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CNN goes inside Texas hospital being overwhelmed by coronavirus patients (Original Post) SouthernCal_Dem Jul 2020 OP
Patients dying in their 20's, young patients turned away... Buckeye_Democrat Jul 2020 #1
Was letting them film in the first place a good idea? nycbos Jul 2020 #2
I hope it wasn't the same reporter at the beginning... Buckeye_Democrat Jul 2020 #3
It's easy enough to blame the idiots who ignored all the warnings DFW Jul 2020 #4

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,853 posts)
1. Patients dying in their 20's, young patients turned away...
Thu Jul 2, 2020, 03:01 PM
Jul 2020

... from lack of room, newborn babies immediately separated from their infected mothers, machines used to oxygenate blood, etc.

How any Republican could see that and ignore the virus is beyond me! Well, no, they could easily ignore it if they never see it while living inside their Fox News bubble!

nycbos

(6,034 posts)
2. Was letting them film in the first place a good idea?
Thu Jul 2, 2020, 04:11 PM
Jul 2020

Some of the reporters could have been asymptomatic carriers.

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,853 posts)
3. I hope it wasn't the same reporter at the beginning...
Thu Jul 2, 2020, 04:15 PM
Jul 2020

... while wearing that mask with exhalation valves in it.

I'd hope that the hospitals would be more careful that that! (They probably were.)

DFW

(54,378 posts)
4. It's easy enough to blame the idiots who ignored all the warnings
Thu Jul 2, 2020, 05:15 PM
Jul 2020

But the heavy blame lays with the Governor and his state government that encouraged the stupid ones to behave as they did, or at least led them to believe the danger had passed. Murder by any other name kills as thoroughly.

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