Colorado: Nursing Home Residents Protest COVID Lockdowns: “I’d Rather Die Of COVID Than Loneliness”

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Greeley nursing home residents protest pandemic lockdown: “I’d rather die of COVID than loneliness”

By Sherrie Peif, Complete Colorado, October 8, 2020:

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GREELEY — Waving signs that read such things as “I’d rather die of COVID than loneliness,” and “We are prisoners in our home,” residents of one nursing facility staged their own anti-lockdown protest along one of the busiest streets in Greeley, directly across the street from the city’s largest and longest operating hospital.

“Freedom, freedom, freedom,” one lady chanted while waving a sign that read “we want our families back.”

The protest against the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) and Gov. Jared Polis’ mandates that do not allow nursing home residents to see their loved ones, was thought up, organized and carried out by the residents, with oversight from their nurses and other staff members, said the Assistant Administrator of Fairacres Manor Ben Gonzales.

Gonzales said the facility has a resident council that meets monthly to discuss things that are on residents’ minds. They usually discuss caregivers, things they’d like to do, or offer suggestions, among other things.

However, recently, they brought up the idea of protesting the lockdown as they enter their eighth month of no hugs, no smiles, no kisses from their loved ones.

“We are here to support our residents,” Gonzales said. “If they want to get their voices heard, they have rights just like we should have rights as well. We wanted to make sure that they were able to express those.”

Gonzales said the staff made sure the residents were all placed six feet apart on the grass across from the entrance to North Colorado Medical Center, along a busy 16th Street in the center of town. They were wearing masks and each one had their own member of the staff nearby. The nurses and other personnel were also in all the appropriate personal protection equipment required for their jobs.

Hospital administration who happened to hear of the protest, applauded their efforts and took time to go across the street as well.

One woman, who was not from Greeley, but happened to be at the hospital during the protest yelled across the street “tell them to let you out of jail.”

She identified herself only as a nursing home administrator in another community. She said has seen more deaths due to depression among her residents since the pandemic than she has COVID itself, blaming mandates and restrictions more than the virus.

“The isolation is what kills these people,” she said. “It’s just incredibly sad that they can’t live out the last part of their lives with their family surrounding them.”

Gonzales agreed. He said although the homes are now preparing for indoor visits as the weather gets colder, residents will still not be able to touch or hug their loved ones.

“But that’s what they need,” Gonzales said. “They need that physical contact, to hug their grandchildren.”

Gonzales agreed some of the signs they created were tough to read.

“We as staff members get to go see our family and our loved ones,” Gonzales said. “So, it’s tough when they don’t get to do that. We are held to standards by the government and the state health department. But it’s very understandable. I feel for them. I can’t imagine what they are going through. So, it’s nice to be able to support them in this way. We are here to come together and to support each other.”

Weld County Commissioner Scott James stopped by the facility to lend his support for the protest as well. He said his heart breaks for all the residents of Fairacres and every other facility like it in Colorado.

“They are members of the greatest generation,” James said. “The very generation who fought to overturn tyranny and protect our freedoms. Now these members of that generation have had their freedom taken away via a tyrannous act by unelected bureaucrats. The governor and the CDPHE should immediately work with these facilities to give them a way by which they may hug their loved ones.”

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Philip
Philip
3 years ago

Covid Karens are out there and they definitely suck but don’t forget there are workers out there that do not mind if you aren’t wearing a mask- they are out there too. This can’t continue forever because it is so insanely dumb, only Democrats continue to love it.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  Philip

Masks don’t stop you from getting it.

Philip
Philip
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

I know. I’ve been actively trying to get it for months now. I’m not licking toilet seats or anything like that but it just seems impossible to easily contract. Since I’ve been hospitalized four times in six months, and still 100% Wuflu free, it seems to be running rampantly only in nursing homes and White Houses. We are being lied to about this on so many levels. It’s infuriating.

santashandler
santashandler
3 years ago
Reply to  Philip

Bingo!

terry
terry
3 years ago
Reply to  santashandler

sad here in Melbourne Victoria the elderly die and close family can’t cost let alone go to funeral only 5 people allowed.will C19 and C17 ever disappear??
the govts still allow refoes and illegals in but no-one gets out how come?

santashandler
santashandler
3 years ago
Reply to  terry

All good questions. Australia is proving to be quite the tyrannical state with respect to this plandemic. Not allowing family to go to a funeral, is beyond draconian. We are now witnessing history repeat itself.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
3 years ago
Reply to  santashandler

Think about the U.S.A.

