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I sincerely hope every Texan who suffered like this on Abbott’s watch appears in ads for his D opponent in the next election. This level of dereliction of duty should have consequences.
DAMN them…and Abbott ran out and opened up the state to cover his sorry ass. These people are … evil.
AGW it seems, is a comorbidity.
Don’t know if it’s the same in the original piece, but there are two glaring name omissions in this, oh ye editors.
In the original article, they didn’t name the woman either. But they did have an embedded link that most likely did: (The link is to the lawsuit paperwork.)
One woman said she was diagnosed with a fairly minor case of COVID-19 in early February. But after more than two days in her frigid Houston home without power or heat, she said, her symptoms became severe.
And they had a photo of Marin.
There was a story here about a man who was on a breathing machine and had to plug into his car to keep it going and his wife was frantic. She called the local news and they played the recording and it was so heartbreaking.
People should not have gone through this shit in a first world country - this was 3d world shit and so is the dropping of all COVID restrictions. Brazil without the beaches or the fabulous bums.
Americans of a certain stripe have short memories.
I don’t know - this was real trauma and people don’t forget real trauma like this. Probably some of them are still having PTSD from it.
ThEy shouLdve puLLed themselVes up bY theiR bootstrapS and made theiR oWn oxygen. MAYbe theY shouLd of thoughT of thaT before ThEy got Covid. WhiCh is fake in any eveNt.
If you’ve ever been in a position where you think you are saying a final goodbye to your loved ones, you don’t forget it. Trust me on this one.
Yes I totally believe that.
O/T but some good news
White evangelicals least likely faith group to get COVID vaccine - The Christian Post
Governor Abbott is guilty of murder. Pure and simple.
Good thing the magical, benevolent hand of the free market swooped in to save them, as it so often does.
Yeah.
The hand of the free market place almost froze us all to death.
“God has me covered…” …in 6ft of dirt.
So bizarre. I didn’t know until just a a few minutes ago that Abbott was in a wheel chair. Googled to find out why and get a brief explanation and learn of him suing and getting millions in a law suit over it. And yet he seems to be still trying to get more money and causing others to suffer as much and more than he has doing it. What a crazy fucked up world full of crazy fucked up people!
I presume the Republicans survived by burning their last remaining bootstraps. (Sorry – I’m a little angry about the Texas debacle.)
