stasi Central, Commie City, Che Land, Engels Town or Woke Child Mob City. I like the last one best.

But wait. Not only did CNN celebrate the munificence that is CHAZ, so did the New York Times.

New York Times celebrates Seattle protesters’ ‘Autonomous Zone’: ‘A homeland for racial justice’

by Brian Flood, 6-11-20

The New York Times celebrated Seattle’s six-block area abandoned by law enforcement dubbed “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” as “a homeland for racial justice” on Thursday.

President Trump tweeted late Wednesday that “domestic terrorists” have taken over an area in Seattle amid George Floyd protests. Liberal organizations such as MSNBC and CNN have downplayed or ignored the story, with critics pointing out that the lawlessness doesn’t fit their agenda.

The Times went a different route, embracing the area with a glowing feature, “Free Food, Free Speech and Free of Police: Inside Seattle’s ‘Autonomous Zone.’”

“The entire area was now a homeland for racial justice — and, depending on the protester one talked to, perhaps something more,” Baker wrote. “What has emerged is an experiment in life without the police — part street festival, part commune. Hundreds have gathered to hear speeches, poetry and music.”

It’s truly 1968 all over again, the “summer of love” as Mayor Durkan said.

It’s fun for all. What a romp. Except not quite so much fun for residents not daring to venture out, stick their noses out the door, and a bit of reality crashed in. There was crime. You know, like, eh, real crime. Not in our Utopia!

And the Chief and the Mayor began to part ways.

Seattle Police Chief: ‘We’re Not Able to Get to’ 911 Calls for ‘Rape, Robbery’ in Autonomous Zone

by Tobias Hoonhout, 6-12-20

The head of the Seattle’s Police Department told officers in a video address on Thursday that the decision to abandon the city’s Third Precinct to activists was “not my decision,” and has prevented the department from responding to emergency calls in the Capitol Hill neighborhood.

On Wednesday, the Seattle Police Department said it would try to reopen the East Precinct, and Best was able to visit the location on Thursday. “Our calls for service have more than tripled,” she told reporters. “These are responses to emergency calls — rapes, robberies, and all sorts of violent acts that have been occurring in the area that we’re not able to get to.”

Yes. That was Seattle PD Chief Carmen Best throwing Mayor Jenny under the bus. I wonder how much Seattle is in Best’s future?

Then Chief Best admits her inability to protect the public — in public.

This article emerged, from King5.

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan made the call to remove barriers around East Precinct in Capitol Hill

by King5 Staff

“Mayor Durkan concluded the situation could only be deescalated between officers and demonstrators by removing the barriers,” read a statement Thursday evening.

SEATTLE — The office of Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan released a statement Thursday evening saying it was her decision to remove the barriers around the Seattle Police Department’s East Precinct in Capitol Hill. 

So let’s ask ourselves: what are we discovering about beautiful downtown CHAZ? First thing that CHAZ did is:

  • Erect borders,
  • Install armed guards,
  • ID checks,
  • Control who enters & exits,
  • Enable stop & frisk,
  • Institute cash shakedowns for “protection” of businesses,
  • And the same thing for citizens in their homes.

Hey, what happened to Utopia? Why are these people getting hungry? Why are they requesting — sometimes demanding — some very specific stuff? Did they have that luxury? Apparently so.

Please avoid clothing donations from major labels. Drab/brown clothing preferred. Please remove logos from anything waterproof #CapitalHillAutonomousZone #chaz #chazseattle #chazcomms #seattlechaz

They even had a — dare I say it! — “whiteboard” with a list of necessary supplies. Let’s see.  .  .

Not to stop at the wholesale giveaway of an entire police precinct, equanimity apparently came into play when Mayor Durkan additionally decided it would be a great idea to give the mob a fire station as well. Who gets to clang the bell and toot the horn?

Bet you didn’t hear this one on chirped out by the American Media Maggots, did you?

Seattle cedes fire station to protesters to turn into community center

by Madison Dibble, 6-12-20

The city of Seattle announced that it would turn a fire station into a community center for black residents after weeks of protests.

The city announced on Thursday that it would be turning over ownership of the fire station to the community in line with a list of demands given to the city from Africatown and other black activist groups.

“We at the City of Seattle understand the urgency behind making bold investments in the Black community and increasing community ownership of land in the Central District,” the city wrote. “The City believes in the vision behind the William Grose Center for Cultural Innovation and we remain committed to making the transfer of Fire Station 6 to the community a reality.”

After all, fuck it, if you don’t need cops then who needs fire protection? Actually, both of those aspects are over-rated.

One thing Seattle forgot: infrastructure is costly. Very costly. And if you want to reactivate a station due to a spate of building expansion, high-rises or a population increase, well, you’re looking at millions of dollars.

In the meantime, CHAZ worried about some very heady stuff. Like: what did CHAZ really mean, and wasn’t it time to change the name?

Seattle’s ‘CHAZ’ Changes Its Name To ‘CHOP,’ Drops ‘Autonomous’ After Complaints

by Emily Zanotti, 6-15-20

Amid concerns that federal officials could storm an “autonomous zone” that had declared itself a separate nation from the United States, residents of Seattle, Washington’s “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” or “CHAZ” have changed their installation’s name to “CHOP” — the “Capitol Hill Organized Protest.”

“CHAZ” was also facing concerns that it was not fully “autonomous” as its name suggested after reporters documented the “independent” “demonstration” receiving pizza and food deliveries, calling the Seattle Fire Department to report a nearby dumpster on fire, calling Seattle Emergency Services for assistance in several medical emergencies, and having dirt, compost and plants trucked in for their “community garden.”

The devil is in fact in the details.

But here’s the reality right now for Seattle residents locked into CHAZ-CHOP. This is what passes for law enforcement there. Lies, no health, no protection, no safety.

Police Chief Carmen Best: ‘There is no cop-free zone in the city of Seattle’

by KIRO News Staff, 6-15-20

SEATTLE — Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best spoke candidly Monday about the occupied protest zone in zone in Capitol Hill, saying there is no area of the city that police cannot respond too.

