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– News covered by Quincy Quarry News with commentary added.
A socially distant management style?
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Quincy COVID-19 pandemic deaths hit at least seventy.
As the South Shore broadsheet has for reasons unknown taken a break in publishing its near daily updates on COVID-19 pandemics statistics and thus Quincy Quarry has no other choice than to work with the data announced via Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch’s most recent and socially distant YouTube video COVID-19 presentation.
Accordingly, Quincy Quarry is unable to discern if Tuesday’s YouTube mention by Mayor Koch of a new total of seventy local COVID-19 deaths was the result of tabulating the local share of Monday’s reported dip to 105 deaths statewide or through Tuesday’s additional 150 reported deaths blip.
Quincy City Hall closed to the public during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Regardless of which date the seventy deaths pandemic death toll for Quincy is as of, Quincy Quarry can state that Quincy Mayor Koch has been loath to acknowledge: the fact that Quincy’s COVID-19 death rate per 100,000 is running either 59% or 67% greater than the statewide COVID-19 fatality rate per 100,000.
Also not mentioned by the mayor is how in at least recent weeks Quincy has averaged a COVID-19 death rate per 100,000 significantly greater than the state’s average rate.
The Grim Reaper never rests
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Further not mentioned is how Quincy continues to be the top COVID-19 fatalities larger municipality hot spot in a county that is the top hot spot COVID-19 county in the designated hot spot state that is Massachusetts.
Granted, while at least Brockton has to date suffered a higher death rate per 100,000 to date than has Quincy, Quincy is still on the short list of larger towns and cities in Massachusetts when it comes to the only proper to use per 100,000 death rate metric to make valid comparisons,
The former Quincy Hospital
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In Mayor Koch’s recent YouTube, the mayor also addressed how his earlier proposal to reopen the long closed and then sold to a private developer former Quincy Medical Center was not going to happen.
In all too typical Kochian walking back from the facts, the mayor endeavored to couch that the decision to not reopen the hospital was an external decision rather than that his proposal was a thoroughly impractical, if not also dumb idea, in the first place and which was then quickly as well as duly noted by Quincy Quarry as well as also incisively critiqued by a known local gadfly as not gonna happen.
Accordingly, it must be noted that at least this time the mayor was not allowed to see tax dollars profligately wasted on one of his dubious grand notions.
And finally, Mayor Koch yet again made mention of a considerable number of COVID-19 fatalities at a local long term care facility in this latest YouTube in a fashion that at least hinted of spin to attempt downplay Quincy’s well above the state average for COVID-19 fatalities on a per 100,000 basis.
Reality: the percentage of Quincy COVID-19 fatalities tied to long term care facilities all but mirrors the state average of 58% per the most recent update.
Notice Koch didn’t mention the workers at the E.R. still operating at the former Quincy Medical Center site who are working the front lines and so potentially exposing themselves to the virus every day.
Then again, the E.R. is just an obstacle in his pal Hale’s way for his plans to build a huge apartment project that will ruin Hospital Hill.
Larry:
Our peerless mayor doesn’t mention a lot of things. Surely but a coincidence, however …