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A paramedic drove 1,800 miles to help fight coronavirus. Sunday, a funeral procession carried him home.
The Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | 05/04/2020- | Meagan Flynn

Posted on 05/04/2020 12:55:54 PM PDT by SpeedyInTexas

When the call went out from New York for volunteers to travel to the epicenter of the pandemic in the fight against COVID-19, from 1,800 miles away, Paul Cary raised his hand.

On March 28, the veteran paramedic got in an ambulance and drove for 27 hours straight from Colorado Springs, Colorado, to New York City, trading shifts at the wheel with his colleague. They were part of a fleet of 29 private ambulances and 72 medics from across the country, from the company Ambulnz, headed there to ease the burden on the city's overwhelmed EMS services.

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I feel sad.
1 posted on 05/04/2020 12:55:54 PM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
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I wonder what was his underlying condition.?

https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/imm/covid-19-daily-data-summary-deaths-04192020-1.pdf


2 posted on 05/04/2020 12:58:26 PM PDT by silverleaf (President Trump: Do not trust China. China is asshoe!)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Sad indeed. My first question, however: Did he get hydroxycholoquine and zinc?


3 posted on 05/04/2020 12:59:07 PM PDT by Nothingburger
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Wonder what he saw?


4 posted on 05/04/2020 12:59:51 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Heartbreaking read. Endless respect and prayers for him and his family.


5 posted on 05/04/2020 12:59:57 PM PDT by SueRae (An administration like no other.)
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To: SpeedyInTexas
Paul Cary

Paul Cary
 

6 posted on 05/04/2020 1:00:05 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (Guide me, O thou great redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land.)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Cuomo stabbed him in the back. Cuomo outlawed the use of HCQ and Zinc. That may have saved his life. That is murder by Fiat.


7 posted on 05/04/2020 1:00:19 PM PDT by chopperk
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Cuomo and DeBlasio did their best to give him patients to infect him.


8 posted on 05/04/2020 1:00:36 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Nothingburger

Shhh!

We have to wait for the vaccine. You know, the distilled from Unobtanium.


9 posted on 05/04/2020 1:00:38 PM PDT by sevlex
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To: silverleaf
I wonder what was his underlying condition.?

Age & obesity?

10 posted on 05/04/2020 1:01:43 PM PDT by fso301
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To: SpeedyInTexas

I feel sad for him and his family.


11 posted on 05/04/2020 1:02:01 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
Well...he ran into the tornado...

Doesn't look to be in the best of health...but neither do I, these days.

He had to know...what he was risking...

12 posted on 05/04/2020 1:05:01 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Mar's isn't a place to raise your kid...)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Sad.


13 posted on 05/04/2020 1:07:17 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Very sad, but I question whether a 66 yr old should have driven nonstop from Colorado to NYC. ..he went into a war zone for his age. And, then he probably did not get what he needed in NYC.


14 posted on 05/04/2020 1:08:06 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Anyone tired of the Chinese Fire Drill (tm) yet???)
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To: SpeedyInTexas
This is a hero. Giving up or risking one's own life to save that of others. (John McCain was no hero but that's another topic). I hope Trump invites his family to the SOTU and gives him some recognition (Medal of Freedom ? ).
15 posted on 05/04/2020 1:08:57 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: sevlex

Indeed ... the epidemic is bad, but not nearly as bad as the fraud being perpetrated by the political left.

Just when you think they can’t sink any lower, they surprise you and do exactly that.


16 posted on 05/04/2020 1:10:44 PM PDT by Nothingburger
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To: silverleaf
nice gesture on his part..rip good man...

in my neck of the woods we have two types of ambulance drivers and their paramedics....young females with athletic builds and older fat guys....

17 posted on 05/04/2020 1:11:23 PM PDT by cherry
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To: silverleaf

Geezer,sad but should ah stayed home


18 posted on 05/04/2020 1:16:17 PM PDT by Bell Bouy II
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To: Bell Bouy II

Triple neck doesnt look good either


19 posted on 05/04/2020 1:17:13 PM PDT by Bell Bouy II
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To: goodnesswins

God bless him all the same. There are saintly people whose main purpose in life is to help others and this guy is one of those. The gates of heaven will welcome him home.


20 posted on 05/04/2020 1:17:51 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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