“SPD will respond to things that threaten life and safety,” Best said.

Best held the press conference after some reports that emergency responders were not able to respond to calls from inside the protest zone, dubbed CHOP or CHAZ, KIRO-7 reported.

But listen to what she said.

Best said that officers did respond to calls last night and observed from a distance but did not see anything that was a threat to life and safety.

Officers “observed from a distance.” That’s certainly sufficient to make folks feel comfortable. “Yep,” they’ll say, “I sure feel better the cops are observing our problems from a distance.” Now that’s American policing.

“We are trying to avoid anything that will escalate. We are working hard to get a peaceful resolution,” she said.

The police chief said that officers will try and coordinate with the victim or caller to meet outside CHOP boundaries whenever possible to avoid conflicts with protesters, KIRO-7 reported.

Okay, read that again. Police will go to the perimeter, the periphery of CHAZ-CHOP, but you’ll have to come to them. Better yet, you come past the border. They can’t or won’t.

Best did say that response times in the East Precinct have been affected broadly and it is taking three times longer for emergency responders to arrive, the TV station reported.

As she was leaving, Best emphasized one last time that officers are responding, and this is “a small fragment of the city that has caused a lot of attention.”

So what part of that made any sense whatsoever in a large American city, circa 2020? We’re the cops, we’re not coming to you? You come to us? We’re too afraid to take back the streets? We might offend someone? We might hurt someone? Pay no attention to those rapes and crimes beyond the borders. They don’t really count.

Listen, if you have the stomach:

Maybe, Chief Best is thinking, if we pretend they don’t exist, they really won’t exist. Then we won’t have to tally them on the backs of our crime reports for FBI statistics. Brilliant!

Time to remind everyone that Leftists, just like Republicans, eat their young. Many times Leftists discover that they are insufficiently left for the Left. CHAZ-CHOP’s self-appointed, armed warlord being one of them.

Irony Overload: Autonomous Zone ‘Warlord’ May Soon Be Canceled after Old Homophobic Tweets Surface

As we’ve previously reported, the Democrat/media-driven rush to “cancel” anyone who decides to think for themselves instead of participating in left-wing groupthink in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd is at a fever pitch, with professors, media figures, and pro-sports icons among those being tossed into the fire left and right.

But in an ironic twist of fate, a cancel notice may soon be coming for Raz Simone, the “warlord” of the radical Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) in Seattle, Washington as old homophobic tweets from his Twitter account have surfaced that appear to be legit based on various web archive websites.

Sad. Dethroned at such an early age for writing “faggot.” The WCM — Woke Child Mob — Purity Test. Even some black dude can’t pass it.

Then came President Trump. “Take back your city,” he said, “or I’ll do it.”

As Thomas Sowell wrote in 2009: “If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.”

But the big question is: what would that look like? Taking back Seattle?

From my perspective, give the people what they want. This is Seattle. Consider the source. The Seattle Mayor wants CHAZ-CHOP undisturbed. We know that Chief Best doesn’t have the guts to apply her officers. And now, having waited so long, we know one thing: the mob is armed with long guns. Look at the photographs above.

Windows of opportunity are frequently open for small periods of time. Seattle had a chance to take back its streets — much less having acquiesced to giving them away in the first place, for no reason whatsoever.

But this is what Seattle wants. The mayor wants it. The governor wants it. The chief is weak and wants to keep her job. And the most important part of all?

This is what people in Washington and specifically, Seattle, voted for. Give it to them. Let them wallow in its splendid cesspool. Let them smell the waste, taste the depths of depravity, know what it feels like to have no one in any government position of authority really care about them, to spout platitudes, to make speeches and, ultimately, to let the residents of CHAZ-CHOP be abandoned. They well and truly are on their own.

I say: let there be actual consequences for stupidity this time. Let this festering dump be just that. Let them wade in their own squalor and filth, courtesy of the Greatness of Leftism.

Because what’s the alternative? That’s right; at this point, a shooting war.

I honestly think Seattle is gone. At least for a time. Perhaps the occupiers of CHAZ-CHOP will lay down their placards and just mumble and shuffle away. But perhaps they won’t.

One thing we do know: the will doesn’t exist, at this point, to bring it back. Not by local or state government. And again I emphasize: give them what they want.

I don’t think that, short of all-out CQB — Close Quarters Battle — you could “take back” Seattle. These people are armed. Let just one “protester” get shot, armed or not — and woe be to the person who happens to shoot an armed or unarmed black “protester,” you’d see this country light up for weeks on end again.

The only way to take Seattle back is with military force, long gun pitched CQB in the midst of civilian Americans.

Guaranteed, that will kill Trump’s chance, Biden will win, and even if Seattle is subdued, it will be given back to Antifa.

Because if you send rivers of blood down the storm drains of a major American city, guaranteed, there will be a civil war. And not just a war of words. I mean an all-out, fighting war with hundreds or perhaps thousands of Americans killed.

It’s not worth the time or effort for anything Leftist. And certainly not 6 blocks or 3 blocks in Seattle.

They want squalor and chaos? Let them eat it.

BZ

 

 

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“A million deaths is a statistic.”
— Josef Stalin

Put it another way.

A single death in a nursing facility is a tragedy.
Three to eight thousand deaths in nursing facilities, of Wuhan-19, is a statistic.

Let me cut to the chase up front.

In my opinion, New York state Governor Andrew Cuomo has blood on his hands.

Why would that be?

For taking the most virulent global pandemic disease of 2020 and placing people infected with same — not just “suggesting” but mandating it with the force of the entire state of New York behind said mandate — and no, not “placing” but forcibly injecting people, into nursing facilities within the state of New York.

Facilities that couldn’t say no.

The elderly, the infirm — those very same persons, who in their early years, had worked hard in order to allow New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo to attain his exalted position and stand upon their work (as in: Governor Cuomo, you didn’t build that, they did.), their grief, their tears, their labor and sweat in order to obtain his current position.

