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Mississippi builds second field hospital in days
NY Post ^ | 08/18/2021 | AP

Posted on 08/18/2021 8:42:11 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

JACKSON, Miss. — On normal days, the garage is where people park while visiting Mississippi’s only children’s hospital, a building next door decorated with a logo of a rainbow and sun. Now air-conditioned tents with beds, monitors and oxygen fill the garage’s bottom floor.

By Wednesday, coronavirus patients will begin being treated in Mississippi’s second field hospital opened within days on the University of Mississippi Medical Center campus. It comes as the surging delta variant of COVID-19 has overwhelmed hospitals in a state with one of the nation’s lowest vaccination rates

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What the hell is going on???
1 posted on 08/18/2021 8:42:11 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Liberal insurrection.


2 posted on 08/18/2021 8:43:15 AM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

anyone near there? how about grabbing us some photos?


3 posted on 08/18/2021 8:44:01 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Do you know anyone that is sick with influenza in august? Neither do I! It’s called propaganda.


4 posted on 08/18/2021 8:44:46 AM PDT by foundedonpurpose (Praise Hashem, for his restoration of all things!)
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To: ransomnote; Cathi; SecAmndmt; metmom; Pollard; HypatiaTaught; bagster; grey_whiskers; tatown; ...

Don’t even need to say it ping.


5 posted on 08/18/2021 8:44:56 AM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They’re lying.


6 posted on 08/18/2021 8:45:49 AM PDT by ifinnegan ( Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Mr. K

Patience my friend, good photoshopping takes some time.


7 posted on 08/18/2021 8:46:08 AM PDT by Right Brother
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Well they turned NYC Central Park into an unused field hospital too. Now send a few hospital ships to Pascagoula!


8 posted on 08/18/2021 8:46:53 AM PDT by nascarnation
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Refrigerated trucks for the stacked-up corpses too, no doubt!
/s


9 posted on 08/18/2021 8:47:18 AM PDT by mn-bush-man
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Seems sensible. Get more patients, add more capacity.

No need for governments forcing the rest of society to come to a screeching, grinding halt.


10 posted on 08/18/2021 8:47:47 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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11 posted on 08/18/2021 8:50:26 AM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Fear mongering. How long before the reports of EVERY ICU in every hospital across the country has reached max capacity? So hurry up and get your shots. That don’t really do much in the way of prevention but if you don’t there will be a lot of prevention. On folks liberty. Why yes Virginia, folks actually are that easy.


12 posted on 08/18/2021 8:51:20 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This happens a lot for the flu, too.

https://time.com/5107984/hospitals-handling-burden-flu-patients/

https://www.dailyrepublic.com/all-dr-news/solano-news/fairfield/military-field-hospitals-on-way-to-state-to-meet-projected-need-for-hospital-beds/

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/SF-officials-confirm-first-swine-flu-case-3163181.php


13 posted on 08/18/2021 8:51:41 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Fully Vaccinated ?


14 posted on 08/18/2021 8:52:26 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Samaritan’s Purse is building it....do folks here think Franklin Graham is part of a conspiracy.

I hate to break it to folks here but Covid whatever variant is on the upswing in the south

My best friend left in Jackson Mississippi had Covid now and it’s lingering....his words....”there is a lot of Covid in Jackson right now”

I just wrote him....he lives in Belhaven....a nice old neighborhood near the hospital and stadium

Where Eudora Welty lived....

It’s also on the upswing in middle TN

My sons school ....has a lot of it...half his pals have it or are quarantined

Most kids are asymptomatic more or less...mild


15 posted on 08/18/2021 8:52:54 AM PDT by wardaddy (Fear Republic land of grumps)
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To: Mr. K

I’m checking via my best pal who lives really close...all my fam is Jax area except those I created


16 posted on 08/18/2021 8:54:53 AM PDT by wardaddy (Fear Republic land of grumps)
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If I didn’t come to freerepublic I wouldn’t even know that covid was still a thing. Once in awhile I’ll see a few people with masks on, that’s about it.


17 posted on 08/18/2021 9:00:00 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Free Chauvin)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’m not really a tent person.

Could I strap a hammock between a couple trees?


18 posted on 08/18/2021 9:00:13 AM PDT by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
This is not about hospitals being overwhelmed with COVID patients.

This is about hospitals refusing to recreate their COVID wards that led them to losing millions of dollars from other patients, especially scheduled surgeries that were canceled.

Many "regular" patients took their money and went to other hospitals. Those that still had COVID wards got burned twice; once by losing regular patients, the second time when all the surrounding hospitals sent COVID patients to them.

They want them in tents and parking decks so that the rest of the hospital buildings don't have to follow the lockdown rules.

19 posted on 08/18/2021 9:00:30 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: ConservativeMind

Turns out they weren’t needed and the nurses made tiktok dance videos instead.

U.S. Field Hospitals Stand Down, Most Without Treating Any COVID-19 Patients

https://www.npr.org/2020/05/07/851712311/u-s-field-hospitals-stand-down-most-without-treating-any-covid-19-patients

Kentucky Fairgrounds Field Hospital Open, But Empty

https://wfpl.org/kentucky-fairgrounds-field-hospital-open-but-empty/

Field Hospital Intended To Handle COVID-19 Is Disbanded Without Seeing A Single Patient

https://dailycaller.com/2020/04/10/amry-field-hospital-coronavirus-washington-jay-inslee/

Houston Looking at Dismantling $17M Temp Hospital That Didn’t See a Single Patient

https://www.westernjournal.com/houston-looking-dismantling-17m-temp-hospital-didnt-see-single-patient/


20 posted on 08/18/2021 9:00:34 AM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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