“... Reading more and more about Texan’s growing disappointment with that governor.”
People seem to be so sure that the hospitals in Texas were not over run physically and financially by covid. They have been.
The nursing homes in new yorke were devastated. The staffs were traumatized as well as massively infected. Nurses dread winter and a resurgence.
The restaurants in Texas are trying. Parking lots full. This virus was spreading in bars and at parties.
Greg Abbott is not exactly doing the destructive job of some governors allowing massive rioting.
I don’t know what you mean by ‘physically’ but all the hospitials were financially devastated by the requirement to stop all ‘elective’ treatments.
One of the biggest money makers at our local (small) hospital was the Sleep Lab.
They stopped all of the testing for sleep apnea and other sleep disorders for three months. The lab could do 4 test a night 5 nights a week. At $7K a test that $140K a week lost income. For a 40 bed hospital that is a lot of lost money.
All of management across the entire Corporation took a 6% pay cut all overtime was cut unless it was to cover a sickness. My wife who worked in the sleep lab was cut to 20 hours a week and had to use vacation time to make up for lost hours and maintain her insurance.
It wasn’t COVID that devastated hospitals it was the government restrictions. The hospitals in the US could have handled COVID just fine it the government had sat on their hands.