“We have 0 ICU beds left for children ... Your child will wait for another child to die.”
— The Recount (@therecount) August 13, 2021
— Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins pic.twitter.com/A9nAy78ZUc
“It’s going to be close,” one health official said as a record number of Texas hospitals run out of intensive care beds and warn that they may soon have more COVID-19 patients than they can handle. https://t.co/R2ey0jDaym
— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) August 17, 2021
NEW: As Gov. Greg Abbott receives treatment for COVID-19, he's trying to prevent Texas school districts from requiring masks
— Joshua Fechter 📝 (@JoshuaFechter) August 17, 2021
AG Ken Paxton asked the TX Supreme Court today to disallow mask mandates in Texas schools https://t.co/cMeBdFQqOR @TexasTribune #txlege
“Governor Abbott is receiving Regeneron’s monoclonal antibody treatment” https://t.co/EqyRLyBTDi
— Mike McIntire (@mmcintire) August 17, 2021
More Texas hospitals are reporting a shortage of intensive care beds than at any other time since the COVID-19 pandemic hit the state 18 months ago — just one sign among many that the health crisis is on track to reach its most dangerous phase yet, health officials say.
The latest surge of the virus has also caused new cases and COVID-19 hospitalizations to rise with record speed to just below their January peaks, as the highly contagious delta variant rips through the unvaccinated community at a rate up to eight times faster than earlier strains, officials said.
While Abbott and Paxton remain focussed on what matters:
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton wants the state’s highest civil court to disallow mask mandates in Texas school districts.
Paxton asked the Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday to overrule a Travis County judge who over the weekend allowed mask mandates to proceed in any school district in the state.
State District Judge Jan Soifer issued temporary restraining orders against Gov. Greg Abbott’s ban on mask mandates, clearing the way for Harris County and eight school districts to enact their own mask-wearing rules. Soifer also barred Abbott from enforcing his order “against Texas independent school districts.” Abbott, who is vaccinated, tested positive for the coronavirus Tuesday but is not experiencing any symptoms.
Seems fair.
Well, when you put it that way, it just sounds bad.Perfectly put. https://t.co/VezqKLltvI
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) August 18, 2021
I am stuck hoping I'm right and there is a hell for such people. There might be an argument that would sway even a die-hard death-penalty opponent that officials who knowingly and amorally get people killed, especially young children should be drawn and quartered so as to discourage their like in the future. The prospect of not winning reelection isn't doing the job.
ReplyDelete