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This is bad news and not the only state with this surge. I give Tate Reeves credit for promoting the vaccine but he didn't really get serious until June.]
Just another loser Democrat Governor …….
My bad. He’s a Republican.
Mississippi and Alabama alternate for last place in terms of percent of adults fully vaccinated. As of yesterday, only 35.36% of adults in Mississippi are fully vaccinated. Imagine those 12-17 are substantially less.
It does not appear the state has imposed any restrictions on the public, relative to masking or distancing.
Looks like most schools opened this week.the University of Mississippi has however, imposed a requirement for masking indoors.
What happens when hospitals are overwhelmed?
Trauma hospitals divert incoming.
Non- urgent services are put on hold.
Hospitals may need to decide which patients have the best shot of surviving and focus resources on them.
North Dakota found itself in a similar position last November when it achieved the highest Covid hospitalization and fatality rate in the world. Adjoining states could no longer accommodate air lifted patients. The Air Force sent healthcare resources.
The Delta Variant is an excellent case of massive over-hype. Should you get vaccinated? Yeah, sure. Is everyone going to be bullied into vaccinating? Obviously not. Are variants going to kill people? Yes they will. But even in Florida (after the CDC corrected their misreported numbers) is not seeing an overwhelming surge of deaths.
We were essentially promised dead bodies everywhere and all sorts of doom and gloom. What we got instead was quick and significant uptick in cases, followed by a quick decline to pre-Delta levels. More people did die, but it was tiny compared to pre-vaccine days.
The entire country needs to stop obsessing about new daily cases and focus on the statistic that actually matters: New daily deaths.
Mississippi is in the middle of the Delta surge, so yes their hospitals are getting busier. That said, it's not looking any worse than January/February, where Covid-19 cases were exploding everywhere. Mississippi might need help to get over the hump, but it won't last long. Their daily deaths are nowhere near as bad as earlier in the pandemic. Just as we saw in Florida, that isn't likely to change. It is very curious that news media chooses to act like this is the worst they've seen. It simply isn't.
Why does news media want to keep us all perpetually terrified???
It's approaching where it was in January this time due to the Delta Variant in unvaccinated, where do you get over-hype, certainly not from health officials.
This event is just demonstrating the reason for the quarantine measures: when the number of COVID-19 cases overload the medical system, the mortality rate will rapidly escalate.
This is bad news and not the only state with this surge. I give Tate Reeves credit for promoting the vaccine but he didn't really get serious until June.
It's approaching where it was in January this time due to the Delta Variant in unvaccinated, where do you get over-hype, certainly not from health officials.
Mississippi was not being reported as "hopelessly overwhelmed to the point of breaking" in January. So why spin that story now?
Yes cases shot up. Sure more vaccinations would have helped. But its not as though Mississippi isn't vaccinating at all: The work of getting people vaccinated continues apace. Because the over 65 crowd is mostly vaccinated in Mississippi (just like everywhere in the USA) the number of deaths is unlikely to look anything like pre-vaccine surges.
Ultimately, everyone will have to get inoculated one way or another. You're pretty much going to catch Covid-19 at some point. If you're vaccinated, you're vastly less likely to have a bad case and possibly die. But if you're not vaccinated, at this point that was your personal choice. Overwhelming odds are that you'll live and also be inoculated when your immune system fights off the disease. You'd have been better off vaccinated, but we get to herd immunity one way or the other.
End of the day, everyone's gonna catch this thing and be inoculated one way or another.
Tate Reeves needs to request the ships, I don't see that he has done so.
This is the same governor that claimed CDC guidelines are foolish back in June.
Finally an intelligent post! Tate Reeves is the blame for the pandemic crisis in Mississippi! Leave Joe Biden out Tate Reeves failure and refusal to act!
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