No, it was NOT just an act of stupidity or panic…

 “In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.”

-Franklin Delano Roosevelt

ON APRIL 15, 2020, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer issued “Executive Order 2020-50“, under the terms of which people infected with respiratory illnesses declared to be ‘COVID-19’ (C19) were transferred from hospitals into nursing homes across the state. Those nursing homes, of course, were filled with residents especially vulnerable to fatal outcomes from exposure to such dangers due to age and co-morbidities typical to the elderly.

The transfers were engineered despite the fact that normal overall hospital capacity was never “overwhelmed” by C19 cases. What’s more, dedicated field hospital facilities had been built (at enormous expense) to provide enormous additional capacity where the infected seniors could be cared for properly while being prudently isolated.

Those field hospitals were essentially ignored. They never saw more than a couple of dozen beds occupied, and even that little use was just for show, and not because the pre-existing hospital inventory was overtaxed. But they were there and available.

No credible reason of need existed for the transfer of the infected people into nursing homes like an army of Typhoid Marys. Nonetheless, that’s what happened.

As was entirely predictable, large numbers of affected nursing home residents proceeded to die of respiratory illnesses– every one of which was reported as being a C19 fatality. As of mid-June, 2020, the reported deaths in nursing homes comprised at least 34% of the total deaths ascribed to C19 in Michigan by that point.

In fact, that percentage may be even higher. Serious questions remain as to the possible low-balling of that nursing home fatality figure due to quirky rules about how designated nursing home residents outside of the facilities for some reason after becoming infected (such as hospitalization) are accounted for by the state, and because of Whitmer’s unexplained intransigence on the release of data.

SO WHY DID WHITMER ISSUE (and renew in mid-May) an order which caused pre-mature deaths to so many Michigan citizens? Well, in light of Whitmer’s steady refusal to talk about the matter, scorn of all related FOIA requests from any quarter, being shielded from investigation by her partisan comrade Attorney General Dana Nessel, and her having paid hush-money to her former Director of Public Health upon his departure from office not long ago, I can’t answer that question definitively.

But I can throw out some facts and do some spitballing…

Continued…