8/12/2020 CCP Virus Hits Charlotte County Veteren's Nursing Home Hard

In the last week or so, as I have followed the CCP Virus numbers, I have been glad to see the downward trend, both in Florida and in Charlotte County, where we live. But I have been consistent in warning about the virus' devastating im pact on the elderly, especially in nursing homes. The trend may be downward, but this is still the case, and nursing homes are still the tip of the spear, as far as this virus goes.

We have a state veteran's home here in Charlotte County, the Douglas Jacobson State Veteran's Home. In the last couple of weeks the virus has raged through there, infecting (as of yesterday) 34 residents and 20 staff. I know of one resident, a dear friend of dear friends, who's 96, caught the virus there and has been moved to a hospital and then again to a rehab place. This is a D-Day vet who hasn't seen his wife in months and now has been shuffled around with the damned virus like a hot potato. I read that many others from the facility have been moved to the Bay Pines VA Hospital in St. Pete. I've also been told that with the staff having been hit so hard, that Jacobson has had to bring in nurses from other countries to care for the veterans who are still there. It's scary and it's a shame.

So, yeah. I know the numbers are dubious, at best. They're inflated, distorted, twisted, and whatever the opposite of sugar-coated is, too. And I know there is WAY WAY WAY too much politics being played with this thing: schools, other closings, masks, hydroxychloroquine, mandatory vaccination talk, relief packages, unemployment, etc. The left and right are both trying to make everything and anything an issue for November. And, not to be ignored, big pharma, medicine, and insurance companies are milking it for all it's worth financially. Be all that as it may, the virus is still real and the virus is still killing old folks. Some of them, the old codger D-Day vet I told you about, are ready to die just to get this nightmare over with. They've been isolated from loved ones, shuffled around, made sick when before they weren't, and have seen care givers they've come to appreciate and see as their only friends from outside the facility gone not, too, because of the virus.

So feel free to tell me you don't like how it's being handled. I have my own doubts, too. But please stop calling it fake or contrived or a hoax. What's going on in the veteran's nursing homes near you? We should all make it a point to find out.