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With Mississippi nearly out of ICU beds and officials in Jackson clearing out a parking garage to house COVID-19 patients one hospital CEO has a simple question for Republican Gov. Tate Reeves.
"Hospitals and healthcare workers need you to help us. Where are you?" Neshoba County General Hospital CEO Lee McCall wrote on Twitter in a message to Reeves on Tuesday. "We are overwhelmed with the surge of Covid and understaffed to safely care for our patients. Our incredible staff are holding it together but we are all at our breaking point."
The answer to McCall's question, according Mississippi Today journalist Adam Ganucheau, is that Reeves is out of state attending a Republican Governors Association candidate conference.
"Nearly everyone in the state medical, government and education leaders and voters on the political right and left is asking: Where is our governor?" Ganucheau wrote Tuesday. "Gov. Tate Reeves is holed up most days at the Governor's Mansion, according to people close to the governor. Reeves, who has defiantly rejected issuing any new statewide orders, has isolated himself from many of his closest advisers in recent weeks. He's holding no press conferences, decidedly not making himself available to the public as he did earlier in the pandemic. Right now, as the crisis reaches its biggest inflection point, he's out of state at a Republican Governors Association candidate conference."
https://www.rawstory.com/where-are-you-miss-governor-blasted-as-icu-bed-shortage-prompts-parking-garage-field-hospital/
It's gotta be hot as hell in Mississippi.
The Wizard
(12,552 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)That's what the state elected him to do, and by golly, he's gonna do it! Besides, there's lots of important governor-ing stuff for him to do at the Republican Governors Association candidate conference and pig trough.
JoanofArgh
(14,971 posts)Texaswitchy
(2,962 posts)Parking garage is better then nothing.
Marcuse
(7,528 posts)Texaswitchy
(2,962 posts)Meatball surgery.
Save who you can.
Crunchy Frog
(26,673 posts)The Republicans are no longer a governing party. They are not elected to govern, or to look out for the interests of their constituents, or deal with crises.
They get elected because they are good performance artists, and are good at saying outrageous things and whipping up the emotions of RWers.
If the people in these states want people who will govern their states, they need to start choosing governors who actually want to govern.
LiberalBrooke
(527 posts)Think next time before you vote..
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)Trolling.