New Virus Variants Could Kill Thousands In Red States
While multimillionaire well-vaccinated Fox “News” hosts continue to sow doubt about masks and Covid vaccines to jack up the billions in revenue the channel brings in every year for the Murdoch family, the CEO of a hospital chain in Missouri is begging them to tell the truth.
People in red counties across America are reporting on social media the same thing Louise and I saw when we visited a rural town in Oregon last weekend: nobody’s wearing masks or practicing social distancing. They believe rightwing media’s lies that Covid’s “just like the flu” or “vaccines are experimental” or “it’s all a Democrat hoax.” They’re following Trump’s notion that masks make men look “weak.”
As a result of this, Eric Frederick, the chief administrative officer of Mercy Hospital in Springfield, Missouri, tells the AP that they have been “inundated with COVID-19 patients as the variant first identified in India rips through the largely non-immunized community.”
When the Covid virus first showed up in the United States in January of last year, then-president Donald Trump quietly told reporter Bob Woodward that it was both deadly and airborne.
“This is deadly stuff,” Trump told Woodward on February 7th, 2020. “You just breathe the air and that’s how it’s passed And so that’s a very tricky one. That’s a very delicate one. It’s also more deadly than even your strenuous flu.”
That’s not, of course, what Trump and his lackeys told the American people, as they set up the deaths of over 600,000 Americans with more to come this year. “I wanted to always play it down,” Trump told Woodward a month later. “I still like playing it down…”
New Virus Variants Could Kill Thousands In Red States
While multimillionaire well-vaccinated Fox “News” hosts continue to sow doubt about masks and Covid vaccines to jack up the billions in revenue the channel brings in every year for the Murdoch family, the CEO of a hospital chain in Missouri is begging them to tell the truth.
People in red counties across America are reporting on social media the same thing Louise and I saw when we visited a rural town in Oregon last weekend: nobody’s wearing masks or practicing social distancing. They believe rightwing media’s lies that Covid’s “just like the flu” or “vaccines are experimental” or “it’s all a Democrat hoax.” They’re following Trump’s notion that masks make men look “weak.”
As a result of this, Eric Frederick, the chief administrative officer of Mercy Hospital in Springfield, Missouri, tells the AP that they have been “inundated with COVID-19 patients as the variant first identified in India rips through the largely non-immunized community.”
When the Covid virus first showed up in the United States in January of last year, then-president Donald Trump quietly told reporter Bob Woodward that it was both deadly and airborne.
“This is deadly stuff,” Trump told Woodward on February 7th, 2020. “You just breathe the air and that’s how it’s passed And so that’s a very tricky one. That’s a very delicate one. It’s also more deadly than even your strenuous flu.”
That’s not, of course, what Trump and his lackeys told the American people, as they set up the deaths of over 600,000 Americans with more to come this year. “I wanted to always play it down,” Trump told Woodward a month later. “I still like playing it down…”
https://www.nationalmemo.com/red-state-covid-wave