All K-12 schools in Pennsylvania shut down for 2 weeks amid coronavirus outbreak

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335. Am guessing you've never done "investigations" or are aware of governmental functions

It was mentioned during the presser about what was going on there with a "consultant". It's a "private" business. It's not run by the state but is "regulated" (a word the GOP hates) by the state.

Remember that the whiny "anti-nanny state" GOP that control our state legislature has the mindset that if you were stupid enough to utilize a "business" that failed for you, then that is on you. And any attempt by Democrats to exercise more control over private entities is shot down - and as we see with the silly temper tantrums around the state - attempts to "regulate" are ignored.

The type of thing that has to be done before going into someplace and slashing and burning the place down right away, is to actually find out what the hell is going on - medically, financially, structurally, and administratively, and then come up with plans for implementing long-term fixes. You don't ad hoc go into a huge facility, that has probably submitted fraudulent documents to the state as it is, and try to change something when you have no idea what is really going on.

Even if the state somehow had the power/authority to go in and fire the entire staff, then they would now have to hire "new" people for replacements and that takes time - surely not less than a month and especially when everything is already stressed to the limit as it is.

From what I heard yesterday, Connor Lamb is involved since the facility is in his district.

The virus exposed a whole lot of gaps in our private medical facilities, and certainly in our private, state, county, municipal, and federally-run penal systems, when it comes to health. These congregate settings are where this virus has run rampant.

Cuomo addressed the similar type of media idiocy - in their case regarding their data systems and demanding to know why they "didn't plan for" tens of thousands of people filing for unemployment every week - and his response was that if they had spent the money to do that type of large-scale upgrade, the self-same media would demand to know why they "wasted all that money on something that would probably never happen".

The below is about the cemetery that my mother is buried in just over 5 years ago -

175 bodies in 2 days: Deluged with coronavirus victims, a Philadelphia cemetery aims to preserve the dignity of the dead

by Mike Newall, Updated: May 5, 2020


David Drysdale Jr. stood in the hallway of the crematorium his family has run for three generations and took stock of the pandemic’s dead. He could barely move. The bodies, in cardboard cremation boxes, had overtaken the hallway. He had to cut a path around them. The refrigerators were long past filled. So was the receiving vault, the moss-covered stone edifice in East Mount Airy’s Ivy Hill Cemetery and Crematory that hadn’t held a body in a century — not since the 1918 flu epidemic swept through the city, leaving devastation in its wake.

In the grip of that crisis, the gravediggers at the historic cemetery could not dig fast enough. By late April, as the coronavirus continued to extract its toll, Drysdale and his crematorium operators could not keep up with the unrelenting flow of bodies, the line of hearses that snaked down the driveway and through the cemetery’s cresting hills. They had tried to prepare. They watched the death toll in New York, and knew Philadelphia’s dead would be coming. They cleaned out the old receiving vault, beneath the shade of a red maple tree.

And Drysdale added an extra crew to keep up. But he soon realized there was no keeping up. The cremation machines burned all day, so hot that even in the mornings, after cooling all night, the bricks glowed cherry-red. Some of the dead were from the same family. A mother and son. A father and son. All of the families were denied the chance to say goodbye. Drysdale wanted to help grieving families and accommodate funeral directors, who were as overwhelmed as he was. But storing bodies in a crematorium hallway does not afford the dead the dignity he was taught they deserve.

So, standing among the victims of a vicious virus, he decided he had to cap the number of bodies the crematory could accept on any given day at 40. Still a number unlike any he’d seen in his life, and his life has been spent at the cemetery.

https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia-ivy-hill-cemetery-crematory-20200505.html

As Wolf said - "The enemy is not government. It is the virus". And unfortunately since people can't physically "see it", they deny it exists and are left with pointing fingers at someone or something "more tangible".