Is WA Gov. Jay Inslee Single-handedly Responsible for America's COVID Outbreak?

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Is WA Gov. Jay Inslee Single-handedly Responsible for America's COVID Outbreak?
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2021/03/13/is-wa-gov-jay-inslee-single-handedly-responsible-for-americas-covid-outbreak-n2586203

Over the last few weeks, all eyes have been on New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) for his nursing home scandal. Cuomo instructed nursing homes to take in COVID-positive patients that were being discharged from the hospital, a move that resulted in more than 10,000 deaths.

As it turns out, Cuomo wasn't the only governor to make that kind of call. Reporters in Michigan are suing Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) to obtain data about the Great Lakes State's deaths in nursing homes, something prosecutors say could end in criminal charges. Washington State Gov. Jay Inslee (D) can now be added to that very list.

Washington State's Aging and Long-Term Support Administration, which falls under the Department of Social and Health Services, directed nursing homes to accept COVID-positive patients that were no longer needing "acute care" in a hospital. The goal was to "transition" those patients to "alternative settings"

Jay Inslee joins Andrew Cuomo and Gretchen Whitmer of sending COVID-19 patient to nursing homes.

What's amazing is Inslee and his team at DOH saw the outbreak at Life Care and still asked nursing homes to take in COVID-positive patients. The Seattle Times says these decisions contributed to roughly half of the state's 5,000 coronavirus-related deaths to the nursing home policy because "nearly 200 nursing homes" had "at least one outbreak." Some had multiple outbreaks. Very few long-term care facilities in the state have gone without any COVID infections. But in King County, where Seattle is located, "455 people connected to nursing homes have died, account for a third of the county's total deaths."

While New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) deserves scrutiny, especially because he oversees the largest metropolitan city in America – NYC – scrutiny also needs to be given to Gov. Jay Inslee. Washingtonians deserve to know just how deep this runs. Americans deserve to know how this outbreak impacted the rest of the nation, especially since Life Care was where this all started for the United States. And Inslee needs to be held personally accountable for every single one of these deaths.

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Is Jay Inslee the next Andrew Cuomo? Washington state offered funds to nursing homes to accept COVID patients
https://thepostmillennial.com/is-jay-inslee-the-next-andrew-cuomo-washington-state-offered-funds-to-nursing-homes-to-accept-covid-patients

As bombshell revelations are revealed regularly regarding New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's order to send COVID positive patients into elderly care facilities and the subsequent cover up on the number of related deaths, questions are now being asked about other Democrat governors who followed similar plans.

It was revealed in November that Washington Democrat Governor Jay Inslee’s Department of Social and Health Services issued directives to "transition" COVID positive patients to primarily to "alternative settings" with nursing homes being the "primary strategy" in order to "…create capacity for hospitals."  Nursing homes that admitted the COVID positive patients were offered Medicaid funds.

Here is the letter.


There are more letters and documents.

Washington was not alone in offering funds to facilities to accept COVID positive patients. According to The Federalist, many other Democrat controlled states took similar approaches. New York, Michigan, New Jersey, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania "nursing homes were required or encouraged to admit COVID-positive patients."

The outlet cited a report which "found a direct correlation between patients discharged by hospitals and COVID-19 cases." Like Washington, the other states listed have also not been transparent with their data.

Republican state legislators in Michigan have called for investigations into the Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's handling of nursing homes and other long-term care facilities during the pandemic.

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Frankly, when everything's laid-out, Inslee could be characterized as single-handedly starting it. 

There was no logical explanation that the 'original' nursing-home wasn't severely locked-down, since the reports seemed to be credible that authorities had pegged it as a hotspot.  -Followed by the sudden news that at-risk people were being sent to nursing-homes.  Huge WTF-moment 14-months ago.