We. in many Left Wingnut Regressive (Democrat Party) states were not allowed funerals. Yet, in those same states, St. George the Gang Rapist Floyd, had funerals attended by thousands.

santashandler
santashandler
3 years ago

Disgusting, isn’t it. Even DeBlasio has and is preventing Orthodox Jews from attending funerals in NYC. But, I’m sure he feels the protestors’ need for a “voice” is far more important than being allowed to honor a dead religious person.

Philip
Philip
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

What if mask culture is contributing to the spread of the disease and we don’t even know it yet? Like the folks in the medieval era not realizing the bubonic plague was being spread by fleas, maybe it’s clinging to some people’s masks somehow and we can’t even know how? It just seems as though we ought to be smarter than we have been collectively behaving.

santashandler
santashandler
3 years ago
Reply to  Philip

The masks ARE contributing to the spread of the disease. Search Dr. Blaylock. He made a very compelling case about that and the dangers of the mask.

Philip
Philip
3 years ago
Reply to  santashandler

You know, I’m ok with the future getting this. What I’m not ok with is the present not getting this. The educated among us should know better. Unfortunately, they seem to subordinate science for politics and this is so uncool that it demands instant retribution. Karma is going to get them all but not before they cause so much harm to everyone else that their debt will be extreme. I do not think they even care currently. They will, eventually. This is so much effed up it is hard to rationalize.

santashandler
santashandler
3 years ago
Reply to  Philip

The educated among us, should indeed know better. In some cases, they are the worst. Spouting the official narrative (masks, social distancing, blah, blah) as if it were radioed in to a chip in their heads from headquarters. The longer this goes, the more obvious it becomes this has nothing to do with preserving public health. Businesses and the economy be damned. Those in the present who don’t ‘get it,’ are the ones who have forgotten history. Oh how quickly they forget.

Philip
Philip
3 years ago
Reply to  santashandler

The ones who don’t “get it” are going to be very problematic again and again, unfortunately.

Curt
Curt
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

RIGHT, Felix! All the types of masks out there – they have Never even been tested; The Covid particles’ micron sizre is TOO SMALL for these masks to stoip Anyway! In addition, the 25% decrease in O2 being inhaled, with a corresesponding increase in Nitrogen, is cumulatively harmful, esp. in children, I understand… Stopped wearing my bandana ‘mask’ many wks ago, and I am 73, with NO ill effects, tho I have no pre-existing conditions-.

tituspullo
tituspullo
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

what is “it”? we really don’t know that “it” exists. i know no one who has become ill or died from “it”. that’s not a pandemic, that’s a hoax.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago

That is so terribly sad. Imagine how many died alone with strangers around you dressed up in PPE gear wanting as little as possible to do with you.
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DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

WORKS WELL for election riots too:
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DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

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DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

The Great Barrington Declaration: “Current lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health.”
https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/oct/8/thousands-scientists-urge-end-devastating-lockdown/

The new declaration was signed by about 15,000 scientists from Harvard, Stanford and Oxford University and many other shcools. “As infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists we have grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies, and recommend an approach we call Focused Protection,” … [allowing most people to] “live their lives normally to build up immunity through natural infection,” while improving safeguards for the elderly and others at greater risk of death from COVID-19.Problems with lockdowns include “lower childhood vaccination rates, worsening cardiovascular disease outcomes, fewer cancer screenings and deteriorating mental health—leading to greater excess mortality in years to come.”

Jeff Ludwig
Jeff Ludwig
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

However the restrictions on nursing homes would probably be acceptable to this Great Barrington group as they are promoting restrictions on the elderly but fewer restrictions on other segments of society.

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago
Reply to  Jeff Ludwig

Jeff, yes, but when the confined elderly pass up diagnostics and medical care because of the lock-downs, they can die from lack of attention. So that cannot be permitted to happen. A lot of cancer wards and clinics are half-empty, because people just die at home instead.

so,
so,
3 years ago
Reply to  Jeff Ludwig

staff ( usually low paid questionable credentialed) are more of a health concern, lack of cleanliness in the facility, not a relative that briefly visits a parent that spreads illness.

