Idaho hospitals nearly buckling in relentless COVID surge

[TexasTowelie]

Source: AP

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The intensive care rooms at St. Luke’s Boise Medical Center are full, each a blinking jungle of tubes, wires and mechanical breathing machines. The patients nestled inside are a lot alike: All unvaccinated, mostly middle-aged, paralyzed and sedated, reliant on life support and locked in a silent struggle against COVID-19.

But watch for a moment, and glimpses of who they were before the coronavirus become clear.

Artfully inked tattoos cover the tanned forearm of a man in his 30s. An expectant mother’s slightly swollen belly is briefly revealed as a nurse adjusts her position. The young woman is five months pregnant and hooked to a breathing machine.

Down the hall, another pregnant woman, just 24 and hooked to a ventilator, is lying prone — on top of her developing fetus — to get more air into her ravaged lungs.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/business-health-coronavirus-pandemic-idaho-09941b507483a5c7b0183dcbf03a8254

[Blues Heron]

1. willing to inject sketchy tattoo ink, draws the line at vaccines

[AllyCat]

7. Right? I do not get this. So many people have no issue

getting tattoos where we have only a vague idea what is in that ink, but will not get 0.3 ml x 2 injection of 7 ingredients that are all commonly found in a kitchen or already in our bodies. I don't understand.

[brewens]

2. Lewis county has one of the lowest vaccination rates and lowest average tooth count.

Coincidence? I think not.

[IronLionZion]

3. Neighboring Wyoming joined the dark red most severe states

this is a pandemic of red states right now. Not a good place to be

https://covidactnow.org/?s=22511175

[OneBro]

4. A quote from the article.

“While I appreciate the prayers for my brother and I understand that that’s how they feel they’re helping, I would ask them to you know, use some of the help that God has already given them to stay out of that same situation,” said Pierre Jacque.

[bucolic_frolic]

13. Yes, God sent the vaccine but all these people see is the Devil and their own invincibility

[Champp]

5. Republicans are breaking America's hospitals

Republicans are sickening themselves and their families. No respect. No common sense. No belonging to a community of people. Just fatheaded, obstinate denial of COVID, of climate change, and slavish belief in the glaring, manipulative lies their RepubliQon "leaders" and Russian bot-buddies spew at them 24/7 through radical right-wing radio and TV.

Sad. Stupid. Dangerous for them, and everyone they love.

[Crowman2009]

10. It enrages me immigrants are getting blamed for the spread of COVID.

When in reality it's white right-wingers that are the source of the problem. I guess this is payback for all the times they've blamed Africa or gay men for spreading disease.

[roamer65]

12. That's why all willfully unvaccinated should be sent to palliative care quarantine facilities.

Food, water, cot and morphine.

[trash MTG and MG]

6. Nobody learns

When will this madness stop?

[Roc2020]

8. It won't

Scientists says there is no herd immunity with Covid. Football season is here with no restrictions plus the fall/winter. it won't.

[Crowman2009]

9. That wiped the shit-eating grin off those anti-maskers in that state.

[roamer65]

11. Pull the plugs and move them to palliative care quarantine facilities.

If they survive, they do…if they don’t…oh well.

It is what it is.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

14. Oh well...

...Canvas sack, throw 'em in the pit, shovel in some lime, move on.

It was good enough for Wolfgang Amadeus, it's good enough for dumbass Covid-denying white-wingers.