Those people. Who paid their taxes, paid their dues, obeyed the laws, built ships, flew planes, poured concrete, laid bricks, fixed cars, took care of children, started small businesses, repaired toilets, constructed skyscrapers, drove locomotives, dug ditches, stitched wounds, designed clothes, conducted brain surgery, repaired broken windshields, replaced HVAC systems, knitted socks, changed diapers, and fought wars for America, serving their nation, serving their communities.

And those people who, now, in their later years, those infirm, those who require the greatest amount of care, those who did in fact pay every bill, honor every debt required of them, the most vulnerable, the weakest amongst us, the most susceptible to disease, the least able to fight back physically, genetically and psychologically — found themselves placed directly into harm’s way by an individual who knew better.

And I’ll prove it. Work with me here.

First, we know that Wuhan-19 deaths are being padded. For money. That is to say, three times the federal cash paid for a Wuhan-19 death as opposed to any other.

Clear thinking people should already have all the bells and klaxons going off in their heads about information surrounding Wuhan-19.

First, we knew that New York was over its head. It couldn’t begin to cope with what was before its very eyes

New York was told to prepare. But it decided to ignore its own study. From the NYPost.com:

We didn’t have to have ventilator shortage — leaders chose not to prep for pandemic

by Betsy McCaughey, 3-19-20

Several years ago, after learning that the Empire State’s stockpile of medical equipment had 16,000 fewer ventilators than the 18,000 New Yorkers would need in a severe pandemic, state public-health leaders came to a fork in the road.

They could have chosen to buy more ventilators to back up the supplies hospitals maintain. ­Instead, the health commissioner, Howard Zucker, assembled a task force for rationing the ventilators they already had.

In 2015, that task force came up with rules that will be imposed when ventilators run short. ­Patients assigned a red code will have highest access, and other ­patients will be assigned green, yellow or blue (the worst), ­depending on a “triage officer’s” decision.

Who was governor of the State of New York in 2015? Correct. Andrew Cuomo.

In 2015, the state could have purchased the additional 16,000 needed ventilators for $36,000 apiece, or a total of $576 million. It’s a lot of money, but in hindsight, spending half a percent of the budget to prepare for pandemic was the right thing to do.

This wasn’t Trump’s purvey. He wasn’t even president. Only one person: Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo then blamed the president for not providing a sufficient amount of ventilators to help NY state residents.

But in New York, rationing ventilators should be unnecessary. The state knew of the shortage, had the money and should have bought the lifesaving equipment, instead of making a plan for who should live or die. A lesson for the future.

New York was overwhelmed. But they had warning. They chose to ignore the warning. They were unprepared. They could have decided to be prepared. They chose not to. That was an active, affirmative decision; not a passive one. There were consequences. President Trump had absolutely nothing to do with those decisions.

Here’s one example, from the NYPost.com:

Dozens of bodies found in U-Haul trucks outside NYC funeral home

by Larry Celona, 4-29-20

Police found dozens of bodies being stored in unrefrigerated trucks outside a Brooklyn funeral home and lying on the facility’s floor Wednesday, law enforcement sources told The Post.

Between 40 and 60 bodies were discovered either stacked up in U-Haul box trucks outside Andrew Cleckley Funeral Services in Flatlands or on the building’s floor, after neighbors reported a foul odor around the property, sources said.

The corpses were stacked on top of each other in the trucks. Fluid leaking from inside created a terrible smell and caused neighboring store owners to call the police, according to sources.

We heard, then, the resulting plaintive cry from this women when she discovered her own reality. Again from NYPost.com:

Woman slams de Blasio after relative’s body left at home for hours

by Sara Dorn, 4-18-20

A grieving Harlem food truck owner was forced to ice her husband’s corpse Saturday as she searched for someone to retrieve his body, several hours after he died from suspected coronavirus.

Tami Treadwell, 57, slammed the city after Gregory Anthony Treadwell’s remains were left in the home by emergency responders, with the city medical examiner’s office telling her it could take “three hours to three days” to pick them up.

“This is our city, and we’re being treated like s–t!” wailed Treadwell, owner of Harlem Seafood Soul.

“It’s grossly inhumane. I say shame on you Mayor de Blasio … you got to designate somebody to come get these bodies out of here, people who died at home. How dare you make us have to deal with that and to live with the body for days? How dare you, Mayor de Blasio? And you can’t blame that s–t on Trump. You can’t blame that s–t on Cuomo!” Treadwell cried.

Now let’s get specific. On April 14th, Governor Cuomo said nursing homes are the “optimal feeding ground for the virus.”

Governor Cuomo knew this. It is archived on the internet via, for example, this NYDailyNews.com story:

Cuomo calls nursing homes a ‘feeding frenzy’ for coronavirus as 540 die in New York

by Dave Goldiner, 4-18-20

Gov. Cuomo called nursing homes the biggest concern for New York authorities battling the coronavirus pandemic on Saturday even as a lower overall total of 540 people died in the past day.

The relatively lower death toll represents a dip of more than 25% from just a few days ago. But the governor said the still-raging epidemic claimed 36 elderly victims in nursing homes — and still poses a dire threat.

“Nursing homes are the single biggest fear in all of this,” he said. “Vulnerable people in one place, it is the feeding frenzy for this virus.”

“Nursing homes are the No. 1 long term consequence of this disease,” he added.

Knowing this, saying this, what did New York state Governor Andrew Cuomo decide to do? Correct. Force nursing facilities to accept Wuhan-19 patients in their March 25th policy.

Newsday.com reported:

Nursing homes can’t reject patients just over coronavirus, state says

by Joan Gralfa, 3-29-20

New York State’s nursing homes cannot reject newly released hospital patients solely because they tested positive for the novel coronavirus, a new state directive says.

The order raised concern in an industry whose elderly and frail residents have the lowest survival rate for the disease.

