Alzheimer's patients seemed to be targeted with the lockdowns and visit restrictions.
"In a study of nearly 27 million adults enrolled in Medicare from March through December 2020, deaths among patients with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia surged 26% compared with the same period in 2019. Deaths among Medicare-age patients without the disease increased 12% during the first year of the pandemic, the study found."
I read somewhere that the effect on dementia patients was most acute among those who had regular visitors which makes sense: not seeing their loved ones had to be devastating for them. It's like everything was planned out to do the opposite of what they said: saving grandma by not seeing her was killing her, reducing hospital capacity to flatten the curve may cause the hospitals to collapse. Almost like it was diabolical it planned to maximize destruction
Yes the cabal knew how to target the vulnerable. They knew most facilities before the lockdowns had a minimum level of staffing of nurses and aides to care for the patients so family and friends covered the gaps. With lockdowns, they effectively kept the nurse and aide extenders* away from the facilities. Additionally, they knew some staff would be more likely to call in sick due to the media fear blitz.
*Extenders - unlicensed people who are able to perform some tasks that nurses and/or aides perform.
I've been an extender or what I would call an advocate for my grandmother and my husband when he was in ICU on a ventilator. It was very obvious to me that keeping family away especially with the media screaming "fire!" In a crowded theater was absolutely going to kill people through neglect and painful isolation. I sometimes think the child death rate is so much less from Covid because parents HAD to be there. Nursing staff and doctors are not all seeing all knowing and in possession of Godlike morality like they portray on television. They make snap judgments about who is deserving of care all of the time
The old and fat and later the unjabbed would have been deemed unworthy
One headline in the NYT, saying as much, could really change things. But I guess this 'seeping out from underneath' way will work as well, with much more carnage of course. I am so sorry for the losses to your family. You are a leader. best
What is sometimes infuriating to me is the degree to which Covid disruptions destroyed addicts and recovering addicts almost by design. Pot shops and liquor stores were left open while alcoholics anonymous and faith based recovery groups were deemed unessential. The good things that gave meaning and purpose to many people, which is acutely important to those recovering from addiction, were taken away. Instead they were given free money and all the time in the world to stare at a blank wall. It's sickening...
Most places in America didn't even have in person meetings. As though Zoom is the same. It's good you were able to get out of that cycle. I got really lucky as far as drugs were concerned: I was hanging with a crowd that was very much getting into that stuff. The first time I tried pot at 13 was about my last it made me so paranoid I just wanted to get down. My friends had to take me back to their house to calm me down. They said it was just marijuana and they couldn't believe how freaked out I was over it. Whether my system didn't agree with pot or I couldn't trust my friends not to spike it with something else, that was close to the end of my drug experiments (I think marijuana should be legal everywhere, but it doesn't seem to agree with me). I never tried almost any of them nor do I want to. I've told my daughter that the preferable way to beat addiction is not to get addicted in the first place, but many people fall into it and it can be a lifelong struggle (I still smoke tobacco a nasty habit I picked up way back then). I was away from my husband for eight months in 2020 I was trying to push his visa to the USA through in February 2020 but it all fell apart and stopped then I had to get back to my daughters in Las Vegas my mother couldn't help them with online school. Then my older daughter decided she wanted to live with her father in Michigan again. It's horrible the collateral toll on families. Oddly I'm just finishing up my Collage of Compliance Part 5: Memes from a Former Stripper. She's a respiratory therapist now...
I think they did this so things would appear as if they were going back to normal. If it appeared to be a permanent change large numbers might have opted out and found their own solutions (I.e. private groups in the pastors basement). So cynically they had to keep the lure there through all of these rolling waves of "virus." I am sure this was done intentionally and globally to ratchet up jab compliance. My older daughter insisted on attending in person school she's 15 and I trust her father she's old enough. It was insane online back to school masks quarantine because some jabbed kid tested positive. Her 10 day unjabbed quarantine violated her privacy and opened her to bullying. All sheer madness
LOL edited and fixed thank you! I reread and caught a few typos but as an editor myself I am not against fresh eyes on anything I write. You're showing your inner Virgo. ;-)
Alzheimer's patients seemed to be targeted with the lockdowns and visit restrictions.
