@shavixmir said
I’m not hearing much about the hospital / IC situation in Florida and Texas.
Is it under control, that anybody knows?
Most Texas hospitals are flooded or nearing their limits. Same with Arizona. Florida, which has a lot of old codgers to begin with, still has some hospital capacity, but dozens report no more available ICU beds. All three states are pulling in extra medical personnel (like nurses) either from military reserves, or from other states that have them to spare. Some hospitals in rural western Texas are turning Covid patients away because there's no room. Some critical patients are being taken by helicopter hundreds of miles to hospitals that can accommodate them.
California also has a growing number of cases, comparable to Texas and Florida, but the state isn't quite as bad off because it has a quite large population to begin with.
The US chose to rush into reopening bars in exchange for shuttering schools come the fall. That is where the nation's priorities lie. Republican priorities, anyway.
So, basically, nothing to worry about. Obviously it's just the flu and it's all going to go away soon when the healing powers of the sun set to work and make everything better. Trump says we just need to reduce testing to reduce the number of cases. Old news, you say? Not at all: he said it again today in a rambling -- no, clinically demented -- speech in the Rose Garden outside the White House today:
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/14/trump-says-us-would-have-half-the-number-of-coronavirus-cases-if-it-did-half-the-testing.html
Arizona and Texas are scrambling to bring in fleets of refrigerated trucks as the morgues fill up:
https://news.yahoo.com/arizona-texas-requesting-refrigerated-trucks-100007662.html
Just the flu though -- carry on, buy lots of stuff you don't need, and make the economy great for Dear Leader in time for election day.
Here in Pennsylvania things are going well, however. Small wonder: we have a Democratic governor, and he did the necessary things to clamp down on the spread of the virus. The feral ass clowns in the Pennsylvania state legislature -- dominated by Republicans thanks to Republican gerrymandering -- were screaming to have the state reopen for business way back in April. Had we listened to those demented Death Eaters we'd be an apocalyptic hellscape like Arizona is now. And yet Arizona, Florida, Texas, Georgia, South Carolina -- all those states and others haven't seen anything yet.