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    How New York Turned Nursing Homes Into 'Slaughter Houses'

    This is why individuals are more competent decision-makers about their own affairs than governments. For this reason, a society that removes decision-making from individuals and places it in the hands of central planners invites disorder and endangerment, the economist Thomas Sowell has observed.

    "It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong," wrote Sowell.

    Media were quick to describe the nursing home tragedy as a "market failure," pointing out that 70 percent of nursing homes in the US are for-profit. This is hardly a market failure, however. Long-term care facilities saw the danger and warned public officials what would happen.

    What were they told?

    "That is the rule, and that is the regulation," Cuomo told them, "and they have to comply with it."
    How New York Turned Nursing Homes Into ‘Slaughter Houses’ | The Libertarian Institute

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    Deroy Murdock: Stark difference between Cuomo and DeSantis' handling of nursing homes during coronavirus pandemic

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    Quote Originally Posted by fuego View Post
    Deroy Murdock: Stark difference between Cuomo and DeSantis' handling of nursing homes during coronavirus pandemic

    Deroy Murdock: Stark difference between Cuomo and DeSantis''' handling of nursing homes during coronavirus pandemic | Fox News
    RE: Desantis and FL.

    We have a lot of practice down here with "shelter in place" type emergencies and have had our fair share of nursing home fatalities during power outages that were hurricane related, folks were baked to death during a few blackouts so nursing homes have been on our radar for quite awhile. Overall, I'm a fan of Desantis though, the guy is not very charismatic but he is an excellent leader, he just gets things done without drama.

    I shudder to think if this guy had won and it was a very close race.

    They also encountered the political leader in whom Florida Democrats had invested so much hope. Andrew Gillum, according to the police report, "was unable to communicate with officers due to his inebriated state."

    The candidate who had come within less than a half-percentage point of defeating Ron DeSantis in the 2018 gubernatorial campaign, who then promised to register a million more new Democratic voters before the 2020 presidential election, quickly announced that he was headed to rehab — the universal destination for celebs nabbed in scandalous circumstances.
    Scandal-plagued Andrew Gillum shows why election laws are as flawed as our candidates | Fred Grimm - South Florida Sun Sentinel - South Florida Sun-Sentinel

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    Quote Originally Posted by John View Post
    RE: Desantis and FL.

    We have a lot of practice down here with "shelter in place" type emergencies and have had our fair share of nursing home fatalities during power outages that were hurricane related, folks were baked to death during a few blackouts so nursing homes have been on our radar for quite awhile. Overall, I'm a fan of Desantis though, the guy is not very charismatic but he is an excellent leader, he just gets things done without drama.

    I shudder to think if this guy had won and it was a very close race.



    Scandal-plagued Andrew Gillum shows why election laws are as flawed as our candidates | Fred Grimm - South Florida Sun Sentinel - South Florida Sun-Sentinel
    Any plans to try and change change that law?

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    Any plans to try and change change that law?
    Party primaries are really a private affair. I'm not sure they are governed by any laws.

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