This headline should be studied by historians to understand our insane days: “Trump cites game show host Chuck Woolery on pandemic while undercutting doctors and questioning their expertise.” https://t.co/k9MY2rS4XW— John Avlon (@JohnAvlon) July 14, 2020
Perhaps more insane is the party that follows him. This is the situation the Texas GOP fought tooth and nail to drop 6000 people into the midst of:
In Houston, major hospitals have had to treat hundreds of COVID-19 patients in their emergency rooms as they await space in intensive care units. Data shows the dozen busiest hospitals in the area are increasingly telling emergency responders that they cannot safely accept new patients.Because the GOP said they had a "constitutional right" to meet where they'd decided to meet in order to elect delegates to go to a national convention no elected GOP official wants to attend in order to do nothing more than seal the coronation of Donald Trump as the nominee who kills the GOP. When three courts and the Texas AG (!) said they didn't have a case, they finally relented and decided to hold a virtual convention. Finally.
Ripple effects can be felt throughout the region, including at El Campo Memorial Hospital, about 75 miles southwest of Houston.
Under normal circumstances, hospitals in Houston’s world-renowned Texas Medical Center would accept transfers of medically complex patients from smaller regional hospitals that are less equipped to handle them. But with many Houston hospitals diverting patients away, smaller facilities like the 49-bed El Campo Memorial Hospital have taken them on.
On Monday, the hospital was caring for 18 coronavirus patients, including at least two who were admitted from Houston and the Anahuac patient who was transported by helicopter, said Nathan Tudor, chief executive of the Mid Coast Health System, which includes the hospital.
“Traditionally, if the complex cases need to go out, they do go to Houston,” Tudor said. “We’re just praying that this virus gets behind us sooner rather than later.”
I grew up with the metaphor (never tried it, but the brief time I spent around cows didn't disabuse me of the idea) that to get a cow's attention you had to smack it between the eyes with a 2 x 4. It was usually applied to a particularly obtuse person stubbornly clinging to an obviously bad idea. Gonna have to revive that metaphor, it seems. I've stopped caring why people get devoted to spectacularly bad and even dangerous ideas. I've just learned to care that they do.
“You’ll be without a party!”— Sarah Longwell (@SarahLongwell25) July 14, 2020
“That might be, but lots of Americans are independents. It is better to have core principles and then determine which party or candidates you’ll support than to be a captive of one political group.” @JRubinBlogger https://t.co/u91zIIeGj7
When the party, any party, is acting so mindlessly like lemmings, being without one is a survival strategy. I never thought that would be literally true.
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