Today on the Matt Wall Show, a huge portion of COVID-19 deaths across the world have been in

nursing homes. So why didn't the government focus especially on protecting those vulnerable

groups in those homes rather than shutting down all of society? And why did New York actually

force nursing homes to take coronavirus patients, which is a huge scandal, by the way, we'll talk

about that. And five headlines, including a heroic salon owner who now faces jail time for

refusing to close her business. And she had some words for the judge during her sentencing that

you have to hear. So we'll play that for you. But first, on this issue of nursing homes,

you know, it was obvious very early on that nursing homes were especially and uniquely vulnerable to

COVID-19. Remember back in March, when the virus was running roughshod through nursing homes in

Washington state, killing hundreds of elderly people. And this was after it had already been

made known based on data in China and Italy and other places. This is a virus that particularly

affects the elderly. And that's not a fact that anyone, especially anybody in government,

can claim to be surprised by. In fact, that's maybe the one fact about COVID that everyone

knew early on and that hasn't changed. There are a lot of things about COVID-19 that have changed

or a lot of things we thought we knew that turned out not to be correct. This is the one thing that

has remained a constant is that it is something that inflicts especially the elderly and especially

those who are nursing homes. This is an important point because when you look around the country

and around the world after many weeks of this, months of this, nursing homes still stand out as

hot spots for the disease. So here are some facts to put this all in context. The Guardian reported

back in April that, quote, about half of all COVID-19 deaths appear to be happening in care homes

in some European countries, according to early figures gathered by UK-based academics,

who are warning that the same effort must be put into fighting the virus in care homes as

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