The moment that Tammy Roberg stepped off the elevator, she could hear her father’s booming voice.
Chester Peske, 98, loved to sit in the lunchroom at Copperfield Hill and talk to the other memory care residents about everything from the weather to the history of the highway that connected his hometown to downtown Minneapolis, 6 miles away. While he had Alzheimer’s disease, Peske still recognized his children when they came to the Robbinsdale, Minnesota, facility for weekly visits.
“He would talk and talk and talk,” Roberg said with a laugh.
Then, in March, there was almost no one that Peske could talk to.
When the pandemic hit, long-term care facilities across the country, including Copperfield Hill, shut their doors to visitors and largely kept residents to their rooms, suspending most group activities and communal meals to protect residents from Covid-19. Peske was hard of hearing, so phone calls were a struggle. Roberg’s only lifeline to her father was the staff of the facility, who reassured her that he was doing well.
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The politicians, including the health dept, and hospital staff are not done with their murders. If they make $9,000 for each corona death, why should they help the elderly and give them company and allow the to socialize?
This concept is already mentioned in the gemara, e.g. תענית כג ע”א, where it says, אמר רבא היינו דאמרי אינשי או חברותא או מיתותא.