Posted on 07/09/2020 8:00:15 PM PDT by BeauBo
The South Texas border county of Hidalgo County is in a “dire situation” due to uncontrolled coronavirus cases, and will start issuing “criminal consequences” for those who are needlessly out and about, county leaders announced Thursday.
Hidalgo County had a record 1,274 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday and 10 coronavirus-related deaths, Eddie Olivarez, the county’s chief administrative officer for Health and Human Services, announced during a FaceBook live event on Thursday afternoon. There are 741 COVID patients currently hospitalized, with 200 in the intensive care units...
Hidalgo County Judge Richard Cortez said oxygen and ventilators were in short supply and the county is trying to open a field hospital to open up more space for the growing numbers of patients...
The county has asked state and federal officials for an additional 2,500 medical personnel, and the response of an ambulance strike team of 10 units sent from state officials has been extended until at least July 19, Hidalgo County Emergency Management Coordinator Ricardo Saldaña said.
(Excerpt) Read more at borderreport.com ...
The article does not once mention the illegal immigrants carrying the disease, or mention them at all - as if this place was Topeka or Kalamazoo, and not ground zero for illegal immigration from Mexico.
If only they had a great wall to protect them...
“Cases” are not COVID.
Or a Texas militia
WGAFF about “cases”?
What matter are hospitalizations, ICU hospitalizations, and intubations.
Illegal coming across the border.
Illegals coming across the border.
Yep! Maybe they could ask the Governor of New York for som ventilators he has thousands in his warehouse!
It is utterly stupid to concern oneself with how many covid cases have just been confirmed. The stat is worthless. What is important is what percentage of people have it. What percentage have symptoms. What percentage are contagious. What is the mortality rate. What percentage of people are naturally immune. And of course putting together what is the Herd Immunity Threshold, and will the threshold go lower when the lockdown restrictions are lifted.
Meanwhile, the idiot press gives us useless statistics. Can’t do their damn job.
1 positive = 36 cases.
It’s how it’s done.
The fake news (via New Drudge) wants to say Mexico wants to close the border to keep sick Americans out.
Sure. That’s the ticket.
You left out the most important thing to know about “cases”: Age.
What would be REALLY useful is to tell people HONESTLY who it kills.
Diabetics, The overweight, etc.
By now the government should have App you on your phone put your height, weight, age, blood type, race and a check box of 7 co-morbidities, hit enter it will tell you you percentage chance of hospitalization and/or death within 2%.
But no, we have to lockup healthy people and destroy the economy.
We're also testing more and those are being counted as a bloom in cases when they were there all along, just not tested. (asymptomatic - not ill but counted as cases)
If they are overcounting illnesses at a factor of 15 to 1 in this locale in Texas, how can we trust any numbers at all?
In Texas the increase in the Virus case numbers are a lie!
Youtube ^ | June 30, 2020 | Youtube Channel: Gevte
It isn’t just illegals, it is Mexicans coming in on day visas.
DR. BARRETT FOUND THE SILVER BULLET FOR COVID RIGHT UNDER OUR NOSES!
Some folk died needlessly? BIG DEAL! Can’t make an omelet without breaking a few (score thousand) eggs, right?
If what you learn in the next half hour fails to make you very, very angry, see if you can fog a mirror. And, if you’re a Democrat, when you’re done, you’re STILL a Democrat, get a CAT scan of your head. See that tiny little BB thing on the monitor? Your brain!
Please share the “good news” far and wide!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDSDdwN2Xcg&feature=youtu.be
funny how you can mention migrants elsewhere, but not in US:
4 Jul: The Economist: The new normal: Covid-19 is here to stay. The world is working out how to live with it
People will have to change their behaviour to prevent second waves of the virus
Cluster headaches
In many European countries new covid-19 cases have crept up as restrictions have eased. So far cases have appeared in clusters, often linked to parties or other celebrations where people have gathered in large numbers. But the biggest clusters have often been among migrant workers. In Britain, Germany, Spain and Italy migrant workers from Africa and eastern Europe often live in cramped accommodation. A lot of them work in food-packing factories—loud places where workers stand close to one another, often yelling to make themselves heard over the clatter of machinery, creating ideal conditions for the virus to spread. Many are not fluent in the local language and so struggle to understand messages about preventing the spread of covid-19 or to get in touch with doctors if they become ill. Public-health authorities are now more aware of the problem and making greater use of translators...
https://www.economist.com/international/2020/07/04/covid-19-is-here-to-stay-the-world-is-working-out-how-to-live-with-it
20 Jun: The Economist: Breathing room: Singapore promises roomier digs for migrant workers
The government wants to stop covid-19 from spreading in cramped dormitories
MIGRANT WORKERS are vital to Singapore’s economy, as they make up two-fifths of the labour force. But they are not a popular cause...
On June 1st Lawrence Wong, co-chair of Singapore’s covid-19 task-force, announced plans to build lower-density dormitories for some 100,000 migrant workers. The new housing, he warned, would inevitably encroach on other residential areas...
Nearly all Singapore’s 41,000 covid-19 cases have been among migrant workers. A quarter of them live in dorms packed with as many as 16 people per room...
https://www.economist.com/asia/2020/06/20/singapore-promises-roomier-digs-for-migrant-workers
I think this manufactured panic over a disease that has such a low fatality rate among healthy adults has gone on long enough. Now it is no more than government deciding how much tyranny the serfs will bow to.
“I think this manufactured panic over a disease that has such a low fatality rate among healthy adults has gone on long enough. Now it is no more than government deciding how much tyranny the serfs will bow to.“
This ^^^^^^
REMEMBER — “CASES”
Not deaths
Not hospitalizations
Just people who have been TESTED and show having the virus
NOT EVEN showing symptoms
TESTING is now in full swing (now that they can actually do it en masse.)
OF COURSE THEY ARE GOING TO FIND more ‘cases’
.
Disagree. How many died is what we need to know:
Coming in on 1 day visas?
WTH aren’t we charging them for and then doing a PCR rapid test on them before allowing them into the country?!
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