The state health department issued the new directive, which the nursing home industry says is a first, late Wednesday. “No resident shall be denied readmission or admission to the [nursing home] solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19,” the directive reads.

Hospitals are under pressure to discharge patients, including ones stricken with the coronavirus but who don’t need ventilators, to open up beds for what Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo says will be a surge of thousands more cases in the next two to four weeks. However, nursing homes, whose workforce is struggling with problems like those in hospitals — arranging child care and managing a shortage of supplies like protective garb — fear their facilities will be overwhelmed.

Governor Cuomo himself told facilities they had to accept Wuhan-19 patients. From NYPost.com:

Nursing homes have ‘no right’ to reject coronavirus patients, Cuomo says

by Bernadette Hogan and Bruce Golding, 4-23-20

New York’s nursing homes weren’t allowed to challenge a controversial order to admit patients with the coronavirus, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday — even though it’s been blamed for spreading the deadly disease among residents.

“They don’t have a right to object. That is the rule and that is the regulation and they have to comply with that,” Cuomo said during his daily briefing in Albany.

“And the regulation is common sense: if you can’t provide adequate care, you can’t have the patient in your facility and that’s your basic fiduciary obligation — I would say, ethical obligation — and it’s also your legal obligation.”

That wasn’t enough. Governor Andrew Cuomo decided to demand more compliance, as this New York Post article indicates:

Cuomo doubles down on ordering nursing homes to admit coronavirus patients

by Kate Sheehy, 4-26-20

Gov. Cuomo doubled down Sunday on the state’s controversial directive ordering nursing homes to admit COVID-19 patients.

The governor — who himself has described nursing homes as a “feeding frenzy’’ for the deadly coronavirus — said that the facilities can’t challenge a state regulation forcing them to admit patients with the contagion.

Well wait. Cuomo said, Wuhan-19 will sweep through nursing facilities like a whirlwind. He believed it. He said it. He knew it. Yet he made the statement, demanding it continue to occur. So yes, Governor Cuomo knew precisely what he was doing, and was aware of every movement regarding New York State nursing facilities.

The CEO of a hard-hit Brooklyn nursing home, where 55 patients have died from the coronavirus, told The Post last week that he’d been warning state Health Department officials for weeks he had staffing and equipment issues — yet received little help.

“There is no way for us to prevent the spread under these conditions,’’ the head of the Cobble Hill Health Center, Donny Tuchman, wrote in an e-mail to the department on April 8.

But here’s the crux of the biscuit.

He said he asked to move some patients to the makeshift wards at Manhattan’s Javits Center and aboard the city-docked USNS Comfort amid the pandemic, only to be told those two spots were receiving only patients from hospitals.

“I made specific requests to transfer patients, and it didn’t happen,’’ Tuchman told The Post. “There weren’t options.”

Hospital facilities built quickly on the order of President Trump. An entire military ship, one of only two in existence, devoted solely to New York City. Ignored. Unused. Torn down. Sailed away for “lack of need.”

Yet the “need” somehow continued to be to “place fiery, virulent Wuhan-19 virus patients into the closed buildings of those persons with the least capacity to fight said virus.”

In direct contravention of federal laws. From the TimesUnion.com:

Medicare chief: Cuomo’s nursing home order did not follow federal guidelines

by Emilie Munson, 5-29-20

WASHINGTON — The federal government’s top official overseeing nursing homes said Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s executive order in late March that directed the admittance of coronavirus patients from hospitals to nursing facilities did not follow her agency’s guidance.

Cuomo has insisted that his original order regarding nursing homes was aligned with the Trump administration’s policy, but Seema Verma, head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said Wednesday that’s not the case.

We see what’s building here, don’t we? A case?

“Under no circumstances should a hospital discharge a patient to a nursing home that is not prepared to take care of those patients’ needs,” Verma said on Fox News Radio. “The federal guidelines are absolutely clear about this.”

New York nursing homes have reported about 6,000 confirmed or presumed COVID-19 deaths, as of May 27, the most recent data available.

We see already, what Governor Cuomo is going to say soon, don’t we?

Cuomo’s March 25 nursing home order did not specifically say that nursing homes should only accept recovering coronavirus patients if they were safely able to do so, a talking point he has been making repeatedly in recent weeks. The order said “all NHs must comply with the expedited receipt of residents returning from hospitals to NHs. Residents are deemed appropriate for return to a NH upon a determination by the hospital physician or designee that the resident is medically stable for return.”

It emphasized: “No resident shall be denied re-admission or admission to the NH solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19.”

Already Governor Cuomo was saying “hey, it wasn’t me. I wasn’t responsible.”

Cuomo defended his actions on May 23, saying, “What New York did was follow what the Republican administration said to do. … Don’t criticize the state for following the president’s policy.”

Except he was responsible. And he knew what he did. Only after things went very badly did he begin his political backpedal.

The policy prompted severe backlash against the Cuomo administration as COVID-19 cases spread rampantly among seniors in nursing homes, causing many deaths. Then, on May 10, Cuomo revised this policy, ordering nursing homes to only accept hospital patients who have tested negative for coronavirus into their facilities.

Nursing facilities in New York weren’t ready. They weren’t prepared with appropriately-trained staff. They didn’t have the requisite equipment. But that didn’t matter to Governor Cuomo. Equipment? He wasn’t going to assist them. From the NYPost.com:

Gov. Cuomo says ‘it’s not our job’ to provide PPE to nursing homes

by Bernadette Hogan, Bruce Golding and Carl Campanite, 4-22-20

Gov. Andrew Cuomo insisted that “it’s not our job” to provide coronavirus-ravaged nursing homes with personal protective equipment — even as more than 3,000 patients have lost their lives in facilities ordered by his administration to take in COVID-19 patients.

“We have been helping them with more PPE but, again, it’s not our job,” Cuomo said Wednesday during his daily briefing in Albany.

