“Obviously we, like states across the country… have been learning an incredible amount about COVID 19, it being a novel virus. The amount that we’ve learned just in the last eight weeks is dramatically different from what we knew as we were watching the cases exponentially rise. The clear indication is that older people are more susceptible and at congregate care facilities, that is exacerbated.”
Those were the shocking words of Governor Gretchen Whitmer at a recent press conference, responding to repeated questions about her disastrous – and potentially deadly – nursing home policy. The Governor continues sending patients with COVID-19 into Michigan nursing homes and assisted living facilities, despite the best science and data that prove how devastating the virus is for our seniors.
"Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has admitted there are flaws in her controversial plan to put positive and negative coronavirus (COVID-19) patients together in the same nursing homes.The plan is still in action, though, putting people vulnerable to infection at risk."
“Several Republican lawmakers grilled Michigan’s Democrat governor, Gretchen Whitmer, for her executive order requiring nursing homes at less than 80% of capacity to create dedicated units for COVID-19-affected residents.”
"Former United Auto Workers President Gary Jones has pleaded guilty to conspiring to embezzle UAW dues, conspiring to us a facility of interstate commerce to aid racketeering, and conspiring to defraud the United States.Jones admitted to embezzling over $1 million in UAW dues, furthering racketeering and evading taxes."