Originally Posted by
Cyio
It wasn’t to stop us from all getting it, it was to stop too many of us from getting it at the same time. Do you even understand what happened? This was a resource management issue they had to balance. Of course herd immunity will eventually happen but we couldn’t have everyone getting sick all at once or else the numbers would have been way worse.
and this was the result of that policy:
Nursing homes now account for more than half of Illinois deaths with a confirmed link to COVID-19, a WBEZ analysis of state data shows.
The Illinois Department of Public Health on Friday afternoon posted data showing that 2,747 — or 52.1% — of the state’s 5,270 coronavirus deaths are tied to long-term-care facilities, assisted-living establishments and other nursing homes.
That percentage has risen every week since April 19, when IDPH began posting the number of COVID-19 deaths and illnesses tied to nursing homes.
Outside the seven-county Chicago metropolitan area, nursing homes account for an even larger majority, 70.2%, of coronavirus deaths, according to WBEZ’s analysis. The non-metro counties with the most nursing-home deaths are St. Clair with 50, Madison, 47; Kankakee, 32; Winnebago, 30; Sangamon, 24 and Rock Island, 21.
Statewide, 25 nursing homes have at least 20 coronavirus deaths each. All but three of those facilities are in the Chicago area.
The nursing home with the state’s highest death count is Meadowbrook Manor of Bolingbrook, a facility with 298 licensed beds about 30 miles southwest of downtown Chicago. Meadowbrook is tied to 40 coronavirus fatalities and 188 cases.
look, I don’t blame you for being ignorant. Nobody knows everything. But I do think you are gullible, and too quick to opine when you don’t have the facts.
But if you think you can explain the rationale for quarantining the most contagious with the most vulnerable, which these states did, go for it. It ought to be interesting at least.