It was not enough to do nothing; they had to make it harder for anyone else to do something.

[kpete]

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Hospitals are at or near capacity in many parts of the nation, esp in the rural parts of the upper midwest & the plains. Idaho is having to ship patients out to other states. Farther South, Gov. Abbot has asked for a military hospital be made available in El Paso. This is dire.

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[Brainfodder]

1. On the + side it makes them look GUILTY AF!

[pandr32]

2. Your title is bang on

[kpete]

3. hat tip here:

https://www.balloon-juice.com/2020/10/25/no-its-not-going-to-stop-so-just-give-up/#comment-7921531

[pandr32]

10. Thank you!

[barbtries]

4. My sister and her family are in Idaho

most of them poo poo the pandemic and they gather regularly. My sister is there too, almost 71 years old and suffering from early alzheimers.

yesterday a friend and i were talking and he mentioned that it couldn't get worse. yes it could. it probably will.

[Grins]

9. John Barry on Smerconish yesterday

Said one million Americans is not out of the question.

(John Barry is an author and historian who has written books on the influenza pandemic of 1918.)

[dalton99a]

5. Republicans want to kill Americans.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

6. It's a deadly death cult.

[OneBlueSky]

7. Trump will no doubt lay the blame on the hospitals . . .

"they should have been better prepared" . . . or some equally noxious bullshit . . . nothing is ever HIS fault . . .

(do we need an "asshole" smiley? . . . )

[moonscape]

8. Wow to the comments from

2 members of a regional health dept board that voted to overturn mask mandate:

"I personally do not care whether anybody wears a mask or not. If they want to be dumb enough to walk around and expose themselves and others, that's fine with me," Kirby said. "Nobody's wearing the damned mask anyway... I'm sitting back and watching them catch it and die. Hopefully I'll live through it."

and

"Something's making these people sick, and I'm pretty sure that it's not coronavirus, so the question that you should be asking is, 'What's making them sick?'" he told the medical professionals who testified.

[struggle4progress]

11. Gov. Greg Abbott says bars can reopen

BY ALEX SAMUELS, DAN ROSENZWEIG-ZIFF AND SHAWN MULCAHY
OCT. 7, 2020 UPDATED: 8 PM
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/10/07/texas-bars-reopen-greg-abbott/

[struggle4progress]

12. Federal resources being diverted to El Paso to aid with surge of COVID-19

by David Cross
Sunday, October 25th 2020

EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced more resources will be diverted to the El Paso region to combat the spread of COVID-19.

Abbott announced Sunday that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is sending additional resources set to arrive this week based on needs assessments and communication between the local medical community and state and federal officials.

Two 35-person Disaster Medical Assistance Teams and a Trauma Critical Care Team are being deployed by HHS, according to the governor ...

https://kfoxtv.com/news/coronavirus/federal-resources-being-diverted-to-el-paso-to-aid-with-surge-of-covid-19

[struggle4progress]

13. White House surrenders to covid-19

Daniel W. Drezner
Oct. 25, 2020 at 2:55 p.m. EDT

... The day Trump was diagnosed, the Associated Press reported, “The White House does not appear to be making any changes to current virus protocol, even after President Trump and the first lady tested positive for the coronavirus. A senior White House official said Friday that masks will still not be mandatory at the White House, describing facial coverings as ‘a personal choice,’ despite overwhelming evidence that they help to stop the spread.” Trump’s reaction after returning to the White House also suggested willful disregard for any precautionary measures ...

Neither this new White House cluster nor the overall alarming national trends showing a third surge in infections lend any support to Trump’s contentions that the United States is “rounding the turn” on this pandemic and that the virus will disappear from the news after Election Day ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/10/25/trump-white-house-surrenders-covid-19/

[Boomerproud]

14. Interesting that Bill Maher used almost the exact same verbiage

Friday regarding voter suppression. There are way too many people, including some of my co workers who will not take their blinders off re covid or the election. Dire times folks.