ICU Doc Shows What 'Anxious and Scared' Gov. Greg Abbott Did After COVID-19 News

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

ICU doctor and NBC News analyst Vin Gupta is urging Texans to “take note” of the actions of Gov. Greg Abbott (R) after he tested positive for the coronavirus on Tuesday.

Abbott has actively thwarted efforts to contain the coronavirus pandemic by banning mask and vaccine mandates.

Yet once he was infected, he was given Regeneron’s monoclonal antibody treatment, despite being fully vaccinated and having no symptoms.

Gupta, a pulmonologist, tweeted:

Link to tweet

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/icu-doc-shows-anxious-scared-081500127.html

[JohnSJ]

1. The problem is this will get very little visibility

[LaMouffette]

5. The DNC needs to get rolling with its own version of the Lincoln Project--NOW!

They need to get TV ads in production right away that nail this bastard for what he's done to Texas during the pandemic and for how he received world-class treatment when his own precious hide contracted Covid.

And do the same for Ron DeathSentence and all the other fully vaxxed Republican governors who are doing everything they can to make Covid worse in the hope of making Biden look bad so that people blame him and not TFG for the pandemic.

God how I hate these Republican governors!

[JohnSJ]

9. They should

[HUAJIAO]

48. But they won't.

[benfranklin1776]

12. Amen. Do it ASAP.

I’d put Steve Schmidt in charge of it as he’s now a Democrat.

[CrispyQ]

25. I doubt the DNC even has a marketing department.

The right has defined our side more successfully than we have ourselves.

[LaMouffette]

28. I doubt the DNC has one, too, and why is that?!

We (the Dems) are supposed to be the smart ones. We're like the three guys in that movie Office Space who want to launder the money they embezzled from the company they worked for, and they have to look up what "money laundering" means in the dictionary!

Why doesn't the DNC have a Lincoln Project or a marketing department or 1,000 AM radio stations attacking Republicans?

I think it's time for the DNC to get waaay more aggressive in their messaging.

[FoxNewsSucks]

30. It makes you wonder

just what the DNC goal is, when they seem to ignore so many ways that would help elect democrats.

Electing democrats, and opposing republicon scum should be their main goal.

[calimary]

35. YES! By ANY means, messaging, and sloganeering necessary!

I fear what they don’t get is that these aren’t some simplistic, superficial word games. They’re VITAL and ESSENTIAL tactical weapons, dammit!!!

[FoxNewsSucks]

37. When people ask "don't Democrats want to win"

things like this are the reason they wonder.

Howard Dean had a massively successful program for electing Democrats. A 50-state strategy. DNC-types kicked him to the curb, and abandoned it. Too much winning, I guess. Guess which party now has a "50-state strategy".

Among other strategies. And we have. . . .

[calimary]

50. Howard Dean was quite literally just what the doctor ordered.

Why the establishment Dems turned their back on him I will NEVER understand, OR forgive.

[calimary]

34. So do I! Dammit, I've been howling about this literally for years!

Our side doesn’t seem to understand how vitally important strategic messaging is! They just don’t seem to understand it. And I don’t understand that!

republi-CONS are good at bad things - like attack messaging and lies and convoluted sales talk that’s for shit but sounds good/smart/shrewd.

And what have WE got? Besides a whole lotta naïveté with a side of nothing?

Democrats are lousy at it. And have been for a long time. Without much of ANY understanding of how strategically valuable it is!

It’s really hard to comprehend that poor comprehension! It is staggeringly sucky.

[LaMouffette]

41. You know who might be able to help? The Indivisible team.

I think if we as individuals were to contact the DNC and say, "Hey, em-effers! Why aren't we seeing Lincoln Project–style TV ads outta you guys?!" that they would just blow us off and go their merry way.

But Indivisible has gained national publicity as a grassroots organization. If we made the suggestion to them, maybe they would run with it and either launch a Lincoln Project themselves or put pressure on the DNC to do so.

Hmm . . .

[calimary]

43. Hmmmmmm... indeed.

That’s a most interest idea!

I wonder if Ezra Levin has thought of it? I’ve attended several of his Zoom meetings. I’m active in two groups up here now. Haven’t heard anything - yet, anyway.

