HOUSTON (AP) — Cars lined up for more than a mile outside a Houston hospital Thursday as the nation’s fourth-largest city began drive-thru testing for the coronavirus, but officials warned they don’t have enough kits or protective gear to meet demand.
Texans are fucked. They are about to have the toxic brew of the largest uninsured population of any state (how is that not expanding medicare looking now), a government with little capacity to address medical or other issues, and a dip shit at the top who is afraid to upset the crazy christian Trump supporters by taking any actions, start to kill and infect people in very large numbers.
Lots of people will die, and it will be interesting to see how it changes people’s perceptions of a stand off, everyone for themselves, approach to government.
Rachel Maddow last night mentioned 7 states NOT taking Covid-19 seriously…TX was one of them!
Will The Irresponsible+Incompetent Russo-installed IMPeetus grovel to WHO to get those 500K test kits that he refused to accept and deliver protective gears from the military reserve! AND more important, to tell those Science/Covid-deniers to STAY-AT-HOME…otherwise, “But your numbers”…will go up more than you care to like!
Will the survivor’s finally turn Texas back to a blue state?
but officials warned they don’t have enough kits
Unpossible. I distinctly remember Trump telling me, in more than one presser, that anyone that wants a test can get one. That every American can get one if they wanted it. Are you implying that he may have stretched the truth a bit?
Stop saying “the vast majority or people recover from the virus”. The 97% recovery rate is going to move closer to the 80% non-hospitalized rate when the hospitals are overwhelmed.
Maybe go with 20% require hospitalization, and of those as much as 20% die (or whatever the numbers). That will more readily lead people to contemplate the serious of getting the infection as well as the implications to themselves when the hospital system is over-whelmed.
new State Motto: “Everything’s Sicker in Texas!”
This doesnt look good at all…
Reality has a liberal bias.
Well for all the gun huggers in this state, they are about to find out it is not an effective tool in warding off this particular home invader.
Until it was mandated last night, all the usual restaurants were mobbed through yesterday.
Yep, gun and ammo sales are going through the roof as an AR-15 is the only known cure for COVID-45.
They will hug their assault weapons and their TP like their children.
You find this a fucking joke? How many States, not local municipalities, have put these restrictions in place?
Hey, those bad brown hombres are coming for their TP, dontcha know?
And their children are buttwipes, too.
Yeah, good bet the rural areas are a mass of dysfunctional views today. I am afraid to ask a friend of mine how he is doing. His wife is a Prepper. And I have to wonder about another mutual friend as well.
Stay safe. And duck…
Possibly! Killing off even a couple percent of the Fox News demographic puts us that much closer to the tipping point. But just because we might turn into a Democratic state does not mean we’ll be a progressive bastion anytime soon.
For the fun of it. We need it.
Lighten up, Francis. Texas can take a joke.
