COVID-19 Patients Sent Home to Die in South Texas

[qwlauren35]

https://www.star-telegram.com/news/coronavirus/article244443257.html?fbclid=IwAR14Ixhg_YKOLSsopwbks5QHcXVDSdYgyCRu0_lggLIvWBMsp4LtLf5Mq_Q

I am sad, I am speechless.

They get to spend their dying hours with their families.

If their families are not provided with PPE to protect them from catching COVID-19, it will spiral through the family, potentially leading to more deaths.

[soothsayer]

1. Inexcusable. What resources are they short on, and why can't they be "surged" in?

Need medical staff? Trump has those (I think)
Need beds? Army corps of engineers can build a field hospital
Need ventilators? Dude says he’s king of them

Where’s the freaking task force?

[qwlauren35]

2. They are out of space.

They have been moving patients to other facilities for a while. They just can't keep up.

They are admitting that it is a "death panel".

[cayugafalls]

3. This is a small poor county with one hospital.

They have 29 Covid-19 beds after their 2 expanded surges.

They just don't have the resources to handle a large outbreak of a highly contagious novel disease.

The population is largely Latino and is probably not on the Task Forces or Dan Patrick's (Let them die for the economy) radar.

[soothsayer]

4. How is this allowed to happen?

I’m still stunned, small county or no

[DSandra]

7. Slowly boiling the frog

And a “broken” populace beaten and demoralized daily by powerful institutions.

[central scrutinizer]

5. Pro-Life, family values party in action

Nfm

[DSandra]

6. Trump is turning America into an impoverished third world nation

With life as brutal as in African countries.