You don’t have to pay dues or anything to join Indivisible, so I have no idea about their funding. Besides, we seldom talk about money. It’s always about action.

[LaMouffette]

47. I'm on the Indivisible email list. They send out emails about twice a week, urging people

to take action on the latest pressing situation, such as calling their senators. Here's an excerpt from their latest email (which maybe you got too, since you're involved with Indivisible (and by the way, bravo to you for that! I need to get more involved with them):

Now that the Senate has gone on recess without taking further action on the For the People Act, we know exactly what our next steps are. While senators are in their home states, we have to turn up the pressure so they know they absolutely must move on S. 1, no excuses, as soon as they get back to D.C.

The top way we’re doing that is continuing to drive calls into senators’ offices -- especially Senators Carper, Coons, Manchin, and Sinema, who have positioned themselves as the last Dem holdouts on doing whatever it takes to build a better democracy. No matter who your senators are, they need to hear from you that their constituents deserve and demand legislation that gets money out of politics, makes voting easier, and unrigs our democracy.

They always include a donation link in their emails. That must be one way they get their funding. I would gladly donate if it meant funding a pro-Democrat/Progressive marketing campaign like the Lincoln Project that included TV ads, YouTube ads, etc.

[Cheezoholic]

46. Lol, except here. You'd think just maybe there's something already here

I don't know how many subscribers there are to DU but maybe what some are suggesting is right here. Seriously. Instead of looking to the sky for some "Schmidtonian" savior, maybe look into the DU ranks and organize something that some are speaking of. There are plenty of very smart, witty, passionate folks right here. Organize something from the seeds that already exist here into an external tour de force. I'm game

[LaMouffette]

49. You're right, Cheezoholic! I wonder if we DUers could get with ActBlue and/or Indivisible

to start a fund to finance hiring an actual, big-time, fancy-schmancy marketing firm to just carpet bomb US media with pro-Democrat/Progressive messaging that also exposes Republican Big Lies and corruption.

And, like you say, recruit from our ranks. Hmm . . . !

(By the way, loved your "Schmidtonian savior" part!)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. And this anti-diluvian republican SOB wants to be our president! What a joke.

He's a dangerous, hypocritical monster who is cut out of the same cloth as TFG.

I hope Texan voters are taking a long, hard look at him.

[DBoon]

3. He knows Covid is deadly

but that only matters when HE is infected.

Everyone else is just a political pawn.

[malaise]

4. I can't speak for the rest of you but I won't be happy until he's

"Cained" - yes I said it.

[dalton99a]

7. No objections

[bluestarone]

8. 100%

In your corner here!! Plus i'd add LOTS MORE NAMES to that CAINED list!!!!

[malaise]

11. To the need to be

CAINED list

[Comfortably_Numb]

20. Speak for me malaise.... Speak away. Cain the moron...

[malaise]

33. Like me I see you're

Comfortably_Numb

[FoxNewsSucks]

32. Same here. And we've got a lot of company.

My first thought on hearing about Abbott the Asshole was that I'd sure like to see him get what he deserves.

But if he did die despite being vaccinated, they would just use that to further scare the stupid booger-eating MAGAts about the "dangerous vaccine that don't work".

[dianaredwing]

42. But now that he's had the super duper only for the rich

antidote, how would we know which one killed him?

[Moostache]

10. I believe I heard him say "Jehovah".... (n/t)

[Lovie777]

13. DeSantis and Ted Cruz are against mask wearing in schools. . .

and yet their children go to schools where it is mandatory and also tracking.

[Lonestarblue]

15. Well, Republicans have long been hypocrites.

They’re just openly hypocritical now. I detest everything this party stands for since it stands for nothing but lying, cheating, stealing elections, passing laws to hurt people they don’t like, and giving everything they can to the wealthy. Disgusting human beings.

