Swammerdami
Squadron Leader
I summarize the first few minutes of these Rachel Maddow highlights.
Remember when right-wingers were shrieking that Obama would appoint death panels to ration care, and send Grandma to the death camps? Well, the U.S. has death panels now, but they are mostly in red states. We think of ICU's as the hospital ward for the patients in greatest need, but the neediest in North Idaho are given minimal care, even left in corridors. The goal is to save the ICU beds for less ill patients, more likely to survive. (Nurses as well as beds, are in short supply in some regions due to some medical personnel quitting in response to dangers and abuse.) Despite this triage, 95% of ICU patients in Idaho are unvaccinated.
In Central Idaho the distinguished Dr. Ted Epperly has been kicked off the District Health Board (not yet relabeled as Death Panel) and replaced with Dr. Ryan Cole. Cole (an Ivermectin advocate) calls Covid vaccines "needle rape" and "a Poisonous attack on our population [which] needs to stop now."
The Governor of Idaho has made addressing the Covid crisis a priority. He is calling a special session of the legislature and charging it to PROHIBIT mask or vaccination mandates for health workers!
Just when I thought Republicans had plumbed the utter depths of human stupidity, I see something like this and learn that their stupidity has no limits.
0.3% of the population of Mississippi has already died of Covid-19 (probably more, since GOP governments lie) and its death rate is still accelerating; Louisiana is close behind.
Remember when right-wingers were shrieking that Obama would appoint death panels to ration care, and send Grandma to the death camps? Well, the U.S. has death panels now, but they are mostly in red states. We think of ICU's as the hospital ward for the patients in greatest need, but the neediest in North Idaho are given minimal care, even left in corridors. The goal is to save the ICU beds for less ill patients, more likely to survive. (Nurses as well as beds, are in short supply in some regions due to some medical personnel quitting in response to dangers and abuse.) Despite this triage, 95% of ICU patients in Idaho are unvaccinated.
In Central Idaho the distinguished Dr. Ted Epperly has been kicked off the District Health Board (not yet relabeled as Death Panel) and replaced with Dr. Ryan Cole. Cole (an Ivermectin advocate) calls Covid vaccines "needle rape" and "a Poisonous attack on our population [which] needs to stop now."
The Governor of Idaho has made addressing the Covid crisis a priority. He is calling a special session of the legislature and charging it to PROHIBIT mask or vaccination mandates for health workers!
Just when I thought Republicans had plumbed the utter depths of human stupidity, I see something like this and learn that their stupidity has no limits.
0.3% of the population of Mississippi has already died of Covid-19 (probably more, since GOP governments lie) and its death rate is still accelerating; Louisiana is close behind.
