We have 0 ICU beds left for children ... Your child will wait for another child to die."

[FSogol]

Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins

Link to tweet

?s=20

[SharonClark]

1. Telling it like it is to the GQP death squads.

[Texaswitchy]

2. School just starting.

Glad my grandkids homeschool.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

4. If you think deeply about this, you'll realize what these mask bans are REALLY about

To whit: undermining the public education system.

Edit: Should've said mask mandate ban, sorry ...

[Texaswitchy]

10. Yes.

My Grandkids homeschooled for several years.

Pre virus.

The Republicans do want to kill the public schools.

[Lonestarblue]

18. Republicans want to kill everything public.

Schools, USPS, no more Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare, no government services—everything run by private businesses with no limits one what they can charge (big Pharma is already there). But they’ll still demand our taxes so they can pay for-profit companies to (not)educate children and keep taxes low for billionaires and corporations.

[Texaswitchy]

19. Everything for the rich and corporations.

And stupid poor people vote for them.

[NullTuples]

23. Not "stupid", just greedy

They've been promised power over others and even society itself.
Anyone from POC to disabled people to LGBT or non-Christian...just so long as they can ignore social restrictions, rules and laws the way trump did.
That was the deal.

[Jakes Progress]

36. Yes, greedy. But really stupid too.

They fall for the scam even though it zaps them over and over.

Think of Kevin Bacon's first movie role as the frat boy being swatted. "Thank you, sir. May I have another?'

[FakeNoose]

20. That would be Libertarians who want to kill all of it

... and yes, you'd be correct. Libertarians are basically horrible, selfish people who are willing to burn our country down (figuratively speaking) because they believe in taking as much as they can for themselves and destroying the rest so that nobody else gets anything. Ron Paul and Rand Paul are perfect examples, but there are so many others.

Not all Republicans are Libertarians though. Some actually do have some sense but they're few and far between. Chump's gift (if you can call it that) was in finding very stupid people who understand nothing about our government, and feeding them so many lies that they no longer know what they believe. They just believe what he tells them.

[NullTuples]

24. Libertarians Tea Party Republican Party

They're all the same now, just throw in the Biblical "begats".

[The Mouth]

32. Lots of republicans are authoritarians

They are ALL for state intervention in the lives of people, not Libertarian at all except partially in the economic sense.

[OMGWTF]

26. GQP only wants the military. Period. Poor? Hungry? Sick? Abused? Old? Sux to be you!

[fescuerescue]

13. Does the mask ban not apply to private schools?

Whats the penalty in Texas for wearing a mask anyway?

I think a mask ban is one law I would ignore and wear one anyway.

Go ahead and ticket me.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

14. Pretty damn sure it does not

And it's not a mask ban, it's a mask MANDATE ban. I should've been more specific. Edited my post

[Sgent]

35. Depends on the state / district / etc.

often if its required by the health department it applies to private and public schools. Bans adopted by school boards just apply to the schools they oversee. It can vary though.

[SharonClark]

16. In Iowa, it doesn't apply to schools that are

not publicly funded. The GQP gets “concerned” when Catholic schools mandate masks because they can’t do anything about it.

[StarryNite]

17. Arizona

So are they trying to kill off public and charter school kids?

"Another issue: The mask mandates in question apply to public district and charter schools but not private schools, violating equal-protection rights for students, the lawsuit said.

"HB 2898 takes this right away from children in public and charter schools – but not private schools – in violation of the Equal Protection clause of the Arizona Constitution."​​​​​," the suit states."

[link:https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-education/2021/08/13/arizona-school-mask-law-covid-19-challenged-court-education-coalition/8119478002/|

[dalton99a]

3. The situation is dire

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/north-texas-runs-out-pediatric-icu-beds-amid-covid-surge-n1276783

North Texas runs out of pediatric ICU beds amid Covid surge
"If you’re not vaccinated, you’re playing Russian roulette," Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council's CEO said. "Please get vaccinated. Just about all of the patients in our hospitals are unvaccinated."
Aug. 13, 2021, 12:59 PM CDT
By Elisha Fieldstadt

No pediatric intensive care unit beds are available amid another Covid surge in North Texas, officials said Thursday.

The Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council announced there are no more pediatric ICU beds in trauma service area E, which includes hospitals in 19 counties in North Texas, NBC Dallas-Fort Worth reported. As of Thursday, there were 73 confirmed pediatric Covid-19 patients hospitalized in the zone, the highest it's ever seen treated at once.

The council said hospitals were also receiving an unusual amount of pediatric respiratory syncytial virus patients this summer.

Stephen Love, the president and CEO of the council, said hospitals will use makeshift areas and reallocate staff to treat children.

"Otherwise, they have to transfer the patient to other facilities. But the problem is in the state of Texas, the Houston area, the El Paso area, we’re all in the same situation. This fourth surge is extremely serious," Love said.

[bucolic_frolic]

12. Yeah that's a great solution

Vaccination takes 6 weeks or more to complete

[Merlot]

15. Why did they stop the 1 shot J &J - it only takes 2 weeks.

[SoCalDavidS]

5. I Wouldn't Worry. TX Has It Under Control.

This is the leadership the majority of Texans voted for. From the top down to the bottom.

Texas Strong!

[ShazzieB]

9. I think you left something out of your post.

It could use one of these:


Some people are irony impaired, so it never hurts! 😉

[Texaswitchy]

6. Can't say what I really think.

Just came from cemetery for my Father.

Saw some children's graves.

It is a old cemetery going back to the 1930's.

I was named after an Aunt that died in 1920 at 6 months old from the Spanish Flu.

Saw her grave when I was little.

[Hekate]

7. KnR

[AllyCat]

8. This will fall on deaf ears to the pro-death GQP

[Skittles]

11. deplorables

yes indeed

[Kablooie]

21. And they will blame the whole thing on Biden.

Seems ridiculous but I'm sure the MAGA base will eat it up 100%

[wryter2000]

31. No, no, no

It's the illegal aliens. They're somehow projecting their viruses from the Texas border to Florida.

[Kablooie]

34. The main thing is that Republicans were not responsible but they are the ones who suffer.

Always play the victim -- particularly when you are the aggressor and cause the disaster yourself.

[paleotn]

22. Whole lot different than 2020....

or even last Winter. Maybe I missed it, but I don't think PICUs (pediatric intensive care units) were filling up. Only adult ICUs. While dangerous, certainly, we were kind of lucky the initial Covid variants weren't more deadly or caused significant morbidity in a broader spectrum of age groups. That left a whole lot of space for Covid to evolve without hitting the mortality wall, significantly affecting its ability to spread. And it might get even more deadly through chance mutations. Seems Delta is hitting children hard. Well, we were warned about the danger of mutations, but did idiot Amurka listen? Of course not. They're still not listening.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

25. It must suck being rational in a state

Full of addled fucktards.

[OMGWTF]

28. Locked in a room with the slow learners.

[Takket]

27. this shit has got to stop...

eventually this is going to boil over and someone is going to get dragged out of their house and killed in the street. This is not the first time MAGAts have threatened people in their own homes.

[liberal N proud]

29. All this to make Biden look bad?

Children must die for a republican agenda?

They really are a sick pathetic scar on society

[FSogol]

33. Exactly, people's kids are being hospitalized and dying because some Republican Governors want

to increase their power in the GOP and bash Biden.

[wryter2000]

30. It's a damned shame

They can't unplug an unvaccinated adult and give the bed to a child, but I don't think the equipment would work for a child.