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COVID Thread 2: Operation Ludicrous Speed ! (Super Political!!!)

Rural Areas Send Their Sickest Patients To The Cities, Straining Hospital Capacity


Registered nurse Pascaline Muhindura has spent the last eight months treating COVID-19 patients at Research Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri.

But when she returns home to her small town of Spring Hill, Kansas, she's often stunned by what she sees, like on a recent stop for carryout.

"No one in the entire restaurant was wearing a mask," Muhindura says. "And there's no social distancing. I had to get out, 'cause I almost had a panic attack. I was like 'What is going on with people? Why are we still doing this?'"

Many rural communities across the U.S. have resisted masks and calls for social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic, but now rural counties are experiencing record-high infection and death rates

Critically ill rural patients are often sent to city hospitals for high-level treatment, and as their numbers grow, some urban hospitals are buckling under the added strain...


... Hospital leaders have continued to plead with Missouri's Republican Governor Mike Parson, and with Kansas's conservative legislature, to implement stringent, statewide mask requirements but without success.

Parson won the Missouri gubernatorial election on Nov. 3 by nearly 17 points. Two days later at a COVID-19 briefing, he accused critics of "making the mask a political issue." He says county leaders should decide whether to close businesses or mandate masks.

"We're going to encourage them to take some sort of action," he said Thursday. "The holidays are coming and I as governor of the state of Missouri am not going to mandate who goes in your front door."...


... Now, a recent local case spike in the Kansas City metro area is adding to the statewide surge in Missouri, with an average of 190 COVID patients per day being admitted to the metro region's hospitals. The number of people hospitalized throughout Missouri increased by more than 50% in the last two weeks.

Some Kansas City hospitals have had to divert patients for periods of time, and some are now delaying elective procedures, according to University of Kansas Hospital chief medical officer Dr. Steven Stites.

But bed space isn't the only hospital resource that's running out. Half of the hospitals in the Kansas City area are now reporting "critical" staffing shortages. Pascaline Muhindura, the nurse who works in Kansas City, says that hospital workers are struggling with anxiety and depression.

"The hospitals are not fine, because people taking care of patients are on the brink," Muhindura says. "We are tired."
 
For those who would like lockdowns but want to defund/abolish/acab the police. How should lockdowns be enforced without law enforcement?

It is incredibly easy for a local government to shut down a business without one police officer. Massive fines accompanied with loss of permits and that business is toast. You wouldn't need one police officer to enforce it on the front in. Just let the criminals who run the place know it will be dead in six months.
 
 
And the deniers will claim to be victims.
 
But they are. What has Biden been doing since February?
 
Somebody help me understand why the NC mouth breathers act like Governor Cooper is personally going to be posted outside of people's homes making sure there are only a few people celebrating Thanksgiving.
 
President-elect Biden is reaching out to New Zealand PM Ardern for help dealing with COVID.
 
President-elect Biden is reaching out to New Zealand PM Ardern for help dealing with COVID.

Wait. Bidden values experience and expertise rather than just going with his gut about everything? Interesting.
 
Wait. Bidden values experience and expertise rather than just going with his gut about everything? Interesting.

what kind of weak leader did we elect who doesn't know more than the experts? we're going to listen to scientists and generals now? LAME
 
https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-hospitals/were-drowning-covid-cases-flood-hospitals-in-americas-heartland-idUSKBN2841K3

Medical workers told Reuters that denial about the disease is frustratingly common among public officials, community members and even patients.

One patient at SSM Health in Janesville, Wisconsin, refused to believe COVID-19 was a serious threat, even as it consumed him, said Dr. Alison Schwartz, an infectious disease physician there. When he died, “the family did not want to admit this patient had died of COVID, because they didn’t believe COVID kills people,” she said.

This is sad. It did not have to happen. A certain percentage of people would have come up with this kind of nonsense conspiracy theory on their own, but the President/cult leader amplifying it nonstop for 8 months has increased this belief system a thousand fold and directly led to the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans.
 
The lamestream media reports that people are dying from COVID so it can’t be true.
 
 
4200 new cases in NC today with 64 deaths. Mid December is going to be bleak judging by how many people I know (most) getting together for thanksgiving.
 
4200 new cases in NC today with 64 deaths. Mid December is going to be bleak judging by how many people I know (most) getting together for thanksgiving.

It's going to be brutal. There will be many areas that will run out of beds and ICU space. Avoid people at all costs.
 
City folks should be able to hoard their hospital space the same way rural folks hoard their food in a crisis.
 
If you travel for Thanksgiving or Christmas this year, you should be put at the end of the line for the vaccine.
 
If you are travelling (driving, not flying) for Thanksgiving, but not doing it to see family, are you still to be shunned? Asking for a friend...
 
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