We’re not out of the woods yet — but we’re on the highway. It’s a good time to remember where we’ve been.
“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “COVID” Road signs
Tag: COVID-19 Vaccinations
“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Rise of the Evil Ones” – Form Based Evil – COVID Room
“Exposed!” It could be the headline for a Pandemic story that can’t be written. Compassion is no longer a human feeling; it’s a marketing tool. Say “pandemic” and “compassion” together and a picture of a smiling health care worker or first responder appears. Victims are no more than an object — the messy collateral of societal policies and problems.
The elderly did the dying; and there was silence instead of crying. Instead: the Media lamented that kids had to stay at home and play Xbox and text each other; rather than visit their friends and play Xbox and text each other. Our elderly are looked on as an object of the past – put on a display shelf – and minimally cared for to retain their catalog value. They’re a piggy bank waiting to be smashed open — so don’t live too long and disappoint the kids.
Somewhere in our money-changing maze; bureaucrats are gleefully rubbing their hands together and thinking of all the Social Security payments they can keep. But that’s another story . . .
“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Cover-up the Cover-up” Bumper Sticker
When New York’s elderly caused Cuomo trouble; they ceased to exist.
The suppression of Nursing Home deaths has progressively led to a non-reporting status of all Pandemic age-related demographics. Since only Race and Ethnicity are important; they are the sole determiner in State vaccination statistics.
Not only are the elderly doing the overwhelming majority of the dying; the pro forma “Sadly, we lost [today’s number] New Yorkers to the virus” announcement hasn’t changed one word — only the number of dead has changed. Since January 13th; more than 7,000 human beings have been added to the total — up a thousand since March.
Sadly, we still have the same Governor.
“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “C-O-R-R-U-P-T” Bumper Sticker
The rhythm of the sticker message brings back a song from the 60s; and like the song; all we’re getting is “disrespect.”
State and County vaccination data is only displayed in terms of “race” and “ethnicity” — and yet New York’s elderly is a minority group that comprises 85% of state’s COVID deaths —— why won’t they show age related data for deaths and vaccinations? Because they’re not supposed to.
Corruption doesn’t have to be about money; it can be about power — New York State’s corrupt power brokering relies on control of the people; and that requires a program of omission, revision, or suppression of all conflicting information. Wouldn’t you like to see the memos that instruct public employees to do this?
New Word – “Equitabullshit”
“Equitable” is actually a denial of human worth, and a proclamation that those in authority have the sole right to divide and decide the rights of others — even the right to live.
To the people who claim that there is a “greater justice”: if this justice can be apportioned by the dictates of the rich and powerful; how can you claim there is any justice at all?
“Rise of the Evil Ones” – The “No Appointments Available” Mobile
Even though 84% of New York’s COVID deaths were aged 65 years and older, and its administration is being investigated for its handling of Nursing Homes during the pandemic; State and County governments still treat these vulnerable elderly residents as a demographic not worth bothering about, or even bothering to mention.
New York’s only “Vaccine Demographic Data” is displayed on their website by the percentage of “Race & Ethnicity” and categorized by “region”: without any population data to distinguish between New York City [42% of the state’s population], and the Southern Tier [2%] — there is no age related information disclosed for any of those vaccinated.
I searched 28 of Cuomo’s “NYS Coronavirus Updates” from 1/13 to 2/23 for “elderly” and “senior”: and the only found the mention of “senior residents” receiving vaccine; as part of a NYCHA vaccination program.
On February 20th; we received a mailing from the County’s Health Department telling the “over 65” population to get vaccinations; but stressing that they do not block or make appointments, they won’t put you on a waiting list, or give advance notice of clinic locations, and advising that you should “ask a trusted family member or friend to assist.”
The motto on the envelope read “Aging Better, Together”
“Rise of the Evil Ones” – “BLOG BOG”
The vaccine is being distributed by New York State authorities with the same dismissive attitude that is a hallmark of their policy making toward the elderly and the unborn.
Age may be the demographic that defined the state’s COVID-19 fatalities; but it’s politics that defines who gets the vaccine.
A teacher who has already received the vaccine told me that he had been networked with the time vaccine appointments would be available, and on the dot used his smart phone and laptop together to grab a slot before they were gone in minutes. How can the county’s rural elderly; without prior notification, many without computers, good vision, and even the ability to move their fingers without pain, compete with that?
I have been unable to schedule a vaccine appointment for my mother, and called the County hot-line: I told them she was 97 years old, with heart disease, high blood-pressure and a pacemaker — they replied: “Everyone thinks they’re at risk.”
The sum-total of their help was to say: “Just keep trying.”
Now you know what happened with the Nursing Homes.
“Rise of the Evil Ones” – “So Long”
Public Health officials announced that COVID-19 vaccinations for those over the age of 75 in rural New York “will move into an undetermined time.”
Even while the Attorney General’s office is investigating misconduct in the State’s treatment of nursing homes during the pandemic; the State keeps shuffling its most-at-risk population to the back of the vaccination line.
While New York’s power groups bat COVID causes and cures back and forth — its rural elderly are merely in the way.