Louisiana Gov Predicts NOLA Will Be Out Of Hospital Beds By April

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) sent a letter to the White House Monday pleading for federal aid as his state drowns in coronavirus cases.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1299515
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Not so fast Governor. You must first do the Donald a favor. It’s a two-way street after all.

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Democratic Governors are on their own.

They chose not to support Trump in 2016, so he’s literally not their president.

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Chop chop…Dear Covidiot Leader wants to reopen America by Easter because…it OK to KAG = Kill American Geriatrics!

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What’s the problem? We’re all going back to work after Easter. We’ll be fine.
Now, can you do me a favor?

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Nate has Trump at the 50% mark of disapproval (44+% approval and rising). Best it’s ever been.

He doesn’t need states with dirty old cities.

Or Democratic governors.

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“Louisiana Gov Pleads For Federal Help…”

Haven’t I seen this film before?

(The remake sucks just as bad as the original.)

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I see now that how he handled Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria was a preview of how he’s been handling/is going to handle this . . . except he doesn’t have any paper towels to throw to people this time.

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Yeah, but he does need electoral votes, and Louisiana went for him in '16.

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S’okay. We are ‘literally’ building hospitals!

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Louisiana is a red state, so, relatively low on awareness/anxiety about the virus, social distancing, etc. It has also done very little testing. And it has a lot of poor people. I fear this may be the leading edge of an enormous outbreak.

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Yes, but they disrespected him by electing a Democratic governor.

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He can throw non-existent hospitals to them.

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Well. Fingers crossed that things don’t get worse in Kansas, then . . .

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Just be nice to Donnie or your people will die.

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Never has it been so obvious what a Potemkin Village this administration is. It’s all a movie front.

Louisianna’s fucked. We’re all fucked. But they are so poor. I can’t imagine the state of their hospitals.

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Sadly assume the position in line Governor don’t know what number you will be,a few ahead of you.Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz

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Louisiana Gov Predicts NOLA Will Be Out Of Hospital Beds By April

Solution: Triple bunks.

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I’m imagining Trump exiting Air Force One in some infected city throwing ventilators instead of paper towel rolls.

I know this is ridiculous, as there is no way he could lift a ventilator, but still . . .

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We are “literally” building hospitals. Trump is “figuratively” a billionaire, and “technically” a leader.

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