Too Late Gov Half-Whit, Too Late And Too Little By Far

Better late then never doesn't really apply when you've staunchly stood by a series of executive orders that have led to the deaths of thousands of nursing home residents.

Eight months into this crisis, and Governor Half-Whit, without admitting that she has made a series of fatal mistake in doubling down and constantly ordering nursing homes to take in COVID positive patients, has finally started  to do what she should have done from the start - isolate them away from vulnerable nursing home residents and put them in specialized care facilities.

The Detroit News: Gov. Whitmer shifts nursing home policy with 'care and recovery centers'

Note that she still won't go with completely isolated from nursing home treatment centers, but at least she's now ordering they be kept in a distinct area from other residents. 

The governor's executive order doesn't appear to adopt the idea of separate facilities promoted by lawmakers. The new "care and recovery centers" must "designate a distinct area for COVID-19 isolation," "dedicate staff" to the area and meet other standards, according to a bulletin issued Wednesday by the state health department. They must have a "designated wing, separate unit or separate building," the bulletin adds.

Let's note that this effort is still far too little and too late.

We've had the third most deaths per capita in the US, and its been mainly the aged and infirm that have suffered and of those at at least

32% of Michigan's 6,762 COVID-19 deaths have been nursing home residents, according to state data.

Depending on how the data is being calculated and collected, that's likely an under-count as it is potentially just recording deaths in the nursing homes, not those who subsequently died in hospital, but again, the data is unclear and the governor and her bureacrats are keeping it that why while claiming they're using the "best data and best science".

Yes, that's on Gov Half-Whit's head for her pig-headed insistence on continuing to order COVID patients to be placed in nursing homes throughout this pandemic. 

Her continued refusal to cooperate with Federal requests for information on this decision certainly raises a few eyebrows and reeks of a cover-up. 

  If she didn't know it was a bad idea and she was just following along the example of Cuomo in New York,  the governors of New Jersey, PA and MA, she's dumber than a bag of rocks, and her continued actions and doublig down on this failed policy potentially rise to the level of negligent homicide at this point. If she did know, and based on for example the Head of Pennsylvania's Department of Health people making these decision did know what the consequence would be from their order, what she did potentially fits the elements for second degree murder in Michigan.

This half-measure eight months in, after knowingly continuing a failed policy all this time, is again far too little and far too late for thousands of Michigan's seniors.