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In other news from this great nation today;
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/507600-georgia-governor-overrides-all-local-mask-orders-in-the-state
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) is prohibiting local municipalities across the state from mandating that masks be worn in public to...
It just gets crazier by the day -- in other news, some republican states that have been following Trump's lead and refusing to do really anything at all, have imposed mask mandates today;
Alabama - mask now required with very right wing governor stating "We’re almost to the point where our...
Also announced today that LA and San Diego schools will not return to in-classroom learning when they reopen next month, which is also a very good step
Thank **** for that, was hoping it was coming. Too many people that just don't give a shit to let people make choices for themselves! The recent surge numbers are very, very bad here and I don't even think we've got to the post July 4th holiday surge (/extra surge?) yet...
BREAKING: ‘All the Hospitals Are Full’: In Houston, Overwhelmed ICUs Leave COVID-19 Patients Waiting in ERs
https://www.propublica.org/article/all-the-hospitals-are-full-in-houston-overwhelmed-icus-leave-covid-19-patients-waiting-in-ers
Texas congressmen and senators still denying there is...
Today in America:
Florida has been refusing to report hospitalization numbers, they just released them yesterday PM - ICU beds are at capacity at 54 hospitals across 25 counties and 30 hospitals reported that their units were more than 90% full...
Thanks and yeah it really is. Cupboards are full so will ride it out.
If it wouldn't put older family members at risk and we didnt have to contend with how dangerous airports/flying is, I think we'd be on a plane back to sussex for the duration!
Better late than never!
News in last 24 hours seems to be tying the current increases back to Memorial Day (basically a bank holiday weekend) at end of May. Excellent news considering this weekend is the July 4th holiday ("Independence Day") - LA has just preemptively closed all the beaches...
Thanks Bozza, definitely a weird time with no sign of improvement really. Florida and the more republican leaning places are really in trouble as they see masks or any instruction at all as such an 'assault on their freedoms' that they flat out won't get with it, and they're just screwing...
Could be touch and go there - its a total mess unfortunately. We've barely left the house since early March, aside from solo dog walking/driving I've been to the supermarket twice and that's about it. The republican governors are just too scared to go against Trump - there's a White House...