Wonder if he’ll do it before, or after, the State GOP Convention. And then I made the mistake of checking Abbott’s Twitter feed:Several Texas cities are worried their hospitals may run out of beds in two weeks or sooner.— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) July 6, 2020
Some officials are now urging Gov. Greg Abbott to empower local governments to issue stay-at-home orders. https://t.co/UiyakN1j2M
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) June 29, 2020
I just think he’s got matters closer to home to worry about. While Texas still has 13,307 beds and over 1200 ICU beds statewide, nobody lives statewide. We live in cities, and those cities are running out of vacancies. Houston yesterday had used 103% of its ICU space. Sunday morning that crisis had abated. We were at 99% capacity.President Trump speaking about Mount Rushmore:— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) July 4, 2020
“This monument will never be desecrated. These heroes will never be defaced! Their legacy will never, ever be destroyed!”
What a sight that monument is.#4thofJuly
Can’t say I really give a shit about any threats to “desecrate” Mt. Rushmore. It’s not a holy place, anyway. Except to certain Native American tribes. But they consider the monument the desecration; or at least a treaty violation.
I’m also not sure how we “end” viruses coming out of China. That horse is out of the barn, and that barn has burned down. Unless Gov. Abbott wants to make vegans of us all. Really, he needs to focus on the problems he’s responsible for.
Stay safe. It's really about availability of a bed at your hospital. https://mobile.twitter.com/keithboykin/status/1279924971146485760
ReplyDeleteTexas Doctor: I got 10 calls yesterday for young people who will die if they don’t get ICU support, but I only have three beds left.
We are already deciding who gets to live and who dies.
Before I came here to read this I read about the bubonic plague story out of China. It buried what should have been the first paragraph in the story noting that there were annually about a half dozen cases in the US, most of them originating in the South West of the country. The potential for pandemic diseases rises wherever animal husbandry is undertaken, so anywhere in the world. The media selling this as a Chinese problem is contributing to the racist use of the issue.
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