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tavernier

(13,264 posts)
4. I could only find something about a 460 pound feral boar being killed today
Fri Jan 8, 2021, 07:52 PM
Jan 2021

My apologies if the story is something else.

TexasTowelie

(117,027 posts)
3. COVID.
Fri Jan 8, 2021, 07:52 PM
Jan 2021

Hospitalizations are at a record at 13,784 (yesterday's numbers). My brother is a DME provider and he can't keep enough oxygen concentrators on hand. The competing companies are on back order.

No telling how many people with other conditions besides COVID are dying because they can't get an ICU bed.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
7. It may sound callous. But I have stopped following COVID19 infections, hospitalizations
Fri Jan 8, 2021, 07:56 PM
Jan 2021

and deaths. It all just is too brutal, knowing the current national leadership and total incompetence in most states led by republicans (Baker in Ma, Hogan in Md and DeWine in Ohio being the few exceptions).

Mariana

(15,156 posts)
8. He had plenty of help from many residents of his state.
Fri Jan 8, 2021, 07:58 PM
Jan 2021

Cramming themselves into churches, bars, restaurants and homes, refusing to wear masks or distance, etc.

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