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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAt the rate that Florida is filling up their hospitals with Covid patients,
the beds will reach capacity at the same time that the schools are due to open. Would our Republican governor be heinously criminal-minded enough to force that school opening in that event?
I can't answer that question with what I've seen from him, or from Kemp. They both should face human tribunals after this is over.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Closing labs, opening up schools, etc.
I guess the republicans are going with "herd immunity" or better yet "survival of the fittest".
Except for their families.
Baitball Blogger
(46,820 posts)Local means their friends and family members could be part of the casualty list.
OrlandoDem2
(2,075 posts)SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)When what they really mean is just die with it.
Baitball Blogger
(46,820 posts)The kind of social-engineering you would expect from people who do not have a conscientious.
uponit7771
(90,378 posts)bunny planet
(10,875 posts)Has sobering hospital capacity info county by county...updated daily. https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/7572b118dc3c48d885d1c643c195314e/
Baitball Blogger
(46,820 posts)OrlandoDem2
(2,075 posts)There is strong evidence that the state surgeon general is silencing local health departments. It was reported on news that he Palm Beach health authorities were told to shut up after initially telling the school board its not safe to open.
In Orange County, Dr Raul Pino has gone silent and the OCPS school board is too spineless to act without hearing specifically from him that its too unsafe to open.
Baitball Blogger
(46,820 posts)Goonch
(3,629 posts)only self serviance
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Of course, most were probably tested because of known exposure, most often illness in the family, but still.
Positive means infected. Infected means contagious, even if asymptomatic. Kids seemingly don't spread it as much as adults, but that just means they spread it less.
Agree about the tribunals. I'm starting to dream of, eventually, a Republican Party under new management, turning on them and giving them no place to hide. Conservatives are overall big on punishing crime, and this is big crime happening to them.
"The main benefit of controlling a modern bureaucratic state is not the power to persecute the innocent. It is the power to protect the guilty. ― David Frum, Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic
Baitball Blogger
(46,820 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)crickets
(26,005 posts)lpbk2713
(42,784 posts)They would be in a incubator for six or seven hours
including the bus ride for some. I couldn't do it.
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