The Covid Chronicles

Rachel Maddow sounds the alarm about Mississippi https://t.co/kITWQD6Xh0

— Raw Story (@RawStory) August 13, 2021

The hospital system in Mississippi is on the verge of collapse. Gee, why would that be?

Governor Tate is quite the dick https://t.co/rL7EbEZIyg

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) August 13, 2021

Poor Gov. DeSantis can’t even leave home.

DeSantis cancels planned appearance at Nevada fundraiser as COVID hospitalizations continue record surgehttps://t.co/kmA6tfEa5d

— Raw Story (@RawStory) August 13, 2021

But he’s giving Gov. Tate a challenge for who’s the bigger dick:

A DeSantis spox told me the gov is protecting "individual rights from unscientific mandates promoted by overreaching politicians who are desperate to give the appearance of ‘doing something’ even if it has no effect.”

But the CDC says mask mandates work. https://t.co/cJbvDvvwFp

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 13, 2021

What are they protecting? Covid?

Elsewhere:

Trump praises Tennessee's GOP governor even as state runs out of hospital beds for COVID patientshttps://t.co/FSD7ljnYD8

— Raw Story (@RawStory) August 13, 2021

Georgia county shuts down all of its schools for two weeks after mass COVID-19 outbreakhttps://t.co/ViQQUOHX99

— Raw Story (@RawStory) August 13, 2021

Frantic parents search for options to keep kids safe in Texas schools https://t.co/7QJDzw5eyW

— Raw Story (@RawStory) August 13, 2021

I’m beginning to think Covid doesn’t care about our freedumb. Or our politics.