If you love somebody, bring em home

Before God does

Like many countries we Irish also pride ourselves in thinking/believing we are old people friendly...
From my own experience within my own community/ jurisdiction it is easy for me to believe why we are, but when I look beyond that and watch documentaries on our TV exposing the abuse of our elderly in nursing homes... It is easy to see why I think less pride and more shame on us.

I won't go into the shameful/disgraceful because even remembering boils my blood let alone speak of it
What I will say though, our government along with authorities promised, such negligence would never happen again.... yet here we are so many months later, already seeing results of their broken promise.

Our death toll todate (as I know it) is 365
187 of those are patients that came from nursing homes.

As far as I know, between private and HSE we have 520 nursing homes throughout Ireland....
when last I read, 240 were infected with the virus, that's more then half, which is a holy disgrace.
so much for the PROMISE.. .

This is a tough time not easy for anyone nevertheless, I do worry about those who helped built shape the world, are they being neglected with not as much thought as the younger, because they are old, with a life lived, their end isn't as important as others continuing ... I know that sounds horrid but fortunately or unfortunately not everyone thinks the same.

Thankfully I do not have a loved one of mine in a nursing home......
but if I had and without another thought, I'd have them home isolating with me where I know they would be safer and have much more better GUARANTEED care.