Pressed on why coronavirus patients were not kept out of the facilities, which treat the elderly and other vulnerable populations, Cuomo insisted that the state regulated, but did not “run,” New York’s privately owned nursing homes.

“You’ll be out of business if you’re not providing your staff with the right equipment. You’re out of business. That we can do,” he said of state regulations.

I see a trend. Governor Andrew Cuomo makes the active decision to place Wuhan-19 patients in New York nursing facilities, where the weakest live in small, enclosed spaces. He doubles down on that demand. They chides these facilities for not ponying up their own PPE or Personal Protective Equipment — or, as he states, he’ll gladly assist with closing their businesses.

The situation in New York was a warning — one that was clearly heard by an administrator in Pennsylvania, who took “her” own mother out of a nursing facility. After making the same order as New York Governor Cuomo. “Do as I say, not as I do. Only the little people need obey me.”

From the DailyCaller.com:

PA Health Secretary Moved Mother Out Of Personal Care Home After Ordering Nursing Homes To Accept COVID Patients

by Peter Hasson, 5-13-20

Pennsylvania Health Secretary Rachel Levine’s mother moved out of a personal care home with the health secretary’s help, after Levine ordered all nursing homes and long-term facilities in the state to accept coronavirus patients from hospitals.

Levine admitted Tuesday to moving the 95-year-old Pennsylvania resident out of her personal care home, which is similar to an assisted living facility although technically distinct.

“Good for thee, not for me.”

“My mother requested, and my sister and I as her children complied to move her to another location during the COVID-19 outbreak,” Levine said. The health secretary’s admission came after local station ABC27 found out about the move.

Translated: unless discovered, Levin was never going to tell anyone what “she” had done. Lying by omission. Purposely. Consciousness of guilt. Remember that phrase.

Levine is facing calls to resign over the department’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak.

“Our secretary of health, Dr. Levine, decided that it would be good to allow COVID-positive patients to be returned to elder-care facilities. And as a result of that, it broke out like fire,” Republican state Sen. Doug Mastriano said Monday at a rally calling for Levine’s resignation.

Imagine that. Should Governor Cuomo be any exception?

So what happened? FoxNews.com reported:

Over 4,300 virus patients sent to NY nursing homes, AP counts

by Bernard Condon, Jennifer Peltz and Jim Mustian, 5-22-20

More than 4,300 recovering coronavirus patients were sent to New York’s already vulnerable nursing homes under a controversial state directive that was ultimately scrapped amid criticisms it was accelerating the nation’s deadliest outbreaks, according to a count by The Associated Press.

AP compiled its own tally to find out how many COVID-19 patients were discharged from hospitals to nursing homes under the March 25 directive after New York’s Health Department declined to release its internal survey conducted two weeks ago. It says it is still verifying data that was incomplete.

Whatever the full number, nursing home administrators, residents’ advocates and relatives say it has added up to a big and indefensible problem for facilities that even Gov. Andrew Cuomo — the main proponent of the policy — called “the optimum feeding ground for this virus.”

As I mentioned earlier, weren’t there alternative locations available for Wuhan-19 patients besides nursing facilities? Of course there were. Some were never even used. From the NYPost.com:

$21M Brooklyn field hospital never saw a patient amid coronavirus pandemic

by Carl Campanile and Natalie Musumeci, 5-22-20

A roughly $21 million Brooklyn field hospital authorized by the de Blasio administration at the height of the coronavirus pandemic opened and closed without ever seeing one patient, according to city officials.

The Brooklyn Cruise Terminal in Red Hook was one of several sites across the five boroughs converted into a medical facility as a way to relieve the city’s overburdened hospital system as the COVID-19 crisis mounted.

Mayor Bill de Blasio announced plans on Mar. 31 — a day after the USNS Comfort hospital ship arrived in New York Harbor to aid in the coronavirus fight — for the $20.8 million Red Hook field hospital with an estimated capacity for 750 beds.

The field hospital was built by Texas-based construction company SLSCO.

The USS Comfort was also available, but unused. But now the pressure begins to build. FoxNews.com reported:

Coronavirus: Amid New York’s unused hospital beds and ventilators, critics point to mass waste and mismanagement

by Holly McKay, 5-1-20

While New York has weathered the brunt of coronavirus infections and deaths, the state’s apparent hoarding of medical supplies, and the millions spent on equipment that never arrived, as well as unused hospitals and beds, have some questioning what went wrong.

Early to mid-March projections of the spread of COVID-19 had the state scrambling to bolster its hospital bed capacity to more than double its 53,000 maximum status-quo. Subsequently, hospitals statewide were ordered to discharge patients to free up beds, and forced to add new ones as non-emergency procedures were canceled.

Knowing all that, Governor Cuomo had a decision to make. But he knew what the outcome would be, inserting a hot virus into populations of the weakest New York citizens. Wouldn’t a normal individual with common sense realize that?

But read this now, from the same story.

Meanwhile, nursing home managers have been left bewildered as to why the empty facilities were not made available for ill and suspect coronavirus patients, who were not able to be aptly isolated from others deemed vulnerable to severe infection or death.

In April, coronavirus patients at a Brooklyn nursing home were denied admission to both of the medical facilities established in New York to handle victims of the pandemic even though beds were mostly empty. The snub, as highlighted by the New York Post, came weeks after New York health officials were warned by the nursing home operator – where 55 people have died – that there was a grave concern, and requesting patients be transferred to the temporary facilities.

New York nursing homes have accounted for 13 percent of the state’s coronavirus death toll, according to the state’s health department figures.

Oh, but it’s much worse than that. We’ll see. The death counts continued to build. From the NYPost.com:

Over 1,700 more coronavirus deaths reported in New York nursing homes

by Carl Campanile, Bernadette Hogan and Aaron Feis, 5-5-20

The coronavirus’ suspected death toll among New York’s nursing home residents exploded by an additional 1,700 fatalities — as Gov. Andrew Cuomo caught bipartisan backlash Tuesday for his administration’s edict that the facilities take in COVID-19 patients.

