One of the biggest lies of the Covid pandemic is that the politicians and bureaucrats were “keeping us safe”. In fact, often the worst outcomes of the pandemic can be traced directly back to the venal incompetence of the Covidians.
In Australia, for instance, the Andrews government’s criminally botched hotel quarantine led directly to more than 800 deaths — more than the rest of Australia’s covid toll combined.
In New York, then-governor Andrew Cuomo barred nursing homes from turning away admissions or readmissions of COVID-positive individuals. When thousands of elderly nursing home residents died, Cuomo’s office released deliberately doctored statistics that under-counted deaths by 50%.
Another of America’s leading Covidians, Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer, wasn’t quite so diligent at hiding the bodies.
The administration of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer underreported the number of nursing home residents who died from COVID-19 by 30 percent, according to a report by the state’s auditor general.
Whitmer is quite the piece of work. Her draconian covid regulations saw, among other things, Michiganders banned from buying seeds or gardening supplies — but they could get abortions. Yet, while her state was locked, Whitmer secretly flew to Florida to visit her father — without quarantining, as her own rules demanded. She was also photographed partying at a bar, maskless, with a large crowd of friends — again, violating her own rules. To top it all off, a supposed “right wing extremist” plot to kidnap her turned out to consist almost entirely of undercover FBI agents — some of whom had serious criminal records.
At the start of the pandemic, Whitmer, a Democrat, issued an emergency executive order to place infected senior citizens in extended care facilities that had the ability to isolate them in a designated wing. As the infection spread, many residents and care workers died.
The audit found that 8,061 elderly Michiganders died of the disease in the state’s nursing homes between March 2020 and July 2, 2021. The officially posted death toll is 5,675, as self-reported by the state’s extended care facilities, which is required by law.
On the face of it, that appears to be an undercount of 42 percent. The audit provides 13 pages of explanation of why the real undercount is only 30 percent.
Well, that makes all the difference.
In a Jan. 9, 2021, letter to Ringler, Elizabeth Hertel, director of the state’s Department of Health and Human Services and a Whitmer appointee, explained that the additional deaths found by the investigation were due to differences in counting procedures and not an intentional undercount.
Hertel said she had “serious concerns” that the audit’s methodology could lead to the official state count being “misinterpreted,” and could call into question “the work and integrity of long-term care facilities, local health departments, coroners, and other frontline workers who we rely on to report data.”
More likely, it will embarrass yet another hard-line Covidian.
Whitmer ought to get her fellow Democrat, Cuomo, on the phone. If there’s one thing a New Yorker knows, it’s how to hide the bodies.
After investigating a sample of 62 of the state’s nursing homes in the late spring of 2020, New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, concluded, “COVID-19 deaths associated with nursing homes in New York state appear to be undercounted by the Department of Health by approximately 50 percent.”
Just coincidentally, James was at the time at the forefront of a campaign to take down Cuomo — not for lying about policies that killed thousands of elderly New Yorkers, but for alleged “sexual harrassment”. Sure enough, the ambitious James now has Cuomo’s job.
But whoever said covid was political?