[SouthBayDem]

27. Not sure if it's true about Death

https://tallahasseereports.com/2021/08/10/school-board-member-rosanne-wood-attempts-to-dox-florida-gov-desantis-children/

[argyl]

14. He's one hypocritical SOB. And not just on Covid.

The accident that put him in a wheelchair occurred when he was jogging in an affluent area of Houston. After a storm an oak tree fell, crushing his spine. It was 1984 and he was 26.
He sued the house owner, a prominent Houston divorce attorney, along with the tree service company, which had inspected the tree a few months ago and pronounced it sound.
The attorney who owned the house thought he had a good case but was fully insured and let it go.
This is a tragedy for sure, but it's so unusual a non atheist could even consider it " an act of God."
These people were certainly less at fault than if a drunk driver had hit him and broken his back. Or if a gunman had paralyzed him with a pistol shot.
As of now, Abbott has collected $6,000,000. If he lives until a normal age he'll have collected $9,000,000.
And when he was an Associate Justice on the Texas Supreme Court he voted with a ruling to cap damages such as these to $250,000.
He's kept the extra $5,750,000 he's received and I'm sure he has no intention of returning it.

[XanaDUer2]

17. What a pos. My God nt

[Mr. Evil]

16. These inhuman slobs want people to get Covid-19.

Abbott, DeathSentence and most other rich republicans are likely invested in Regeneron's monoclonal antibody treatment. You don't vaccinated, get sick, go to the hospital and hopefully they treat you with that and/or whatever other treatments they've invested in. They make big money.

Anyone feel exploited yet?

[bluewater]

18. Abbot is a hypocrite and a coward and worse

He's literally killing people by blocking mask mandates.

There ought to be a law...

[Larissa]

23. I've always believed

That the hope of Abbott, and other elected officials like DeSantis, is that there will enough of a die-off of folks who wouldn't be likely to re-elect them. If folks not in that group get sickened and die, so be it. They took one for the team. It's exactly what Trump did when he sat on his hands while 500,000 Americans died. He hated the idea of Americans wearing masks, even when he knew then that SARS-CoV-2 was airborne. Abbott, DeSantis and Trump are menaces to society. They will bust up infrastructures and do little to nothing to save the people they were sworn to serve from a lethal pandemic. This is unpasteurized evil right out in the open for all who care to see it.

Covid-19: Racial and ethnic disparities increase risk for exposure
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/health-equity/racial-ethnic-disparities/increased-risk-exposure.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/10/trump-says-everyone-knew-the-coronavirus-was-airborne-in-february-its-no-big-thing.html

[KS Toronado]

36. I've been thinking that people who lose a loved one

or know someone who got deathly sick from it informs them it is worse than the common flu, begin to
question why so many reQublicOns downplayed the coronavirus, and finally realize the repugs they
have been voting for could care less about them and start voting Democrat. They're doing it to make
Biden look bad or they want people to die because of money they have invested in some medical stock.
Personally I hope Karma gives Abbott some payback for all the damage he's done.

[rickyhall]

19. Like all repugs he's nothing but a sniveling little fucking coward.

[AllaN01Bear]

21. they dont care for us , the common herd . whish wed go away.

[SunSeeker]

22. And he got Regeneron IMMEDIATELY, whereas Texas cancer patients must wait a week!

The longer you wait, the less likely Regeneron will do any good. But Abbott jumped the line even though he has no symptoms!

Link to tweet

[Rebl2]

38. Exactly!

I wouldn’t begin to know how to get this therapy. It’s not fair this isn’t easier for everyone to get.

[Azathoth]

24. This is the same thing they did with Medicaid expansion

Deliberately engineered things so their citizens would suffer and die, because they knew their voters would blame the "DemonRats" no matter what.

[Demovictory9]

26. double standarding hypocrite

[Marthe48]

29. spell hypocrite

n/t

[HubertHeaver]

39. Spell "hypocrite"?

A_B_B_O_T_T

[Marthe48]

40. :)

[Hassin Bin Sober]

31. It's just a cold!

Fucking assholes.

[Moebym]

44. That's the thing about authoritarian types.

They want to reserve the best of everything - medical treatments being a prime example - for themselves. The rabble can take their bleach, hydroxychloroquine and equine dewormer while their betters take monoclonal antibody treatments.

The people of Texas will soon see him for who he truly is - a man who thinks they are simple-minded fools only useful for keeping him in power. Hopefully, this will translate to a humiliating defeat.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

45. Abbott being reckless & uncaring about TX moms, dads & kids contracting the deadly virus is reprehen

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