With Mississippi Hospitals Near Calamity, Gov. Reeves Left State For GOP Political Event
Source: Mississippi Free Press
With Mississippi Hospitals Near Calamity, Gov. Reeves Left State For GOP Political Event
by Ashton Pittman
August 11, 2021
“Hospitals and healthcare workers need you to help us,” Neshoba General Hospital CEO Lee McCall tweeted desperately at Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves yesterday as COVID-19 continued to overwhelm the state’s least vaccinated county. “Where are you?”
The answer, Arizona’s governor inadvertently revealed, was that the Mississippi governor was once again out of state. He was attending a Republican Governors’ Association meeting just one day after the state health officer announced that no intensive-care beds remained statewide. Mississippi Today’s Adam Ganucheau also reported that Reeves was attending the RGA event yesterday.
“Excited for day 2 at @The_RGA 2021 Candidate Conference to continue discussing what’s next for our nation and the importance of conservative principles with our future leaders,” Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey tweeted yesterday. He attached a photo showing GOP governors seated in a conference ballroom, with Reeves visibly seated on the right side of the podium.
Meanwhile, Neshoba County’s hospital was overflowing with patients and, according to McCall, he and hospital workers were “all at our breaking point.” Meanwhile in Jackson at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, where there is no longer enough staff to tend to all patients in need of ICU treatment, officials were asking the federal government for help setting up a field hospital in the medical center’s parking garage.
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They are doing their best to trash Pres. Biden at every opportunity.
The other day I was told that the reason COVID is so out of hand it because of all of the COVID infested immigrants that the President is letting into the country.
Huh?
These people will stop at nothing to gain power regardless of the price to be paid which includes their own lives.
Re: Mississippi Hospital system reaching failure:
This catastrophie is politically-created. The Gov and Republican pols in general are responsible for not telling their constituents the honest to God truth. And failing to tell them to be responsible adults and listen to science and experts and doctors. To wear a mask, to get vaccinated.
I can probably hazard a guess that the majority* of Mississippi residents believe in ‘small gub’mnt’.
They want their “freedumb” and they want the gubmnt to leave them alone.
But, now that they are completely overwhelmed because of their sheer stubborness regarding masks and vaccines, they cry for the gubmnt to come in and rescue them.
They want small gubmnt, until they don’t.
If Joe Biden treated Republican states like Trump treated Democratic states, then Mississippi would be ridiculed, threatened, and basically hung out to dry. That is the overwhelming difference between Republicans and Democrats. Dems don’t turn people away. Republicans walk away and tell people to pound sand.
Shaking my head. 
*If anyone here on DU is from Mississippi, I apologize. Please note I said Majority, not all residents. I know there are plenty of progressive Democrats in the state that hate this situation. I am not talking about you.
