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By your own link Idaho isn't "the fastest growing state in America".
Yeah also don’t think percentage growth is a great measure in regards to things like hospital capacity. Highest percentage growth of a state that ranks #39 in population isn’t all that many people compared to larger states when we’re splitting hairs with single digit percentage growth.
What’s a bigger impact to infrastructure? 3.47% of WA state’s 7,797,100 or 4.1% growth on Idaho’s 1,826,160? And talking about shipping ID excess cases to WA. https://worldpopulationreview.com/states
Rural patients transfer to big city hospitals everyday. When I was with a Colorado Springs hospital, they transferred in patients from the western slope. People over there either went to the Springs or Salt Lake City. What you are describing isn't unusual.
Rural patients transfer to big city hospitals everyday. When I was with a Colorado Springs hospital, they transferred in patients from the western slope. People over there either went to the Springs or Salt Lake City.
It can work the other way around. My small town hospital, which has been busier than usual, has taken in a few covid patients from Oklahoma City where ICU beds haven't always been available.
Sometime you just have to put politics aside, something the left obviously can't do. Ever.
If it was up to them, "political affiliation" would be a question on a hospital admission form.
I dont know if you've noticed but Oregon has in the past helped NY during the worst of their pandemic by sending some of our ventilators. If Our Idaho neighbors need help we will do what we can
I think you're projecting how the right reacts to this stuff, and just assuming the left is the same. We're not.
No worries, Seattle and Portland are always ready and willing to help. Thanks to the governors of each state, the PNW has been relatively spared thus far. Kudos to WA, OR, and the regional responses to the pandemic that are allowing these cities to absorb cases from neighboring states, states that are not taking this pandemic as seriously as they should.
After this, they may start taking masks and social distancing more seriously and stop trying to make it about politics. Then again, that's not very likely.
They enjoy going on about how "libruls are loosing their heads over coronavirus", but when our "obsession" with face masks and social distancing is keeping our numbers down while red state numbers soar, they get bothered if someone points it out. Good at dishing it out but can't take it.
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Originally Posted by Camaro5
Sometime you just have to put politics aside, something the left obviously can't do. Ever.
If it was up to them, "political affiliation" would be a question on a hospital admission form.
Do you folks on the right ever look in the mirror? Apparently not.
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Originally Posted by greywar
I dont know if you've noticed but Oregon has in the past helped NY during the worst of their pandemic by sending some of our ventilators. If Our Idaho neighbors need help we will do what we can
I think you're projecting how the right reacts to this stuff, and just assuming the left is the same. We're not.
Deep red Idaho has always made fun of Seattle and Portland for the cities’ “librul” denizens. But as COVID cases in Idaho rise at an alarming rate and overrun their regional hospital capacity, Idaho now has to crawl to the west begging Seattle and Portland for help. Oh the humanity...
When anti-mask, deep red Idaho gets into trouble, whom do they call? Seattle! Portland!
Not surprising, since Idaho is being choked with the numbers of refugees leaving those hellholes.
Yep, I know so many people from Washington (including wife and I) who are looking at moving to Idaho. Northern Idaho is being flooded with refugees from liberal states that are destroying their freedoms.
My deep red county, which is home to a rural regional hospital has been taking CoVid patients from the occasionally overwhelmed deep blue urban city 45 minutes away on and off since almost the beginning of it hitting our state. It makes perfect sense given that the big city has anywhere between 25-30% of the states’ cases and our seven county area has had no more than 3-5% of the cases. We had empty beds, including ICU beds, and they were putting people on gurneys in hallways.
Our state has also taken patients from other states with much higher infection rates. What is your point?
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Sometime you just have to put politics aside, something the left obviously can't do. Ever.
If it was up to them, "political affiliation" would be a question on a hospital admission form.
some people on the left. and some on the right.
otherwise, by assigning a behavior universally, you're playing the same game.
no surprise from the OP, in fact I was about to make this same point.
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