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The nursing home in question was referred to as the Valley Springs nursing home, but the report indicated that it has operated under multiple names, so if it still exists the name may have changed.
According to the men they remained and worked around the clock (only taking short breaks) to bath/feed the residents and distribute medications as best they could while waiting for the state to arrive and take over. Eventually one of the residents started having medical complications and they were forced to call 9/11. This is what led to the authorities finally showing up to help the residents.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/valley-springs-manor-closes_n_6223160
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/castro-valley-nursing-home-shut-down-patients-abandoned/1957679/
trhopkins
Awesome People!
AuntieBeer
rbudrick
Tbh, why wasn't 911 called at the first minute? And why is no one in jail?
Wrinkle666
Heroes
SpikesGuns
If they had a gofundme I would gladly donate
SpikesGuns
Oh shit, found it. Kinda. 11 years old so...maybe?
hotrodny
Privatization is nice...not.
VaultGirl69
Battles against the orphan crushing machine should make us also feel deeply ashamed.
algavinn
I hear at this point one is on the 9th level of the dungeon and is a golem. He doesn't talk much but he's a friend of the Royal Court of Donut.
SquirrelWithATophat
I get that reference. I'm eagerly awaiting the next book to come out.
algavinn
I hoped someone would :D Me too. I just found them last month, marathoned all on audiobook (a fantastic medium for it). Next is out October? But audiobook is by year end.
H2ONerd
Hell yeah, Em and Yeezy takin care of the elderly gives me the dopamine I need to walk over to the coffee pot!
moodytravesty
and I'm guessing that as a reward they arrested them for distributing medicine with a license?
SquirrelWithATophat
I suspect at least some officials were probably tempted to do so, but realized that if they tried to they would have been sued into oblivion by the families of all the residents those workers saved, or perhaps even have their lives seriously threatened for pulling such a dick move.
SteveTheEgg
How is shit like this A legally allowed to happen, and B not earning these two a fucking governors accommodation and giant fucking payout? Like maybe if we started, idk punishing bad people and awarding good people society would be better, but I'm probably just crazy.
SquirrelWithATophat
In my experience as an abuse/trauma survivor, it's largely because too many of the "good" people actively choose to ignore bad things happening or when people do good, selfless deeds to help others. Many of them only acknowledge such things when they can make themselves look better by doing so. Like when someone tries making themself look better by making sure everyone around them sees them giving a server a big tip or donating $100 note to a charity deposit box in front of a store.
slidewhistlesymphony
Saving this to show my wife who is a nursing home RN.
CaptainKipup
If true the nursing home owners are pretty much up for prison time. You can’t just walk away and let people in care starve to death.
SquirrelWithATophat
Unless you're super rich, sadly.
I don't know what happened to the owners after that, but it appears that there were plenty of people demanding they face criminal charges. Especially the ones who couldn't find their elderly relatives who became lost in the system after being kicked out and nobody could figure out where they were. The following year new laws for regulating retirement homes and similar facilities were passed specifically to prevent shit like this from ever happening again though.
EroticZombiePants
The evil part was the owners abandoning them. The sad part was none of the caregivers staying or even checking in after they lost their jobs.
Styxwash
Not everyone can afford to work for free, sadly. People have their own family, kids, elderly. It doesn't mean they were all bad people, just that they might have had other responsibilities.
MyFavColorIsGlitter
The pic says "a few weeks" but the article linked says "two days"
CNChapeL
And there was 3 of them, not two.
SquirrelWithATophat
The third one was listed as a caretaker at the facility. It might be that they weren't named because they didn't want to be associated with all the other caretakers who abandoned the residents.
SquirrelWithATophat
You are correct. I think it was probably a typo. Some writing software has an annoying habit of auto suggesting or auto populating what it thinks you're about to write. That's one of the reasons I try to always proofread everything I post in comments or chat applications.
Hexidimentional
either way an absurd feat and sad they had to do it
threepotatoesinatrenchcoat
Why didn't they call 911 on the first day?
SquirrelWithATophat
Given the nature of the notices they received and saw posted everywhere around the building they were likely under the assumption that the authorities were already on their way. It wasn't until they realized they could not safely wait any longer for them to arrive that they called 911 for more immediate assistance.
masteryoplait
Legends
themanwhoisalternatelyrudeandpolite
It wasn't a "a few weeks" it was just two days according to the article. The order was put in effect on the Friday and the staff called 911 on Sunday.
NerdNerdburger
Oh good
SquirrelWithATophat
As I mentioned earlier to someone else it appears that was likely a typo caused by the auto populate or auto suggest feature writing software often has these days. I run into that type of typo fairly often with the various software I use for work and it's quite annoying. It's part of the reason I always proofread everything I write at least twice.
JustinWasHere
I grew up in that town!
