Here's the problem with hysteria. Remember when the frum community in New York was reporting many deaths and it seemed like the sky was falling? A high percentage were caused by government overreach. (A high portion were misrepresented as well, people who had cancer, etc.) Many US states, relying on early predictions of mass COVID-19 casualties, feared the hospitals would be overwhelmed. Thus, they ordered nursing homes to take in Corona patients. As we have learned, the elderly and gravely ill are uniquely susceptible to the disease. The result: By May 13, one-third of reported coronavirus deaths in the United States, according to New York Times reporting, were of nursing home residents or workers. In New Jersey and Connecticut, which had such a policy, half of the deaths were in nursing homes. NY State had over 5,000 nursing home deaths as of May 13. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, widely criticized in the national media for avoiding a total lockdown, zeroed in on nursing homes, encouraging repeated testing and temperature-taking of residents and staff and isolating anyone testing positive. Florida, a state with 2 million more people than New York, had just 714 nursing home deaths, 13% of the number in New York. (Michael Barone, Town Hall, May 15, 2020) See hysteria gives you the feeling you are safe but it really endangers you. We must be objective and fact based and rational.
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