The Coronavirus

[David Horn]

(11-16-2020, 05:06 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(11-16-2020, 02:49 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(11-16-2020, 05:50 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: With COVUS getting worse, the George senate run offs are becoming more and more a referendum on how the pandemic should be handled.  I can't help but think the overload situation over the next few months may make the hoax and denier people think twice about selfishness against sacrifice for the community.

Don't bet too much on that.  We have people around here outraged that they may have to cancel huge holiday gatherings and parties, because it's a hoax isn't it?  And no one get's that sick.  There are even a few who, having gotten sick, prefer the freedom to life saving and boring.  It's high tech nihilism.

Give it a few more months of the hospitals being overloaded.  If they can't see that it isn't a hoax, it is on them.  There is only so much vaccine to go around anyway.

Luckily, Virginia now has Medicaid expansion, but that's not the case next door in Tennessee. Ballad Health, the primary hospital chain serving the rural areas there, has already informed the governor that they are maxxed-out and going broke at the same time.  It seems to be falling on deaf ears.  Ballad also supplies services in far southwest Virginia, and hoped it could move some of the Tennessee overflow across the border.  It's still under review, but compassion may rule and Virginia could bail-out their undeserving neighbor.

Here's you test case.  We'll see if the system bends or breaks.