Posted on 04/25/2020 10:26:19 AM PDT by simpson96
On March 7, Joshua Love became a part of Chicago’s other pandemic. The 21-year old was shot, the single bullet severing his spinal cord.
Long before the word coronavirus became a part of our lives, another public health crisis played out in Chicago on an almost daily basis: people being shot.
That crisis has not abated.
Love is now a patient at Schwab Rehabilitation Center on Chicago’s West Side.
“I can’t walk. I don’t know how long that’s going to last for,” he said during a video call after finishing his morning regimen.
“He sustained a violently acquired spinal cord injury,” said Dr. Michelle Gittler, who serves as chief medical officer for post-acute care at Schwab.
A single bullet can cause havoc inside a body.
“What happens when a missile pierces your body is like old-fashioned pinball, the missile bounces around and bounces around,” Gittler said during an interview standing outside the Rehab Center.
With his spinal cord now severed, Love is part of what he and Dr. Gittler see as Chicago’s other pandemic: gun violence.(snip)
“I mean, we're talking about a vaccine for COVID-19, right. Well, with firearm violence,” she noted, “33,000 and 40,000 firearm deaths [occur] annually. Most of them are suicides. You don't hear people talking about that.”
While one public health crisis has captured the attention of a startled nation, another long-term emergency in Chicago continues victim, after victim, after victim. “We are incapable, as a society, as a community, to discuss this as a public health crisis,” said Gittler.
Asked if gun violence meets the criteria of a pandemic, her one-word answer tells a complete story: “absolutely.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcchicago.com ...
Oh, wait, that's not the anti-gun agenda, is it....
How about this: no politician goes anywhere outside the confines of his or her mansion until there are no more deaths caused by illegal aliens. How would that fly with you, Ms. Mayor?
Chicago doesn’t have a gun violence problem, it has a fatherless homes problem.
What's happening in Chiraq is a breakdown of morality.
When is fake news NBC going to do a hit piece on the opioid epidemic which has killed vastly more people than this fake coronavirus “pandemic” ever will?
Probably never, because it’s basically all white folks dying from opiods.
I wonder what he was engaged in when he got shot.
Yep. It simply doesn’t fit their political agenda.
You watch, the Dems are going to declare gun violence a pandemic and try to use some of the same powers that are being used with this virus.
Incapable of discussing the violence & crime committed by black American men.
Like Chicago has never been anything but a violent city.
Indeed. I showed one of my caregivers at the place where I live, he’s a black man. I showed him the show Cosmos, narrated by Neil deGrasse Tyson. He’s black. I said to my caregiver, you see the real tragedy here? In the state’s young black men are too busy killing each other at a record pace, where they are raised by their grandmothers usually oh, because their mothers are either in prison or too high to take care of them. There is a lot of potential among those young men, but it can never take root. Only the lucky few who have a family that’s willing to sacrifice everything to get them into the best schools stand a chance. And I agree about the meth victims and why the media doesn’t cover them because they’re white they’re white and poor, “redneck trash.”
Chicago will test people dead from gunshot.
Corona will be found.
Another Corona fatality will be recorded
Incapable of discussing the violence & crime committed by black American men.
Very true. We aren’t allowed to touch this subject, otherwise be condemned as racist.
This story can’t be true - Mayor Lighthead banned all of the young men from shooting each other during the Covid Crisis.
Mayor Lighthead LOL.
I get the impression, that Mayor Lightfoot is turning out to be a lightweight when it comes to dealing with serious problems facing Chicago.
'Cause those guns don't just get up and shoot by themselves.
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