The grim tally surged to at least 4,813 late Monday as the state Department of Health disclosed for the first time not just confirmed coronavirus deaths, but fatalities in which the deceased was never tested despite showing telltale symptoms, which also sparked outrage.

A spokesman for the Health Department pinned the delay in factoring in the suspected deaths on shoddy work by overwhelmed nursing homes.

“The numbers we are presenting as part of our review capture confirmed and presumed coronavirus deaths that many facilities were not previously reporting,” said Gary Holmes.

The numbers. Yes, the numbers.

Sources told The Post, however, that even the revised figure fails to capture the true scope of the horror, because stricken nursing home residents who die in hospitals are not counted towards the healthcare facilities’ tallies released Tuesday.

Cuomo attempted to undercut his own Health Department by casting skepticism on the figures during a Tuesday press briefing in Manhattan.

“Just to be clear, I would take all of these numbers with a grain of salt,” the governor told reporters in his Midtown office.

“What does a ‘presumed death’ mean, right? How do you presume it to be the coronavirus?”

Cuomo scoffed at the stats as they sparked a renewed barrage of criticism over his handling of nursing homes amid the pandemic.

Cuomo scoffed. The bodies piled up. Your mother, your father, your parents, your grandparents.

Journalist Glenn Greenwald wrote on May 2nd:

I don’t think there are easy or pat answers to how civil liberties should be balanced with the outbreak of this new, lethal, highly contagious virus. But what’s worrisome is that there is no balancing going on: it’s full, unlimited, absolute authority in the hands of governors.

But the heat was on and Governor Andrew Cuomo was the focus. So Cuomo made a public statement. From CBSNews.com:

Cuomo says no one should be prosecuted for coronavirus deaths in New York, including those in nursing homes

by Caroline Linton, 5-18-20

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Sunday addressed the state’s early response to the coronavirus outbreak and said “nobody” should be prosecuted for the those who died, noting that “older people” were most vulnerable. The governor has been criticized for a decision in March, which has since been reversed, to send patients back to nursing homes after they tested positive for COVID-19.

Isn’t that convenient, since the focus was now on him? And could Governor Andrew Cuomo have been any more dismissive? Consciousness of guilt. His guilt.

But wait; there’s more. It gets better. From FoxNews.com:

Cuomo granted immunity to nursing home executives, after big-money campaign donation: report

by Adam Shaw, 5-27-20

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who signed legislation granting hospital and nursing home executives immunity from lawsuits related to the novel coronavirus last month, previously received a big-money boost from a powerful health care industry group, according to a new report.

An article published on the socialist website Jacobin, and re-published by The Guardian, reports that the New York State Democratic Committee, then backing Cuomo’s primary run in 2018, received more than $1 million from the Greater New York Hospital Association (GNYHA) — a lobbying group for hospital systems, some of which own nursing homes.

Correct. More people died in New York nursing facilities than died on September 11th.

Because if Governor Cuomo couldn’t hold himself accountable, how could he hold the nursing facilities accountable? Big money folks, big money. Big donations. $2.3 million dollars.

REVEALED: Governor Cuomo quietly gave legal immunity to nursing home executives from coronavirus lawsuits after raking in $2.3 million in campaign cash from the industry

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo took in $2.3 million in campaign cash from the hospital and nursing home industry before signing legislation to provide legal immunity to healthcare executives in the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new report.

Cuomo quietly signed legislation last month shielding hospital and nursing home executives from the threat of lawsuits stemming from the pandemic, in a provision inserted into the annual budget, the Guardian reported. 

We already knew this as of April 23rd.

Coronavirus deaths at US nursing homes, long-term facilities reach over 10,000

by Joshua Miller, 4-23-20

Coronavirus-linked fatalities at nursing homes and other long-term care facilities in the US have surpassed 10,000 — with the highest tally in New York, according to a troubling new report.

A survey by the Wall Street Journal published Wednesday found at least 10,700 fatalities among 35 states that either submit data online or responded to information requests.

The highest total — 3,505 — was reported in New York, according to the outlet.

The MinotDailyNews asked:

Who sent COVID-19 positive patients into nursing homes?

by Michael Barone, 5-20-20

One-third of reported coronavirus deaths in the United States, according to New York Times reporting, are of nursing home residents or workers. Nursing homes accounted for a majority of deaths in heavily hit states like New Jersey (52%), Massachusetts (59%), Pennsylvania (66%) and Connecticut (55%), and for 80% of the deaths in otherwise lightly hit Minnesota.

When asked about his (nursing home) policy in late April, Governor Andrew Cuomo professed ignorance. Two weeks later, on May 9, after 46 days in effect, he reversed it.

New York wasn’t the only state that insisted on placing infected patients in nursing homes. New Jersey’s policy was similar, explicitly barring homes from requiring testing before admitting patients. California had the same policy but dropped it after 10 days.

Michael Goodwin wrote in the NYPost.com:

Blame governors for the coronavirus deaths in nursing homes: Goodwin

An article in Nowhere Magazine several years ago explored the ways ancient cultures dispatched the elderly, a practice known as senicide. Author Justin Nobel recounted several gruesome rites that made the Inuit habit of putting Granny on an Arctic ice floe seem humane.

At one point, Nobel mentioned that his own grandparents had moved “to a fancy nursing home in the suburbs of New York City.”

That made me shudder.

If they are honest, historians judging the American experience during the coronavirus pandemic will excoriate our barbaric failure to protect the elderly. We think of ourselves as civilized, but mindless policies and bureaucratic indifference turned many nursing homes and rehabilitation centers into killing fields.

At least 28,000 residents and workers in long-term care facilities already have died from the ­virus, according to a New York Times analysis done more than a week ago. That represented one out of every three COVID-19 deaths recorded in the United States at the time and was likely an undercount because of reporting lags and varying state methods.

