who "owns" my mother?
My mother, a senior citizen, is in assisted living retirement in CA. Due to lockdown, I have not been inside her room since March :(.
Although therapists have gained access to her room this fall, I have not. I am also a health care provider, however, this fact means nothing to management.
The retirement facility tests for COVID each week (OK, whatever), and have promised me that vaccines will arrive in January. I feel I have no control at all in this matter.
Because of
https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2020/08/health/coronavirus-vaccine-race-intl/
(I don't want a "race"!! I want (insist) on a scientific, methodological production of a vaccine). This article also says it should take at least 4 yrs for one to develop.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/11/white-house-threatens-to-fire-fda-chief-unless-covid-vaccine-oked-friday-report.html
this vaccine should be developed/ released independent of political pressure.
I can wait before accepting this vaccine. I personally have already been vaccinated for influenza this year, and had another injection last year, so I'm not "anti-vaxxer".
So, does the county and/ or state "own" my mother, that they can make all pandemic decisions for her, regardless of family wishes?
I would like some control and authority (i.e. "ownership") (especially as "power of attorney for health care") over medical procedures performed.
Thank you (I think) to all who answered. I put "owns" in quotations for a reason. My provider type is listed in the essential workforce list of our state, and I do not need to convince or prove to any reader here of my qualifications.
What no one is telling me is probably true:
Accept what I cannot change, still feels like an abandonment of duty