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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWe have 0 ICU beds left for children ... Your child will wait for another child to die."
Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins
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SharonClark
(10,014 posts)Texaswitchy
(2,962 posts)Glad my grandkids homeschool.
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)To whit: undermining the public education system.
Edit: Should've said mask mandate ban, sorry ...
Texaswitchy
(2,962 posts)My Grandkids homeschooled for several years.
Pre virus.
The Republicans do want to kill the public schools.
Lonestarblue
(10,074 posts)Schools, USPS, no more Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare, no government serviceseverything run by private businesses with no limits one what they can charge (big Pharma is already there). But theyll still demand our taxes so they can pay for-profit companies to (not)educate children and keep taxes low for billionaires and corporations.
Texaswitchy
(2,962 posts)And stupid poor people vote for them.
NullTuples
(6,017 posts)They've been promised power over others and even society itself.
Anyone from POC to disabled people to LGBT or non-Christian...just so long as they can ignore social restrictions, rules and laws the way trump did.
That was the deal.
Jakes Progress
(11,122 posts)They fall for the scam even though it zaps them over and over.
Think of Kevin Bacon's first movie role as the frat boy being swatted. "Thank you, sir. May I have another?'
FakeNoose
(32,748 posts)... and yes, you'd be correct. Libertarians are basically horrible, selfish people who are willing to burn our country down (figuratively speaking) because they believe in taking as much as they can for themselves and destroying the rest so that nobody else gets anything. Ron Paul and Rand Paul are perfect examples, but there are so many others.
Not all Republicans are Libertarians though. Some actually do have some sense but they're few and far between. Chump's gift (if you can call it that) was in finding very stupid people who understand nothing about our government, and feeding them so many lies that they no longer know what they believe. They just believe what he tells them.
NullTuples
(6,017 posts)They're all the same now, just throw in the Biblical "begats".
The Mouth
(3,164 posts)They are ALL for state intervention in the lives of people, not Libertarian at all except partially in the economic sense.
OMGWTF
(3,975 posts)fescuerescue
(4,448 posts)Whats the penalty in Texas for wearing a mask anyway?
I think a mask ban is one law I would ignore and wear one anyway.
Go ahead and ticket me.
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)And it's not a mask ban, it's a mask MANDATE ban. I should've been more specific. Edited my post
Sgent
(5,857 posts)often if its required by the health department it applies to private and public schools. Bans adopted by school boards just apply to the schools they oversee. It can vary though.
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)not publicly funded. The GQP gets concerned when Catholic schools mandate masks because they cant do anything about it.
StarryNite
(9,460 posts)So are they trying to kill off public and charter school kids?
"Another issue: The mask mandates in question apply to public district and charter schools but not private schools, violating equal-protection rights for students, the lawsuit said.
"HB 2898 takes this right away from children in public and charter schools but not private schools in violation of the Equal Protection clause of the Arizona Constitution."," the suit states."
[link:https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-education/2021/08/13/arizona-school-mask-law-covid-19-challenged-court-education-coalition/8119478002/|
dalton99a
(81,578 posts)North Texas runs out of pediatric ICU beds amid Covid surge
"If youre not vaccinated, youre playing Russian roulette," Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council's CEO said. "Please get vaccinated. Just about all of the patients in our hospitals are unvaccinated."
Aug. 13, 2021, 12:59 PM CDT
By Elisha Fieldstadt
No pediatric intensive care unit beds are available amid another Covid surge in North Texas, officials said Thursday.
The Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council announced there are no more pediatric ICU beds in trauma service area E, which includes hospitals in 19 counties in North Texas, NBC Dallas-Fort Worth reported. As of Thursday, there were 73 confirmed pediatric Covid-19 patients hospitalized in the zone, the highest it's ever seen treated at once.
The council said hospitals were also receiving an unusual amount of pediatric respiratory syncytial virus patients this summer.
Stephen Love, the president and CEO of the council, said hospitals will use makeshift areas and reallocate staff to treat children.
"Otherwise, they have to transfer the patient to other facilities. But the problem is in the state of Texas, the Houston area, the El Paso area, were all in the same situation. This fourth surge is extremely serious," Love said.
bucolic_frolic
(43,287 posts)Vaccination takes 6 weeks or more to complete
Merlot
(9,696 posts)SoCalDavidS
(9,998 posts)This is the leadership the majority of Texans voted for. From the top down to the bottom.
Texas Strong!
ShazzieB
(16,513 posts)It could use one of these:
Some people are irony impaired, so it never hurts! 😉
Texaswitchy
(2,962 posts)Just came from cemetery for my Father.
Saw some children's graves.
It is a old cemetery going back to the 1930's.
I was named after an Aunt that died in 1920 at 6 months old from the Spanish Flu.
Saw her grave when I was little.
AllyCat
(16,222 posts)Skittles
(153,193 posts)yes indeed
Kablooie
(18,641 posts)Seems ridiculous but I'm sure the MAGA base will eat it up 100%
wryter2000
(46,082 posts)It's the illegal aliens. They're somehow projecting their viruses from the Texas border to Florida.
Kablooie
(18,641 posts)Always play the victim -- particularly when you are the aggressor and cause the disaster yourself.
paleotn
(17,960 posts)or even last Winter. Maybe I missed it, but I don't think PICUs (pediatric intensive care units) were filling up. Only adult ICUs. While dangerous, certainly, we were kind of lucky the initial Covid variants weren't more deadly or caused significant morbidity in a broader spectrum of age groups. That left a whole lot of space for Covid to evolve without hitting the mortality wall, significantly affecting its ability to spread. And it might get even more deadly through chance mutations. Seems Delta is hitting children hard. Well, we were warned about the danger of mutations, but did idiot Amurka listen? Of course not. They're still not listening.
The Unmitigated Gall
(3,830 posts)Full of addled fucktards.
OMGWTF
(3,975 posts)Takket
(21,625 posts)eventually this is going to boil over and someone is going to get dragged out of their house and killed in the street. This is not the first time MAGAts have threatened people in their own homes.
liberal N proud
(60,344 posts)Children must die for a republican agenda?
They really are a sick pathetic scar on society
FSogol
(45,526 posts)to increase their power in the GOP and bash Biden.
wryter2000
(46,082 posts)They can't unplug an unvaccinated adult and give the bed to a child, but I don't think the equipment would work for a child.