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In reply to the discussion: The Covid numbers today are jaw dropping [View all]Pacifist Patriot
(24,653 posts)32. According to the CDC, 54 hospitals here are out of ICU beds already.
Watching the lagging indicators has been terrifying. And so very frustrating. If I can see what is coming, why can't the people with the authority to do something?
The rapidly climbing positivity rate should have them quaking in their damn boots! We've entrusted public welfare to a bunch of cowardly dolts.
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I certainly hope the wave pattern doesn't replicate the Spanish Flu pandemic.
Pacifist Patriot
Jul 2020
#5
DeSantis keeps using the argument that most of the newly infected people are young,
Blue_true
Jul 2020
#21
Yeah, we are in deep poo-poo. We have a clown leading our state and a mega-clown
Blue_true
Jul 2020
#42
And if most infected people are young, that would mean young are filling up those ICU beds.
LisaL
Jul 2020
#38
I actually think we're not going to see any natural wave. Any "waves"...
Pacifist Patriot
Jul 2020
#31