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“ The situation is now “somewhat contained" because there are so few veterans living there, Miller said. There were nearly 230 residents living at the home in late March and only about 100 remained on Monday, The Boston Globe reported.”

It’s contained now because they only have about 100 residents left? They only have 100 residents left because so many of them died.

And while I'm not a fan of Baker, his response to the pandemic has been pretty good, overall. Holyoke is in Western Mass, far from and very often off the radar of what's happening in Boston. Our county's HHS suuuucks, and I think their lack of response and hostility towards people who have questioned it is more more to blame for this.

Also, as an FYI: Your post title says "nt." That means "no text," a throwback to the days when dialup took forever to load and n/t in a title saved readers the trouble of loading a post to find no more info. Using it in this post title is a non sequitur.

I wasn’t going to add any more. I got distracted and didn’t post right away. When I came back, I decided to write more, and because I’m on my cell, I couldn’t see the end of the title. My mistake.

I’m also from MA, and while I don’t Baker has done a terrible job under the circumstances, we should make it clear that it’s still a republican with responsibility here.

(checks calendar) 2002? But I just had to explain this to my 29-year-old boss, so I figured you were probably a young'un who misunderstood what it meant.

Yeah. My beef with him is how he's only extended the stay-at-home advisory until May 18th, when the schools are closed for the rest of the year. I work in the public sector and it scares the fuck out of me that our county's death toll keeps rising and I'm going to be back working face-to-face with the public before that subsides in any meaningful way.

I’ve actually been at work all along (I guess I’ve been declared essential, and most of my work requires me to be in the office, but I know many people who are concerned that they’re just going to open things back up and “hope for the best”.

On the plus side, my normal 1:20 morning commute is now only about 45 minutes (mass pike and 128)

It's brutal. Now my commute has been cut from 12 minutes down to about 6. And I still get in a few minutes past the hour! lol

I'm also deemed essential but our building is closed to the public and I get to work 3 days from home and two in the office (to adhere to social distancing protocols among our cubes). Grateful to still have my job and also worried about probable furloughs in the near future.

Wonder how many were given hydroxychloroquine?

“A ex-soldier came up to me with tears in his eyes and said, “Sir, stick that UV light up your own ass, you already killed me with that hydroxychloroquine moron.” I gave him Rush’s Medal of Freedom, he’s not gonna be with us much longer. I gotta go “skip lunch” now, I need a boost—if you know what I mean.”

Nearly 70 residents sickened with the coronavirus have died at a Massachusetts home for aging veterans

All I hear is crickets

The same with the troops - those those make certain people very rich as well.

The death count and positive testing will be through the roof.

bumbling, dithering response, these veteran's - who gave their "last full measure of devotion" to this Nation, seem among the most awful. Gasping for air. Dying alone.

They served their country, but when THEY needed their country most, their Commander-In-Chief laughed, and shrugged, and left them to die... far from their loved ones...alone.

Trump's hard core supporters will NEVER see these vets' deaths, or the health care workers' deaths, or ANY of the deaths from this pandemic as partly/mostly Trump's and Republican's fault...

But for the rest of us, every other thinking, feeling citizen of this land, MUST "here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain."

We all must get out and vote!

Vote these monsters OUT!

Making it home again after fighting battles in foreign wars, only to be killed by a stupid virus. And their president.

They'll use this.

Don't want to sound like a conspiracy nut, but that congressional Republicans delayed, blocked, and refused to take action, even though a number of them are legislative experts in disease control, is documented beyond any doubt. Some were involved in containing SARS1, which had spread around the planet, to 8 cases when it arrived in the U.S.

Of course they understood that a disease that killed elderly people would be devastating in a VA facility, and they also did nothing to protect our veterans from the pandemic they unleashed.

While 45 is to blame for the late response to the epidemic overall, I think it was the lack of testing that showed our county only having one case until the first week of April that led to denial by staff as to what was happening. Our county Health and Human Services Department constantly harped on the fact that there was only one case in the county and not to panic. Once the staff realized what was happening, they panicked and went into CYA mode. Reminds me of the book Five Days at Memorial, about a NOLA hospital's panicked response after Hurricane Katrina.

But prefer that any Vet simply dies silently like a good soldier to help cut costs at the V. A.

I sure hope so!

If this isn't proof that he's the worst "leader" ever, I don't know what more they need to see.