Despite the media’s attempts to frame him otherwise, Walz is a radical Leftist. His ideologies and past records reflect that.
And Tim Walz is done for now that one of his dangerous policies has been exposed.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, under the leadership of Democratic Governor Tim Walz, Minnesota witnessed a tragic toll on its most vulnerable population.
A staggering 80% of the state’s COVID-related deaths occurred among residents of long-term care facilities, including nursing homes and assisted living centers.
Critics have sharply condemned a policy, similar to those adopted in other states, that allowed patients with COVID-19 to be admitted to nursing homes after being discharged from hospitals.
The policy in question has since been removed from the Minnesota government website and was obtained by the Wayback Machine.
“Patients with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 who still require transmission-based precautions for COVID-19 can be transferred to congregate living facilities,” the retrieved policy states.
“It is the recommendation of MDH that patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 can be discharged when clinically indicated and neither discontinuation of transmission-based precautions nor the establishment of two negative COVID-19 tests is required prior to hospital discharge,” it adds.
By May 2020, the devastating impact of this approach was clear, with over 80% of Minnesota’s COVID-19 deaths occurring among long-term care facility residents.
Despite the alarming data, Governor Walz stood by the policy. “This was what everyone was doing. This was not a mistake. It wasn’t like no one thought about this. There was complexity in how you deal with this,” Walz asserted in May 2020, as the crisis continued to unfold.
Reports from the Star Tribune revealed that nursing homes felt they were placed on the back burner when it came to receiving essential personal protective equipment (PPE), which was crucial for safeguarding both staff and residents from the virus.
According to the report, the state’s Department of Health “informed providers in April that its emergency stockpile of N95 masks was reserved for ‘hospital settings only’ and that they should wait until their supplies had dwindled to ‘zero to three days’ before requesting more gear.
As an alternative, the state advised nursing homes to “consider using nonmedical cloth masks and to ‘connect with local communities for donations,’” the report added.
“Nursing home residents aren’t getting half of our resources or half of our attention, yet they account for roughly half the deaths,” David Grabowski, a healthcare policy professor at Harvard Medical School, said to the The Atlantic in 2020. “We don’t value their lives as much as other people’s.”
“MDH strongly recommends against families bringing residents of long-term care facilities to their homes during this time. This recommendation applies whether residents have previously been diagnosed with COVID-19 or have recently tested negative for COVID-19,” stated an executive order from Minnesota’s Department of Health, known as Executive Order 20-99.
Other Blue States Used The Same Destructive COVID Policies Walz Used
Minnesota’s experience mirrored that of other states.
In 2020, then-New York Governor Andrew Cuomo faced intense criticism for a similar directive that required nursing homes to accept patients believed to have COVID-19.
Cuomo’s policy prohibited nursing homes from inquiring about a patient’s COVID status when deciding to admit them.
So it looks like for Walz, he wasn’t the only one who was ruining lives with his awful strategies used to deal with COVID.
Stay tuned to The Federalist Wire.
