Waseca nursing home sues woman over claims that COVID testing is to ‘kill our elderly’

A woman’s widely viewed posts warn that residents’ lives are in peril due to testing amid “fake pandemic.” 

A southern Minnesota nursing home has sued a resident’s relative, alleging that she has said to thousands of people on Facebook that the senior facility is testing residents for COVID-19 in an effort to try to kill them.

The Lake Shore Inn Nursing Home in Waseca also contends in the lawsuit filed Monday that Renae Groskreutz defamed the 55-bed senior center in a video posted in late July when she said they’re testing without proper permission for what she says is a “fake pandemic” and called on everyone to avoid testing and skip wearing a mask.

Groskreutz, of Waldorf, Minn., added to her “smear campaign” by saying that nursing home personnel “don’t need your DNA,” the suit, filed in Waseca County District Court, pointed out. Continue reading.