Read this:

The states with the most nursing-home deaths, New York and New Jersey, didn’t make the list because of so many other deaths, yet more than 10,000 people died in their facilities. The 5,500 nursing-home deaths in New York are more than the total deaths in all other states except New Jersey.

Despite the surging death count, Cuomo defended his directive for more than six weeks. He reversed himself only last Sunday, ruling that patients must test negative before hospitals can send them to nursing homes. Yet he insisted that the initial policy “worked.”

If more than 5,000 dead was success, what would failure look like?

Cuomo’s reversal included forcing nursing homes to test staff and administrators twice a week, at the homes’ own expense. There was no explanation why testing was not required all along, or how it would work when labs say they cannot process the needed 410,000 weekly tests.

Blame governors, not Trump. You know, the same people who are blaming President Trump.

If that wasn’t clear enough, Goodwin also wrote:

This nursing home disaster is on you, Gov. Cuomo: Goodwin

Two weeks ago, Gov. ­Andrew Cuomo was first asked about his policy that forced nursing homes to admit ­patients infected with the coronavirus.

“That’s a good question, I don’t know,” the governor answered, turning to an aide.

On Tuesday, Cuomo was asked about a report from the Associated Press that his team had added more than 1,700 deaths to the count of those who died in nursing homes, bringing the total to at least 4,813.

“I don’t know the details, frankly,” the governor answered, turning to an aide.

Whose responsibility is it? Trump’s?

So with known nursing home deaths representing 25 percent of all deaths in the state, it beggars belief that the governor didn’t know anything about his office’s fatal policy two weeks ago or the new death totals now.

The only way either could be true is through an extreme case of plausible deniability. Thus, if there’s no proof he knew, he can’t be held responsible, right? Which was the whole point of the Sgt. Schultz defense.

That was a sitcom. This is life and death.

Then this.

Two other things Cuomo said Tuesday also bear remembering. First, he allowed that “we did some very harsh things” to nursing homes that “frankly, I wasn’t comfortable with.” He then cited the order barring visitors for the last two months.

It was indeed harsh, especially for the families who never saw their loved ones again before the virus killed them. By the same token, those families want to know why in the world the state would bar them from nursing homes but simultaneously impose infected patients on the same facilities.

It wasn’t President Trump, who was responsible for the New York nursing facility catastrophe. It was Governor Andrew Cuomo.

Now the stats are coming in. From Forbes.com:

The Most Important Coronavirus Statistic: 42% Of U.S. Deaths Are From 0.6% Of The Population

by Avik Roy, 5-26-20

Americans are vigorously debating the merits of continuing to lock down the U.S. economy to prevent the spread of COVID-19. A single statistic may hold the key to resolving this debate: the astounding share of deaths occurring in nursing homes and assisted living facilities.

Nursing homes and assisted living facilities: The #1 COVID problem

2.1 million Americans, representing 0.62% of the U.S. population, reside in nursing homes and assisted living facilities. (Nursing homes are residences for seniors needing help with activities of daily living, such as taking a shower or getting dressed, who also require 24/7 medical supervision; assisted living facilities are designed for seniors who need help with activities of daily living, but don’t require full-time on-site medical supervision.)

According to an analysis that Gregg Girvan and I conducted for the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, as of May 22, in the 43 states that currently report such figures, an astounding 42% of all COVID-19 deaths have taken place in nursing homes and assisted living facilities.

Let’s look at that again.

As of May 22, in the 43 states that currently report such figures, an astounding 42% of all COVID-19 deaths have taken place in nursing homes and assisted living facilities.

And you couldn’t see that a captive audience, like nursing facilities in your state, were the very last place you should have purposely inserted a terrible virus?

Over TEN THOUSAND people killed, who could have been here today. The bulk of them killed in New York and New Jersey nursing facilities.

We also got this:

Report: Man who beat elderly veteran was diagnosed with coronavirus, quarantined into nursing home

Jaydon Hayden, 20 years old, filmed himself punching multiple elderly people repeatedly until they bled at the Westwood Nursing Center.

The man in the video that went viral was a 75-year-old United States Veteran.

We have discovered that Hayden was only brought to the nursing home last week, and he was staying there because he was diagnosed with COVID-19.

If that doesn’t make sense to you, you’re not alone.

Hayden’s father spoke to the local news station Fox2. He said that Hayden has mental health issues, including autism, and severe behavioral issues, and while he does box, he’s normally not vicious. 

His father (who wished to not be identified) said that Hayden called him from the group home he’s living at to say that he wasn’t sleeping well, was hearing voices, and was feeling anxious.

Last week, he went to a mental health facility in Ann Arbor. While there, he was diagnosed with the virus and workers told his father they were taking him to another facility to quarantine.

His father said that Hayden should not have been taken to the nursing home and he would not have consented if he knew that’s where they were taking him.

So a man with a history of mental problems, because he also had Wuhan-19, was placed in a Detroit nursing facility.

Who does that? Why do people no longer think things through? And then who says, in retrospect, “well, you know, old people die. Get over it.”

Then this from NY1.com:

Why the Extent of Coronavirus Carnage in New York’s Nursing Homes May Never be Known

by Michael Herzenberg, 5-28-20

BRONX, N.Y. – The coronavirus death toll in nursing homes and adult care facilities in New York State has now exceeded 6,000.

Residents have been especially vulnerable to COVID-19 and advocates say we still don’t have a true picture of just how many residents of these facilities have died in New York.

Six thousand. Twice the 9-11 death toll. And it could have been avoided by not making an affirmative decision by Governor Andrew Cuomo to place people with Wuhan-19 into nursing facilities, places having the least-trained staff, the least amount of appropriate equipment, and the most vulnerable persons in the entire state to a red-hot virus.

“Every time you turned around somebody was dying,” said Sharon Anderson, a resident of Bronxwood Assisted Living, an adult care facility in the Williamsbridge section of the Bronx. 

Anderson said she was kept in the dark as the coronavirus swept through the building and took the lives of fellow residents.