"In a study of nearly 27 million adults enrolled in Medicare from March through December 2020, deaths among patients with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia surged 26% compared with the same period in 2019. Deaths among Medicare-age patients without the disease increased 12% during the first year of the pandemic, the study found."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2022/02/28/covid-19-lockdowns-linked-26-surge-dementia-patient-deaths/6971823001/
I read somewhere that the effect on dementia patients was most acute among those who had regular visitors which makes sense: not seeing their loved ones had to be devastating for them. It's like everything was planned out to do the opposite of what they said: saving grandma by not seeing her was killing her, reducing hospital capacity to flatten the curve may cause the hospitals to collapse. Almost like it was diabolical it planned to maximize destruction
Yes the cabal knew how to target the vulnerable. They knew most facilities before the lockdowns had a minimum level of staffing of nurses and aides to care for the patients so family and friends covered the gaps. With lockdowns, they effectively kept the nurse and aide extenders* away from the facilities. Additionally, they knew some staff would be more likely to call in sick due to the media fear blitz.
*Extenders - unlicensed people who are able to perform some tasks that nurses and/or aides perform.
I've been an extender or what I would call an advocate for my grandmother and my husband when he was in ICU on a ventilator. It was very obvious to me that keeping family away especially with the media screaming "fire!" In a crowded theater was absolutely going to kill people through neglect and painful isolation. I sometimes think the child death rate is so much less from Covid because parents HAD to be there. Nursing staff and doctors are not all seeing all knowing and in possession of Godlike morality like they portray on television. They make snap judgments about who is deserving of care all of the time
The old and fat and later the unjabbed would have been deemed unworthy
One headline in the NYT, saying as much, could really change things. But I guess this 'seeping out from underneath' way will work as well, with much more carnage of course. I am so sorry for the losses to your family. You are a leader. best
What is sometimes infuriating to me is the degree to which Covid disruptions destroyed addicts and recovering addicts almost by design. Pot shops and liquor stores were left open while alcoholics anonymous and faith based recovery groups were deemed unessential. The good things that gave meaning and purpose to many people, which is acutely important to those recovering from addiction, were taken away. Instead they were given free money and all the time in the world to stare at a blank wall. It's sickening...
Most places in America didn't even have in person meetings. As though Zoom is the same. It's good you were able to get out of that cycle. I got really lucky as far as drugs were concerned: I was hanging with a crowd that was very much getting into that stuff. The first time I tried pot at 13 was about my last it made me so paranoid I just wanted to get down. My friends had to take me back to their house to calm me down. They said it was just marijuana and they couldn't believe how freaked out I was over it. Whether my system didn't agree with pot or I couldn't trust my friends not to spike it with something else, that was close to the end of my drug experiments (I think marijuana should be legal everywhere, but it doesn't seem to agree with me). I never tried almost any of them nor do I want to. I've told my daughter that the preferable way to beat addiction is not to get addicted in the first place, but many people fall into it and it can be a lifelong struggle (I still smoke tobacco a nasty habit I picked up way back then). I was away from my husband for eight months in 2020 I was trying to push his visa to the USA through in February 2020 but it all fell apart and stopped then I had to get back to my daughters in Las Vegas my mother couldn't help them with online school. Then my older daughter decided she wanted to live with her father in Michigan again. It's horrible the collateral toll on families. Oddly I'm just finishing up my Collage of Compliance Part 5: Memes from a Former Stripper. She's a respiratory therapist now...
I think they did this so things would appear as if they were going back to normal. If it appeared to be a permanent change large numbers might have opted out and found their own solutions (I.e. private groups in the pastors basement). So cynically they had to keep the lure there through all of these rolling waves of "virus." I am sure this was done intentionally and globally to ratchet up jab compliance. My older daughter insisted on attending in person school she's 15 and I trust her father she's old enough. It was insane online back to school masks quarantine because some jabbed kid tested positive. Her 10 day unjabbed quarantine violated her privacy and opened her to bullying. All sheer madness
LOL edited and fixed thank you! I reread and caught a few typos but as an editor myself I am not against fresh eyes on anything I write. You're showing your inner Virgo. ;-)