Rachel Levine, Pennsylvania’s “transgender” health chief and President Joe Biden’s new assistant secretary of health and human services, backed Governor Tom Wolf’s order for nursing homes to accept Chinese Virus patients.
Result: More than 3,000 dead.
Yet Levine, a pediatrician who claims to be a woman, helped pull his 95-year-old mother out of such a care facility as the pandemic spread. Indeed, it didn’t just spread. It cut down the elderly in what resembled a mass-extinction event.
So the No. 2 health official in the U.S. government might not only be mentally ill, but also partly responsible for a disastrous and deadly public policy.
The Numbers
The death parade of the Keystone State’s elderly began in March, again, on direct orders from Wolf and the kooky queen of his health department.
The Bucks County Courier Times reported what happened two months later, when the bodies began piling up across the northeast. Other governors, mostly famously New York’s Andrew Cuomo, had prescribed death for the aged, too.
“The deadly virus has spread like wildfire through many nursing homes across the Northeast,” the newspaper reported:
The death toll is devastating, according to interviews with nursing-home officials, patients’ families, health-care advocates, government officials and from an examination of state records by the USA Today Network Atlantic Group, a consortium of 37 Gannett-owned daily newspapers across the Northeast.
At least 3,043 people have died inside New York nursing homes due to COVID-19 complications, or about 17% of the state’s 18,015 deaths as of Wednesday.
In Pennsylvania, about 65% of coronavirus deaths were nursing-home residents, and in counties in the hardest hit southeastern part of the state, long-term care residents account for as much as 80% of county deaths.
New Jersey had 3,200 residents of long-term care homes die due to complications from the virus, about 40% of the statewide total.
About 58% of the deaths in Delaware lived in nursing homes, and 46% of the fatalities in Maryland were at nursing homes, prompting Gov. Larry Hogan to order residents and staff members at nursing homes be tested for coronavirus.
Reporters at the Philadelphia Inquirer looked at the state’s numbers, too.
“Deaths in nursing homes and assisted living facilities currently account for more than 68% of all the coronavirus-related fatalities in the state, with 3,086 long-term care residents dead,” the newspaper reported.
Levine’s Mother
Not long after the bad news surfaced, Levine’s mother fled her nursing home.
“While Levine beefs up rules and oversight at nursing homes and long-term care facilities … the health secretary’s mother recently vacated a personal care home in the Midstate,” the ABC affiliate in Harrisburg reported.
Levine had a ready answer: “My mother requested, and my sister and I as her children complied, to move her to another location during the Covid-19 outbreak. My mother is 95 years old. She is very intelligent and more than competent to make her own decisions.”
Maybe, but as the ABC station reported, “many in Harrisburg wondered what kind of message it sends — when a close relative of the person tasked with overseeing those types of facilities doesn’t choose to stay in one.”
Frighteningly, Levine, who ditched his wife and kids to “transition” in 2011, will, again, hold a powerful position in U.S. health policy — second only to the secretary of health and human services.
That means Biden turned U.S. health policy over to a deluded man who denies science. Levine’s unfortunate belief that he is a woman is false, as psychiatry professor Paul McHugh has written. That raises the obvious question of why this man would be permitted to treat one patient, let alone manage public health policy for more than 300 million people.
And recall, the most important decision he has made as a health official helped kill more than 3,000 people.
Levine, whose real name is Richard, vaguely resembles another notable Pennsylvanian, Ben Franklin, although Franklin didn’t dress like a woman.
Whether Biden will propose stamping Levine’s visage on the $100 bill is unknown.
