I have a friend who lost both of his inlaws to coronavirus thanks to Cuomo's nursing home orders in New York.

So I suppose I should consider myself fortunate that my mother-in-law is still with us in Michigan.

But the outsized praise for Governor Whitmer needs to be doused with ice cold water.

That frigid blast? Her executive order turning nursing homes into overflow centers for Covid patients:

The [Michigan] Senate COVID-19 oversight committee had many questions for the Health and Human Services Department about Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s Emergency Order.

The order creates what they’re calling “regional hubs” and expires on Wednesday. Many members of the senate oversight committee are calling for the governor to change the policy -- calling it an extraordinarily bad policy.

The Department of Health and Human Services gave Local 4 more insight into its regional hub system. There are now 21 of them. The state is paying these homes $5,000 per COVID-19 positive case they take.

We also learned that there are some nursing homes taking these patients that do not have the same strict separation policies that regional hubs are required to have. Only about half of the state’s nursing homes have been inspected since the policy went into effect last month.

HHS Director Robert Gordon originally intended to use the TCF Center instead of the regional hubs -- but then opted out. Detroit State Rep. Leslie Love is stunned that didn’t happen.

“They said the population that would be most affected was our seniors so to not outfit those facilities to handle the very population they said would need it seems ridiculous to me,” she said."

So we send patients to the most vulnerable possible population clusters and don't even bother to check to see if the homes are equipped to take them in.

Involuntary manslaughter is the nicest thing you can call it.

My mother in law's home has been closed to visitors since the second week of March. But coronavirus patients are still rolling in. We'd like to see her before dementia takes away her last memories of us. The longer her home keeps taking in patients, the less good our odds are.