UchihaAuggie
# Orphan Killing machine
TheMajinVegeta
meganical
Somebody post that meme about American uplifting stories ignoring a sad, messed-up reality like an orphan-crushing machine that shouldn’t exist
tallyhoho
I'm glad there are people willing to go above and beyond to help others
idiotsonfire
So am I. We can praise them, while also hating the system that required this to happen in the first place. Walk, and chew gum at once.
tallyhoho
Sometimes things are messed up and it's not one person or things fault. Shit just goes wrong. Hopefully there is someone there to help
camn333
YellowSparrow
The state government ordered the facility to close, dusted their hands, and never checked back? Really, aside from how horrible the home was, seems like someone in some taxpayer-funded agency needs to be fired. Maybe several someones.
jumpbus360
Once they called 911 there was a record of it. Now someone was on the hook for it. But maybe find the ownership and take all their money.
bixby66
"We could have just called 911 the whole time!?"
SasquatschXXL
People being bros, just when all seems like f¥(k (just tuning' to the news makes me wanna puke big time 🌎=🤢
lowkeylives
I guess that's one way to look at it, but they only had the opportunity to step up because the world is shit
RobbieRodriguez
Ane no medal. No money. Nothing they got for it. Maybe both parries fan put a trust fund for life expenses for each with 5 million. That church with Lamborghini guy maybe.
pixelsnader
False. They got awards from the Veterans Association and the state of California. An anonymous donor compensated their wages and then some. They got a lot of donations from the population. They instantly got a bunch of job offers (which the other employees likely didn't.
The closure was a shitshow (how the fuck can a care home be closed with people still living there) but to say these two got nothing is disingenuous. The actual issue is that leadership/ownership likely saw no real consequences.
Hukkie
If the authorities give them medals for it, that would be not just admitting what a massive fuck-up the entire situation was, but also shining a giant spotlight on it. Now this did not pass unnoticed, but they sure as shit did not want to parade it through the media and thus point out just how worthless they are.
Those guys saved lives, they are the type of people we should all aspire to be, and they should have gotten recognized for it by the authorities.
chicharrone
Sadly, these are the stories you won't widely hear about because of their melanin. I'm glad I hear about it here, though.
EpicInoino
Seems like unnecessary hate mongering. This won't get any traction simply because it's good news and only sad news spread
Godawful8888
No. I heard about these heros when the story was unfolding. Plenty of racism in the US but this isn't it
PonyMadness
Fuck off with this bullshit. This was all over the news when it happened back in 2013. It was even featured on my local news station several states away.
BeetsMakeMyPooRed
Are you absolutely certain this isn't just the premise for a Walking Dead episode?
wildwestpb
Life imitated art - S1Ep4 “Vatos” was in 2010. This was 2013.
POTUSBrown
Hmm could have swarn the episode was about this incident.
wildwestpb
I know, right? If I hadn’t checked for myself, I was right there with your thinking too.
wildwestpb
I thought this was a joke, since they used the same premise in The Walking Dead - S1Ep4 “Vatos.” Nope… sadly, very real. I hope they have a very good life for what they did for those folks.
dffksh
More likely state bureaucracy: "No, wait! That makes us look bad so that's illegal. Fines and jail time for you!"
Hashbrown123
I think this is what inspired that storyline.
wildwestpb
The episode aired in 2010, 3 years before this happened. Crazy shit.
TilSovngarde
I thought the same thing
SJBSavageInk
Honestly if those people had any faculties left they should have left any worldly possessions to them. Their kids didn't even show up.
QotU
Keeping in mind, some elderly were absolute cunts to their children. My ACE score is an 8/10. My mom can suck it. If she wanted care when she is close to the grave, she should have cared when I was in the cradle.
bwizzle360
What’s an ACE score?
Markuspsyches
https://www.ncjfcj.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/Finding-Your-Ace-Score.pdf
JabesMcJabesface
Never heard of an ACE score before, now I am curious if I should look it up or avoid it.
Markuspsyches
Adverse Childhood Experiences
JabesMcJabesface
Thank you
Paul8783
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RZPRmyU3ATY
wildwestpb
That was great, I hadn’t seen that deleted scene, and just learned about it tonight looking up the episode info.
Paul8783
I often wondered of them cause I figured they’d go back and maybe get help from them at some point season 2 or 3, delete scenes would’ve painted that picture that humans are the real villains then walkers.
wildwestpb
Yeah, I read some of the comics, it always seemed like the zombies were just environmental hazards, people were always going to be the main villains, unlike The Crossed, in which those crazies were both villains and an environmental hazard.
bdennis3222000
Zombies like bears or lions are apex predators. Man has always learned how to deal with apex predator’s but we are the real danger. The real danger is man and his fear of starving or dying. A man will do anything to stay alive as long as he can. Including killing someone for food or shelter. That was the whole point of the Governor, Negan and all of the other’s.