Leonard Payne
Leonard Payne
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

The “shut-downs” over-reached BY A CONSTITUTION.

Don T
Don T
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Strangers that look like Outer Space Aliens in their bizarre garb, and scare the heck out of the lonely, isolated old folks.

Halal Bacon
Halal Bacon
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

reminds me of that reacharound guy in that stephen king movie

santashandler
santashandler
3 years ago

“Gonzales said the staff made sure the residents were all placed six feet
apart on the grass across from the entrance to North Colorado Medical
Center, along a busy 16th Street in the center of town. They were
wearing masks and each one had their own member of the staff nearby.” Translation: each resident had their own government approved exterminator, er, handler to make sure none of the residents attempted anything so dangerous as getting closer than six feet to someone, or trying to talk without a mask on. Yeah, way to treat our elderly. I hope those who are ‘just following orders’ are haunted by what they are participating in. May they’ll all be charged with crimes against humanity when this is over.

caschmid@centurytel.net
3 years ago

To deny visitor access is to deny the effectiveness of PPE. This is in-humane in the nursing homes, hospitals and hospices. All of my career, families were allowed to visit the sick, dying and even tiniest premature infant with proper PPE. Human contact is vital. We slaughter the innocents and deny our sick and dying the most basic of human comfort….human love. What are we doing, America?

Jeff Ludwig
Jeff Ludwig
3 years ago

My wife is originally from the Philippines. Although she became a U.S. citizen, over our decades together she has frequently noted what a lonely place America is. In the Philippines the elderly typically have home nursing care and live with or near their large extended families.

Dave Jensen
Dave Jensen
3 years ago

Interesting:

TOTAL U.S. DEATHS [ALL CAUSES]:
2017 Total Deaths US: 2,813,503 (234,000/month)
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db328.htm
2018 Total Deaths US: 2,839,205 (237,000/month)
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db355.htm
2019 Total Deaths US: 2,855,000 (238,000/month)
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/prov … tables.htm
2020 Total Deaths US (jan – week 9/26): 2,130,000 (236,000/month)
https://data.cdc.gov/…/Weekly-Counts-of…/muzy-jte6
2,130,000 + (236,000/month x 3) [Oct, Nov, Dec] = 2,838,000 [assumption based on monthly avg]
2020: 2,838,000 [3-month assumption insert]
2019: 2,855,000
2018: 2,839,000
2017: 2,814,000

Halal Bacon
Halal Bacon
3 years ago

Grandma always wins, gamm, grammie, gamarie? she cheats at crazy 8’s

tituspullo
tituspullo
3 years ago

jared polis is a filthy rich homosexual from CA, who changed his name as an adult just like de blasio did for mysterious reasons, who was sent into CO by hidden hands and anointed a congressman and then a governor. he has destroyed this state with the virus hoax, continues to persecute Christian bakers who won’t make a cake to celebrate ungodly sexual perversions, and is making people in CO as miserable as possible with his tyrannical decrees in an attempt to destroy trump. he is evil personified, and these old folks should pool their money together to hire people who would make the guv an offer he can’t refuse to get themselves out of the polis-imposed prisons called nursing homes. i have a 95-year old mother living at home who is recovering from a broken hip for months…we have 3 or 4 people coming in daily to care for her and told them all they didn’t need to wear a mask. mom is fine, and the virus hoax doesn’t exist in her house.

Patriotliz
Patriotliz
3 years ago

Whatever precautions, PPE, testing that the Nurses and Doctors have to go through in order to interact with the NH patients, so too can the close relatives who want to visit the the patients in NH or Hospitals. Testing with the rapid Antigen test should be done on all NH patients and personnel daily as well as any visitors to the NH that day. Positive Covid patients need be isolated and treated EARLY until they test negative.
It’s called using science.
https://www.rapidtests.org/comment image

Leonard Payne
Leonard Payne
3 years ago

A nursing home IS NOT A PRISON …., or, at least, it should not be.
They DO NOT HAVE “lawful authority” to keep family out – EVER.

Oldhorseshoer
Oldhorseshoer
3 years ago

Same thing here in Tennessee. I’m stuck in one with a locked knee I haven’t been able to straighten in 6 days. I’m not allowed to see my orthopedic surgeon because of lockdown. I may be permanently bedridden because of this. Still waiting to hear back from the Attorney General office.

Don39
Don39
3 years ago

S H I T ! Edit that!

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