I was with my mother one time when her oxygen concentrator failed, and her portable unit was out of power. She had a limited supply of liquid oxygen. It was the scariest day of my life, but we were not in a disaster and she could have called for an ambulance if things got worse.
https://twitter.com/ShannonNajma/status/1362628495109595137
I mean, I would have called for the ambulance, but she could afford it, and have a reasonable assurance that sufficient resources existed on the ground to send one to her promptly.
Having watched someone I love struggling to breathe and trying to deal with the cascading crisis bringing it on... has made this last year the worst kind of trip. And now seeing these kinds of utterly preventable travesties out of Texas, on top of that?
I am beyond done with the Republican Party, with the idea that they perform some essential balancing function to the republic. Carthago delenda est. The Democrats are all the opposition we need.
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