Living On the Diagonal

FAILURE TO FIGHT PANDEMIC IN NURSING HOMES IS LIKE THAT OF DEATH SENTENCE  ONE ARGUMENT IS MEDICARE FUNDING IS A FEDERAL PROGRAM REQUIRING THE PRESIDENT TO TAKE RESPONSIBILTY The number of infections and deaths due to COVID-19 in Nursing Homes, Long Term Care and Correctional facilities has been largely ignored. The numbers are shocking. The most vulnerable of our older population face almost certain death unless action is taken and the States do not have the resources to contain the pandemic.  To their credit the  New York Times   is covering this ongoing story. The Times is engaged in an effort to track infection and death rates in Nursing Homes and Assisted Living centers across the country. They regularly post their findings online.  In a recent article they sounded the alarm as the crisis mounted in the epicenter of New York, New Jersey and now Michigan. In their Sunday edition, The  Detroit Free Press  headline, "Nursing homes...

HISTORY OF AN ATROCITY,  MEXICAN  REPATRIATES AND TODAY THE PRESIDENT IS IGNORANT OF THE LAW AND A HISTORY OF CRUEL IMMIGRATION Trump continues to mislead Americans, obfuscating the nature of the crisis at the Mexican border. His surrogates serve to confound and confuse the  "zero tolerance policy"  and tie it to a "law" that does not exist. Trump seeks to elude all responsibility at any means. The "sero tolerance policy first emerged in a February 2017 meeting  with White House officials and then DHS chief, John Kelly. The policy targeted Latin Americans who illegally gained entry and therefore be subject to family separation. Children are taken from their parents and placed in detention centers. While young children face a lifelong effect of trauma while caged while the parents are deported. Jeff Sessions, Attorney General sees it as upholding the law and this is a method of retaliation as an act of deterrence. It is to serve as a warning for any Latin f...