Mississippi asks Biden administration to send military hospital ship

13NewsNow ^ | 12 August 2021 | Emily Shapiro,Ivan Pereira, and Meredith Deliso

[blueplum]

Norfolk-based USNS Comfort was deployed to help treat patients in the early days of the pandemic. Mississippi health officials hope it can be deployed again.

NORFOLK, Va. — Hampton Roads could send help to one of the COVID-19 pandemic's hardest-hit states.

Mississippi has requested the federal government send a military hospital ship such as the Norfolk-based USNS Comfort to help its overloaded hospitals with COVID-19 patients, state health official Jim Craig said Wednesday....

The University of Mississippi Medical Center has 127 COVID-19 patients, including 26 children, Dean LouAnn Woodward said Wednesday. About 90% of them are unvaccinated, she said.

The dean warned, "The Mississippi hospital system will fail within the next five to seven or 10 days if the current trajectory continues.”

[wardaddy]

Because I enjoy being politically incorrect

Besides the demigod Martin Luther King used it much more than he said black

It's more definitive ....

I don't call mongoliodal raced Asians either....

They are oriental

I think red dot Indians and Pashtuns and Sikhs and all,the Stans are Asians though Otherwise ....Israelis and Turks are Asian same as Koreans and Japs....which is stupid

I detest virtue signaling over race....it's cheap unfunded self righteousness

It's undermined western civilization more than any other factor ....

where in the Boro.....btw....Nashville metro is now officially not in the south...anymore..

[coop71]

Fair enough. Was just curious.

I lived with my family in married student housing at MTSU in the 1970’s (while dad was getting his degree), and attended Hobgood Elementary school.

[albie]

No sh— a—wipe. Nothing is happening in MS except panic stricken dbags that can’t control themselves from wetting the bed and running and hiding from a disease that has a 99+% rate of survival. Now go get your 3rd booster.

[Gunslingr3]

I live in Mississippi. I call bullshit. Yes, we are having a surge of covid right now, but the symptoms are light in all the cases I’ve seen. Mostly sniffles.

Work in a hospital?

[Gunslingr3]

I live in Mississippi. I call bullshit. Yes, we are having a surge of covid right now, but the symptoms are light in all the cases I’ve seen. Mostly sniffles.

Work in a hospital?

[VideoDoctor]

Once again the narrative is ALL about INFECTIONS.... nothing, if much at all, mentioned about any serious DEATH RATE that correlates .

[wardaddy]

My wife went to Mitchell Nelson

I’m from the actual south.

A 40% African American ..lol...state

Blacks are no mystery to me...whatsoever

Middle TN has few compared to my hometown

I was zealous defender of the negro race from oppression in the 1960s as a lad

I mean defiant and zealous

The worm sure turned...

[whattajoke]

Easy there, cowboy. When you have a moment, I’ll explain to you how obvious jokes work. And I’m talking, OBVIOUS. I’m pretty sure literally 100% of Americans know New York City is in New York and not Mississippi.

Have a good one.

[coop71]

We moved after MTSU. High school was in an NC county that was 37% white. College nearly the same (the county, not the actual college). Army Reserves was 50/50. Worked/lived til marriage in NC/SC. Mom worked and sister still works in Marlboro county in SC. It’s 50% black. I’ve been around a lot of black people. Not many in my Pilates class, PTA mtgs, or in our rural New Jersey neighborhood these days, though.

I’ve come to realize blacks are a lot like West Virginians, where my husband is from & went to school, where we once lived full time, and still own a house, hunting cabin, and a bunch of land. Can’t lump all blacks into one category, or even two. Can’t lump all West Virginians into one or two categories either: assuming they’re all fat, feral, welfare/disability/meth addicts who’ve served time and can’t read. Even though plenty live in the county around our property. There are also plenty of hard working, really decent West Virginians, too. The decent outweigh the trash 10:1. You just wouldn’t know it by appearances sometimes.

Everyone is different and assumptions don’t usually work in the holler, or in Bennettsville, SC, til you actually get to know someone.

Maybe Tennessee is different. Probably is since I lived there.

Understand that my telling you all this isn’t to try and start a pissing match with you. I’m letting you know my experiences have been different than yours, but also probably pretty similar, and I get where you’re coming from on all this. I disagree with some of it, but that’s life.

[wardaddy]

I know you hon....your posting history on race here..I get it

I was you once

[dereknunley]

No, but my wife, and daughter in law do.