This could be the future facing all of us soon.
Courtesy of Alabama Political Reporter:
Alabama saw its largest single-day increase in new COVID-19 cases Monday, according to the state, as daily case counts continue an upward trend and hospitals across the state report increasing hospitalizations.
Alabama blew past 15,000 confirmed cases of the virus on Monday, according to the Department of Public Health’s daily case count. The state had confirmed more than 3,200 new cases in the last seven days, according to APR‘s tracking.
By Tuesday evening, the total reached 15,650. The rising case counts are concerning doctors and public health experts who worry the public is not taking the virus as seriously since the state lifted restrictions.
“I’m afraid that we’re going to have to go through some pretty tough times to drive the message home that this virus is still here, and it’s not going away,” said Dr. Michael Saag, an infectious disease expert at UAB.
More than 400 new cases were confirmed daily, on average, during the week heading into Memorial Day, the highest level since the pandemic began and much higher than during the second and third weeks of April, when Alabama was under a stay-at-home order and expected to reach what was then thought to be a peak.
Gov. Kay Ivey lifted the state’s “stay-at-home” order on April 30, replacing it with a “safer-at-home” order that loosened restrictions. Since then, the state has twice more relaxed restrictions, allowing more businesses, churches and entertainment venues to reopen with social-distancing restrictions and sanitation guidelines.
The state saw its largest single-day increase in new cases Monday at 646 new cases, according to the Alabama Department of Public Health’s daily case totals, a little more than three weeks after the stay-at-home order expired on April 30 and two weeks after the state allowed restaurants and bars to reopen on May 11 with social-distancing restrictions.
We should see these cases rising in other states as a warning about what is definitely heading our way if we do not slowly and safely deal with relaxing social distancing measures.
The first thing that needs to happen is that our citizens need to be educated and provided with the materials to help them stay safe.
And we should be testing EVERYBODY at this point, and not waiting for them to get sick first.
If we do not handle this second wave carefully we could all be sitting around wishing this was only a zombie apocalypse.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/conservative-radio-coronavirus-limbaugh-fox-trump_n_5ec29324c5b637e3d2d33e04
Limbaugh is the top-rated talk radio host in the country. Among conservative Republicans, he is the second most trusted source for news, behind only Fox News.
Pence has repeatedly appeared on Limbaugh’s show since the start of the coronavirus outbreak, and Limbaugh claims that President Donald Trump calls him on a weekly basis. conservative talk radio is an immensely important part of the pro-Trump media ecosystem…while validating their audience’s grievances.
“One of the roles of Rush Limbaugh is to bridge that distance, trying to convince listeners that either Trump knows what he’s doing or is being misled by those around him, but that he himself is not wrong,” Trump is an active participant himself, already beginning to use conservative radio shows to target voters ahead of the November election and shape the narrative around his coronavirus response. rump said of the virus, which at the time of his interview had killed nearly 90,000 Americans. “If you’re old or you have diabetes or you’re not in good shape it’s a different thing, but so few people. You see all the bad cases on television.”
The call-in segments are also where conspiracy theories tend to thrive, which can result in unchecked misinformation about the virus being broadcast to millions of people.
“There’s much more space to float a variety of different conspiracy theories when they’re coming from calls,” Hemmer said. “This happens all the time on Limbaugh’s show.”
$he will “probably write in Jeff Sessions.”
In her own extended Twitter rant, Coulter lashed out at Trump, calling him, among other things, “a complete blithering idiot,” “a shallow and broken man” and “the most disloyal actual retard that has ever set foot in the Oval Office.” – Lamenting the president’s proclivity for sending “trash tweets,” she added that his presidency has been a disappointment “to all of his supporters, whom he has done nothing for.” “He’s a big betrayer and those tend not to do well in politics,”- “Could be it would be better to just get him out of office.”
Coulter said she is particularly enraged that Trump is targeting Sessions amid his campaign to win back his former Senate seat in Alabama. She pointed out that Democrats appear poised to retake control of the Senate, making it all the more stunning to see the president undermine Sessions publicly.
“There would be more decorum if you put Zippy the Chimp in the White House,”
https://www.businessinsider.com/texas-gop-chair-trump-can-hold-in-person-rnc-texas-2020-5
They eat a lot of meat in Alabama. Maybe now they will change
Good. Hold the Death Party convention there.
Don’t expect California to send you ventilators and PPE. We’re done providing you Covidiot red states with welfare. Ask Trump for them. BTW he’s shipping ventilators and PPE to RUSSIA! Now you know why Jared was intercepting and confiscating shipments to hospitals and the Veteran’s Administration.
https://news.yahoo.com/russia-welcomes-delivery-ventilators-u-142619500.html?guccounter=2
“The United States delivered its first batch of coronavirus humanitarian aid, including dozens of ventilators, to Russia this week. The delivery came just weeks after Russia sent a similar shipment to the U.S., and as both countries continue to battle the spread of COVID-19.
The U.S. Embassy in Moscow said on Thursday that 50 ventilators had arrived in the Russian capital as part of the $5.6 million humanitarian package. A total of 200 U.S.-manufactured ventilators were to be delivered, including a second batch expected to arrive next week.”
“Russia was forced to suspend use of one model of domestically produced ventilator after two deadly hospital fires earlier this month. Six COVID-19 patients died at an intensive care unit (ICU) in St. Petersburg and one in Moscow in those blazes. Investigations are continuing, but there were suggestions that both incidents may have been caused by faulty ventilators.
Dozens of ventilators of the model in question were part of Russia’s humanitarian aid delivery to the U.S., but the Federal Emergency Management Agency said they were never used.”
So they sent us their crap ventilators and we’re sending them our good ventilators that are needed here.
So Alabama. You going to replace Doug Jones with Jeff Sessions? If you do, you deserve exactly what you voted for.
“The U.S. government said it had purchased the supplies sent by Russia, while Moscow said the costs were covered by the Russian Direct Investment Fund.
In addition, the Russian ventilators sent to the U.S. were produced by a plant owned by a company among those sanctioned by the U.S. government following Moscow’s annexation of Crimea in 2014.”
It just gets better and better. We paid for crap from a company we sanctioned. Welcome to the Trump Administration.
“On Thursday evening, Russian state-run television lauded the arrival of the U.S. supplies as “a return act of good will.” The report showed the cargo being unloaded, with logos of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) visible on the goods, at a Moscow airport.
The report failed to mention that the U.S. aid agency was forced to suspend operations in Russia in 2012, after two decades of work there, when the Russian government accused it and other U.S.-funded NGOs of meddling in domestic politics.”
Morbidly Obese ButT of course.