Thread by @StormMela

When health service providers on the news-cable or otherwise-say we’re about to exceed our capacity, do you know what that means?

The short version is that the death rate is going to accelerate dramatically. Sick people will be dying in hallways. 🧵

Not just ICUs, but EVERY cranny and nook in every hospital will be filled with the dying.

It’s not as scary when they say “exceed our capacity”, though, is it?

Scientists are trained to remain calm and factual, so the public often fails to grasp the danger./2

Patients will die in transit, in the small rural hospitals they were taken to originally, their medical staffs frantically making phone calls to larger facilities further and further away to try to get help for these poor folks. /3

And yes, they will even try to save the slack-jawed, MAGA-hat-wearing lackwits who insist they are NOT dying of SARS-CoV-2 because they believe the most prolific liar in history.

We need leaders who will step up and tell people they may not be able to get /4

a kidney transplant, or by-pass surgery, or a hip replacement because doctors and nurses and hospital staff are simply not available to perform the surgery, or there’s no blood for transfusions because people can’t donate. /5

And they will die in dipshit-infused cult-hood, “free” of the hateful dictates of rational people who want to take away their “freedom” by asking them to wear a mask.

Their freedom to leave their faces uncovered is more important to them than your life.

P.S. If you want to help, wear a mask, stay out of public gatherings, wash your hands and avoid people who refuse to take these mandates seriously.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.