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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (172176)	7/10/2020 10:01:12 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 354772

"Here's something else that's not happening." Mississippi Hospitals Cannot Take Care of Mississippi Patients Mississippi hospitals are “stretched thin,” and Mississippians “will not be able to get the health care (they) need” as the novel coronavirus outbreak accelerates across the state, top health experts warned during a dire press conference this morning. Already, State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs said, five of the state’s largest hospitals have already run out of ICU beds for critical patients. “At the (University of Mississippi) Medical Center, we are full. Many days, we have more patients than we have rooms,” UMMC Vice Chancellor LouAnn Woodward said as she stood in front of a podium with a poster and the hashtag, “#MaskUpMississippi” covering the front of it. The cast of health experts, which included physicians from across the state as well as representatives from the Mississippi State Department of Health and the Mississippi State Medical Association, warned that at the current rate of COVID-19’s spread, the state risks a New York City-level crisis. “Mississippi hospitals cannot take care of Mississippi patients,” Dr. Dobbs told a room of reporters this morning.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (172176)	7/10/2020 11:38:46 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 354772

I have not followed AZ but I know they're having major issues. Still, in per capita they're at 75% of the NE Democrat states. Texas is 1/16th of NJ. So, "major" means different things when in context. There was never an expectation among rational people that the economy would stay shutdown indefinitely. It should have been reopened after no more than three or four weeks.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (172176)	7/10/2020 11:55:07 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 354772

There is no doubt shutting down the economy slows the spread. But the damage done by the economy being shut down is far worse than the virus. Some people are freaking out in the county I'm in, about 500K population with a total of 500 actives cases. They have no grasp on reality. 1000 active cases could kill 50 people who are aged and feeble, but probably fewer. It could. Of course, these people might have died any way, because they were after all, feeble. And the plain old flu could kill those same 50 in a few months. But we cannot afford nice hospitals with expansive facilities, well-staffed, with great health care workers, all that -- if we don't have a functioning economy. There is a trade off and I think we've done about all that can be done. IF we have to have masks to make people feel safer, then so be it. What is intolerable is the notion of all these states demanding money from the federal government. The federal taxpayers have done what could be done. Now, if Newsom wants to stay shut down, that's on him.