What starts in a nursing home ends up in the community.

What starts in the community ends up in the nursing homes.

They should be isolated, and those who work there should have special conditions placed on them. One-size-fits-all does not work during a pandemic--different areas have different threats, different employment categories, etc.

Nursing homes form a discrete network of high-risk patients with a small number of entrance points for contagion. "The community" is a diffuse network of networks connected widely to the rest of the world.

my parents are in located in KC area has had zero cases. They haven’t allowed visitors since March 12th. They check the staff every day and regularly go over with them what they should not be doing when they leave their shift. Here’s hoping they have continued success at keeping my parents and all others safe.

Or worse still, did see it coming and ignored the warning signs.

In every state.

And yet in every state the same thing happened. And will probably continue happening.

They hide from the problem and hope for the best. If it blows over they can be part of the chorus screaming that the precautions were too much.
This time they got caught.
As a nation we are not prepared for any disaster. I can say that with assurance as an insider.

Just as the owners of the unsafe packing plants need to be held accountable.

That is not a new problem either. It is an outcrop of deregulation and the drop-off in owners being held accountable. Indeed, the latest debate about a new round of stimulus has as a hang-up special provisions to exempt owners from accountability for outbreaks after they reopen under government order.

What about them?

Was it natural causes or CV-19?

But accountability knows no bounds so non-profit should not be an issue. The very first mass outbreak in this country was in a nursing home just outside of Seattle so it was well known that these facilities have special problems that needed immediate attention. It didn't happen to the degree that it needed to happen.

had problems or he wouldn’t have been in there and he was also very old.He received excellent care even during the last horrible 2 days. It is a fairly large place so many staff coming and going...visitors not allowed for the past month so who knows how he got it.

... is cracking the whip to open back up. Watching the shitshow in MO from across the line in KS, it could not be more clear the disparity in reaction and results having a Democratic governor over a Republican one.

Not good

Or other peoples' parents and grandparents.

They're moving back home next week. They were miserable there anyway.