State Sen. Peter Lucido (R-Shelby Township) said “What our governor has done is literally cold-bloodedly killed the most injured parties that are out there. The ones that have compromised immune systems—cold-blooded.”
Michigan was the last state to stop commingling DTMNBN (Disease That Must Not Be Named) and non-DTMNBN patients in the nursing homes.
Honestly, moist governors could not have mishandled the DTMNBN crisis as badly Gov Gretchen Whitmer even if they tried.
Lucido is running for prosecutor and he says that if he is elected, he would prosecute Whitmer for all of the deaths in nursing homes. Putting DTMNBN patients in a facility where our most vulnerable live is a bad idea. 40% of all DTMNBN deaths occurred in nursing homes.
Lucido said:
“If we have the information that supports a conviction, which means I can look down at the data, which is not there, the science, which is not there, and have doctors come to testify to support that the medical decisions that were made here were made unilaterally by one person only — Gretchen Whitmer — you’re damn right he’s going to get charged because she deserves to own up to those deaths in those nursing homes.”
Lucido said, “Science and data do not support infecting healthy people who have to be protected at all costs,” referring to elderly patients in the nursing homes.
He added that those facilities had to fight with hospitals for personal protective equipment, and hospitals had “first dibs,” and that ventilators, doctors, and other things found in hospitals were not present in the nursing homes.
LeDuff was irate and urged Whitmer to “swallow your pride” and change the policy. Or as he said, “Get the goddamn shit fixed.”
Lucido responded that if Whitmer doesn’t change the policy, “only she has the blood on her hands with the death of those individuals.”
The senator proposed a bill that would ban the practice of putting COVID-positive patients in nursing homes to recover.
Lucido noted the Oversight Committee wants to question Whitmer over her policy, and she refuses to appear. She previously cited ongoing litigation started by the legislature as her excuse.
