Texas is where incompetence overlaps. Maybe malevolence as well.
Unwilling to protect its citizens from gun violence, a man in Houston
found out that if one gets shot, it might be a while before he gets
help.
Let me restate that-a man needs surgery because he was shot. He was
shot because gun violence is wholly out of control in Houston. Gun
violence is out of control in Houston largely because you can buy one as
easily as you pick up milk and bread. And when the gentleman found
himself victimized by a gun, shot six times, and in need of surgery, the
overlapping incompetence that is represented by a Governor who got himself
infected with Covid, acts as a seventh wound.
It’s been 10 days since Joel Valdez was shot outside of a Houston
grocery store, and he still hasn’t been able to undergo surgery, due to
his hospital being overcrowded with COVID-19 patients.
Valdez was sitting inside his car on Aug. 6 when he was shot six
times, an innocent bystander caught in the crossfire of a domestic
dispute. He was brought to Ben Taub Hospital, where as of Monday morning
the intensive care unit was at 103 percent capacity, with 33 percent of
the beds filled with COVID-19 patients, The Washington Post reports.
Valdez was shot three times in his left shoulder and needs surgery, but
the hospital is so overwhelmed by COVID-19 that he’s still waiting.
“Everybody is really surprised I’m still in this bed a week later,“ he told Fox 26 over the weekend.
With the highly contagious Delta variant spreading across the
United States and millions of people still not vaccinated, hospitals in
Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, and other states are reporting bed
shortages. Valdez told Fox 26 it’s "a little frustrating” that he has
“broken bones and bullets in me” but doctors don’t see getting him into
surgery as an urgent matter. He advises his fellow Houston residents to
“do your best to maintain your health and not end up in a situation that
puts you in the hospital right now.”
As one might expect after being shot, Mr. Valdez would like to repair his bullet wounds in a timely manner if at all possible.
This makes sense. Bullet holes in a human being tend to age poorly.
Most humans like to have said bullet holes fixed, so they can get back
to their daily routines of playing Hunger Games: Road Rage Edition,
trying to not get poisoned by a chemical plant leak, and building a
waterproof platform on their roof for the now yearly floods climate
change has wrought.
And don’t forget in wintertime some lucky Texans get chosen by
electricity providers to do historical re-enactments where they burn
anything combustible to stay alive.
Yes it is always an adrenaline rush in Texas.
So as you can see, Mr. Valdez has a lot challenges to face.
I wish him well and hope that there is no next time he gets shot, but
if he does, it is during a time where hospitals don’t resemble
something that could serve as the inspiration for the next Saw sequel. …
Alabama’s state motto is “We Dare Maintain Our Rights,” and to Bama born and bred
mufreedummies that means they have the God-given right to not wear a
mask or get jabbed while also having the right to occupy a hospital bed
when they get deathly sick from Covid-19.
That’s why, in the state that boasts the lowest vaccination rate in
the United States, free-riders are peeved-a-plenty at an Alabama doctor
who has a sign on his door that reads:
Effective October 1st, 2021 Dr. Valentine will no longer see patients that are not vaccinated against COVID.19.
Alabama reported 4,465 new
coronavirus cases Wednesday, increasing its seven-day average of daily
infections to 3,728, according to data compiled by The Post.
All but one county in the state have been deemed by the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention as areas of high community transmission.
There are more than 2,900 people in Alabama hospitalized because of
covid-19, the fifth-highest state total in the country. The number of
hospitalizations is approaching the record set in the state on Jan. 11,
according to the Alabama Department of Public Health, when the vaccine was not widely available.
The
dire situation has strained the state’s hospital system to the point
that there are more patients in intensive care units than there are
available ICU beds, according to the Alabama Hospital Association.
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