The rush to get back to normal is disrespectful to vulnerable populations, including my people — seniors
“Sacrifice the weak, reopen,” said a protest sign in Tennessee.
It’s no accident that nursing homes — with too few supplies and resources for patients and employees — have become killing fields in a nation that has underfunded public health and failed to provide proper state and federal oversight of profiteering eldercare companies. We geezers are seen as expendable.I’d like to think those who are saying we have to choose between returning to work and saving lives — as if we can’t do both — are in a minority.
I exaggerate a bit, sure. But the pandemic is bringing out our best instincts and our worst, as well.As I’ve said in the past, I think we need to prioritize health spending, and I question the wisdom of using every medical procedure available to keep terminally ill people alive only so they can suffer a little longer.
“I feel that we live in a society where youth and beauty are always” idealized, said Akila Gibbs, executive director of the Pasadena Senior Center, which is checking up regularly on 3,000 of its most isolated members and delivering 160 to 170 meals daily to those in need.“Because government calls Social Security an entitlement,” Gibbs said, “I think it sends the message that older adults are weighing down the economy.
They want it now even though there’s still not enough testing or tracing, there’s still no cure or vaccine, and we haven’t met the sensible conditions for reopening laid out in a rare moment of sanity by President Trump himself.They want it even though a consensus of experts — including Trump’s own advisers — insist that if we move too quickly we will pay in funerals we can’t even attend.
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