“They don’t even want you to ask questions about these people and if you ask, they don’t tell you,” said Anderson.

She is one of the first residents of a local adult care facility to speak publicly about what it was like as the coronavirus toll around her mounted.

But it’s not just residents left without information.

Advocates and lawyers say the state’s accounting at Nursing Homes and Adult Care Facility deaths, which now stands at 6,035, remains an incomplete picture of what has happened to residents of the facilities.

Finally:

Initially, the state only counted residents who tested positive for COVID-19 and died at the facility.  Then it added to the tally residents who only had a suspected case and died.

But the state is not including in these figures adult care facility residents who were transferred to a hospital and died of the coronavirus there. The Health Department says that’s “to maintain consistency and reliability in the data as presented, and to avoid any potential for double-counting.”

However, nursing home and elder abuse attorney John Dalli explains the state’s tally of 6,035 nursing home deaths is not accurate.

“I would suspect that number is probably somewhere around ten to fifteen percent higher than that and it could be more. It’s just too difficult to tell,” Dalli said.

The human toll is real. Meterologist Janice Dean lost both of her in-laws to the Wuhan-19 virus invading their nursing facility.

From FoxNews.com:

Janice Dean slams Cuomo nursing home policy after losing in-laws to COVID-19: ‘Not just numbers on a curve’

by Yael Halon, 5-21-20

Fox News senior meteorologist Janice Dean told “Tucker Carlson Tonight” Thursday that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo‘s failed nursing home policy should be “one of the biggest” stories of the year after both of her parents-in-law lost their lives to the coronavirus.

“I have not seen the coverage of this … ,” an emotional Dean said. “Twenty percent of our lost loved ones are from nursing homes … because Governor Cuomo and several other governors forced COVID-recovering patients into nursing homes.”

There is no sign on New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s desk saying THE BUCK STOPS HERE. The buck simply passes through.

Cuomo essentially sent death into nursing homes containing the MOST VULNERABLE and LEAST ABLE to fight the virus, a population EVERYONE AGREES should be the MOST PROTECTED, staffed by the LEAST EQUIPPED to battle Wuhan-19.

We couldn’t protect the most vulnerable. Simultaneously, the least vulnerable in our society were themselves locked down. What do you do in a pandemic? You quarantine and keep safe the most infirm, those most susceptible.

You don’t quarantine the healthy.

Yes, a single death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic. Or at least 6,000 + deaths in the state of New York.

BZ

 

 

 

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D-Day: 76 years ago today

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Completely forgotten in all of the US politically-correct, virtue-signaling insanity is what “white people” did on this day — not just for the United States, but for the entire planet. They stepped up. Some had choices. Most didn’t. Some accounted well of themselves. Some cried like babies and, yes, called for their mommies while they died bleeding, missing a leg, an arm, part of their jaw, bits of their brain on the beach covered by the lapping tide. But they still stepped up.

I mention color only because color means everything to Leftists, Demorats and the American Media Maggots these days. Some people require “reminding” about color.

D-Day was the beginning of the end for the Germans in World War II.

Seventy-six years ago today.

Named Operation Overlord, the battle began on June 6, 1944, and was also known as D-Day.

What did D-Day mean?

D for Day, H for Hour means the undetermined (or secret) day and hour for the start of a military operation. Their use permits the entire timetable for the operation to be scheduled in detail and its various steps prepared by subordinate commanders long before a definite day and time for the attack have been set. When the day and time are fixed, subordinates are so informed.

So far as the U.S. Army can determine, the first use of D for Day, H for Hour was in Field Order No. 8, of the First Army, A.E.F., issued on Sept. 7, 1918, which read: “The First Army will attack at H–Hour on D-Day with the object of forcing the evacuation of the St. Mihiel salient.”

More than 160,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast, by Germany, of France’s Normandy region.

Supreme Allied Commander Eisenhower speaks to the troops.

The invasion was one of the largest amphibious military assaults in the history of the planet, and required heretofore unthinkable planning. How to coordinate something this large? Amongst numerous nations? Whilst trying to calculate weather and hundreds of other factors?

Churchill and Montgomery calculate the UK portion of D-Day.

Prior to D-Day, the Allies conducted a large-scale deception campaign designed to mislead the Germans about the intended invasion target. By late August 1944, all of northern France had been liberated, and by the following spring the Allies had defeated the Germans. The Normandy landings have been called the beginning of the end of war in Europe. And that is true.

Landscape

Go or no go? That was all up to one man. The Supreme Allied Commander, four-star General Dwight D Eisenhower. At the age of 54, he held the freedom, the fate of the entire planet, in his hands.

As an aside, Eisenhower received his fifth star as General of the Army of December 20th of 1944.

How many 5-star generals have there been in the history of the United States?

That would be five Army and four Navy officers:

  • George C. Marshall,
  • Douglas MacArthur,
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower,
  • Henry H. (Hap) Arnold,
  • Omar Bradley,

And then Admirals:

  • William D. Leahy,
  • Ernest J. King,
  • Chester Nimitz, and
  • William F. Halsey.

Omar Bradley was the last officer to receive the rank, in 1950. The rank has remained dormant ever since.

According to military regulations governing rank, only two US Army officers have ever achieved superior rank to that of five stars, even though they never got that many. They were George Washington and John J. Pershing.

And here is General Eisenhower’s D-Day message.

As per normal, fanciful flights of ephemera shape history and, instead of June 5th, Eisenhower determined to wait a day. That timing — and location of the landings — surprised the Germans, and they failed to reinforce the beachheads.

Upon that, and more, is history built.

Conjecture. Fleet. Fancy. Whimsy. Or just plain hope backed with a modicum of planning.

Do I stay or do I go?

4,414 soldiers died on D-Day. Most perished on those meat-grinding beaches.

That was the beginning. Of the end.

Of the Germans and the European Theater.

Japan was next.

You want courage, sacrifice and discipline?

Everything we’re facing now pales in comparison to that.

Everything.

BZ

 

 

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