Posted on 04/24/2021 3:23:17 PM PDT by BeauBo
Rising infection and hospitalization rates force Mexican border city to go into immediate lockdown.
On Monday morning, El Paso city and county officials lauded vaccination efforts and spoke in hopeful terms about reaching herd immunity.
Across the border a few hours later, Juarez announced a total shutdown of non-essential activities over the next two weekends due to a spike in COVID-19 cases and death and rising hospitalization rates.
All non-essential businesses were to shut down at midnight Friday and reopen Monday at 6 a.m. The lockdown will again be effective on midnight April 30 through the morning of May 3.
Chihuahua state Health Secretary Eduardo Fernandez said an immediate shutdown is necessary to keep the pandemic from reaching October levels, when hospitals became so overcrowded that COVID-19 hallways had to be fashioned into new wards for the emergency care of patients and dozens were dying daily.
“What is affecting more than anything else is mobility. It’s at the highest level we’ve ever seen...
“What is more troubling is we’re seeing younger people hospitalized. Before we saw mostly the elderly. Now we’re seeing people 45 to 60 years old in hospitals,” he said.
Juarez on Friday reported 23 new COVID-19 deaths, compared to only one in El Paso County across the border. Juarez has not tallied 3,062 coronavirus deaths to El Paso’s 2,507.
One big disparity between the two communities separated by the Rio Grande is vaccinations. El Paso has administered 590,597 COVID-19 vaccines, fully protecting 36.5% of its population and getting 58.6% at least one dose. Juarez has received only 90,000 vaccines from the Mexican government and health professionals working at private hospitals are so desperate to get a first dose that they signed a petition to be allowed to cross into El Paso to get one.
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Early one morning while making the rounds...
But the smuggling tunnels will still be open...
Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues (Aug. 30, 1965) by Bob Dylan
When you’re lost in the rain in Juarez, when it’s Easter time, too
And your gravity fails and negativity don’t pull you through
Don’t put on any airs when you’re down on Rue Morgue Avenue
They got some hungry women there
And they really make a mess outta you
Now, if you see Saint Annie, please, tell her, “Thanks a lot”
I cannot move, my fingers are all in a knot
I don’t have the strength to get up and take another shot
And my best friend, my doctor won’t even say what it is I’ve got.*
* Today: Check for Covid, doctor.
Does this mean the show with the girl and the mule is off?
“Does this mean the show with the girl and the mule is off?”
No, the mule is available, and the boss wants it working.
“No, the mule is available, and the boss wants it working.”
Well, the usual girl is gone, so I wonder who will be the “understudy”.
If COVID is SCARY DEATH FOREVVVVERRRRR, then why is the Usurper Biteme telling the Border Patrol to stand down and let all these Covidians into the country?
That’s ok, Burden will still let them in.
Call Beto O’Rourke for a opinion on this event.
Sad... all of those Donkeys out of work.
This could cause a crisis in the fake Cuban cigar industry!
Time to close the border and all roads leading out of the border
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