Texas is suffering

Is this true, can it be verified, anyone in the area care to respond?

coach wrote:

Is this true, can it be verified, anyone in the area care to respond?

A quick Google search will verify.

coach wrote:

Is this true, can it be verified, anyone in the area care to respond?

Probably true, but then this county is in the RGV:

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In Texas’s Rio Grande Valley on the Mexico border, where almost every hospital stands overwhelmed with Covid patients, Dr. Ivonne Lopez, Medical Director of the McAllen Hospital Group at McAllen Medical Center told local media that “many” patients had come from Mexico.

“They are coming in because their resources over there are also limited so they are coming in to our area seeking medical attention and by law we have to provide it,” Dr. Lopez said. “The patients that cross the border say ‘we don’t have hospital space over there. The oxygen is gone. We don’t have medications, so we cross the border.’”

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Funny how the explanations for the recent surge in US cases never mention

riots/protests or movement back and forth over the border when those are

almost certainly the main drivers.

Yeah, it has nothing to do with Texas' inability to buy into the steps it takes to curb the disease, but I digress.

GWT wrote:

Yeah, it has nothing to do with Texas' inability to buy into the steps it takes to curb the disease, but I digress.

I've been all over Texas this summer and no one has seen overwhelmed hospitals except the valley area where this report is from. As a matter of fact, even the DFW/Houston areas where we supposedly had a surge in cases we still had plenty of empty beds. Don't get to thinking you know what's happening in Texas from one border city news article that has a bias.

I've literally only had 1 person I know that says they had covid and that person claimed their tests all came back negative. She says the dr told her that 2 negative tests meant nothing she had all the symptoms and should quarantine for 14 days.

Exactly. The U texas medical center in Houston even posted their available beds on line. Even at the height of this surge they still had capacity for Covid patients to almost triple. Anyone could have done a quick Google when the media was reporting out of beds to verify the reports were false.

What they did is break the bed capacity into phases. They would report something like PH1 ICU capacity is full. But when you look at the numbers they just broke the hospital beds into phases. So the dumb public thinks the hospital is full. But really it means 40% of the ICU beds classified as "PH1" are full.

Or all the Covid patients in a region would be sent to one hospital, which is not a bad strategy as you isolate the Covid patients from other vulnerable people. But then the media reports the Covid floor at hospital XYZ in 95% full we are at critical mass. Never mind their were two other hospitals within five miles with Covid floors that were completely empty.

The whole state is a joke. The ones who aren't rednecks are fundamentalist maniacs. Actually, and incredibly, some are both. Just a lunatic asylum for low IQ loudmouths. I'm surprised the state government hasn't announced a plan to pray their way out of Covid.

Gid is everyone on this site a Trump virus excuse machine?

Incredible.

commenter123 wrote:

Gid is everyone on this site a Trump virus excuse machine?

Incredible.

The answer is - almost everyone. If you read the titles of all the threads on the message board that are allowed to stick around by the openly right-leaning mods, 90% of them are bashing the left. Not super surprising, considering that the site caters almost exclusively to white, suburban males. It is a similar phenomenon to Fox News (or CNN for that matter). An echo chamber of homogenous individuals preaching the same fact-less headlines to each other regarding issues that they have no first hand experience with. All while being overseen by and censored by equally biased mods. Kinda sickening to be honest.

SlowAFRunnrMom wrote:

GWT wrote:

Yeah, it has nothing to do with Texas' inability to buy into the steps it takes to curb the disease, but I digress.

I've been all over Texas this summer and no one has seen overwhelmed hospitals except the valley area where this report is from. As a matter of fact, even the DFW/Houston areas where we supposedly had a surge in cases we still had plenty of empty beds. Don't get to thinking you know what's happening in Texas from one border city news article that has a bias.

I've literally only had 1 person I know that says they had covid and that person claimed their tests all came back negative. She says the dr told her that 2 negative tests meant nothing she had all the symptoms and should quarantine for 14 days.

Runner Mom, Are you a healthcare professional? NYC hospitals were engaging in triage. NYC hospitals were not holding press conferences stating they were engaging triage practices, but triage did occur. In April in NYC, some patients got ventilators, some patients only received morphine for their discomfort. Patients all over U.S. often are not actually dying on ventilator. Doctors and hospital administrators are giving up on patients on ventilator, usually by Day 15. It is very rare for hospitals anywhere in U.S. to allow covid-19 patients to stay on ventilator past Day 15. As many people who are dying in Texas of covid-19, it is naive to believe triage is not occurring in Texas in regard to covid-19.

Ventilators are old news. We're on to ECMO now.

SlowAFRunnrMom wrote:

GWT wrote:

Yeah, it has nothing to do with Texas' inability to buy into the steps it takes to curb the disease, but I digress.

I've been all over Texas this summer and no one has seen overwhelmed hospitals except the valley area where this report is from. As a matter of fact, even the DFW/Houston areas where we supposedly had a surge in cases we still had plenty of empty beds. Don't get to thinking you know what's happening in Texas from one border city news article that has a bias.

I've literally only had 1 person I know that says they had covid and that person claimed their tests all came back negative. She says the dr told her that 2 negative tests meant nothing she had all the symptoms and should quarantine for 14 days.

Then why is CNN feeding us daily reports of overwhelmed hospitals in the Houston area with critical patients having to wait for hours in the hallways? I think one reporter on the scene called it a "warzone."

Hey but at least the stock market is strong and Elon Musk makde like 3 billion dollars last week, right?

beds aren't the issue. ICU beds are. That means a lot of expensive equipment.

commenter123 wrote:

Gid is everyone on this site a Trump virus excuse machine?

Incredible.

The site eliminates non-conforming views on a continual basis. Try posting a thread about Trump's incompetence with the COVID crisis and see how many minutes it lasts.

dunes runner wrote:

Inquiring minds want to know wrote:

why is CNN feeding us daily reports of overwhelmed hospitals in the Houston area with critical patients having to wait for hours in the hallways? I think one reporter on the scene called it a "warzone."

All of the mainstream media is owned by the same 6 rich families, all of which are heavily invested in corrupted vaccination corporations, which is why they're promoting the invisible virus fatalities.

Some posters have an amazing ability never to absorb new information if the information conflicts with what they need to believe. Further they search and fill in gaps that allow them to continue to live in their fantasy world.

No conspiracy is too far fetched for them.

The sick are largely US citizens of Mexican decent. Many live Almost communally, same jobs, transportation to work and residences. This condition allows easy transmission. Same scenario in other places around the US. NYC etc

dunes runner wrote:

Inquiring minds want to know wrote:

why is CNN feeding us daily reports of overwhelmed hospitals in the Houston area with critical patients having to wait for hours in the hallways? I think one reporter on the scene called it a "warzone."

All of the mainstream media is owned by the same 6 rich families, all of which are heavily invested in corrupted vaccination corporations, which is why they're promoting the invisible virus fatalities.

CNN is owned by AT&T, which is a publicly traded corporation. It isn't owned or controlled by a family or group of families.

LetsDoc wrote:

A quick Google search will verify.

Google is heavily invested in the vaccination corporations, so I'm sure their searches will provide support for the invisible virus fatalities.