“...Within the next five to seven to 10 days, I think we’re going to see failure of the hospital system in Mississippi,”
- Dr. Alan Jones, UMMC Associate Vice Chancellor for Clinical Affairs
"If there was a bus wreck of kids, we would not be able to take care of all of those kids at this hospital. We are in a pretty serious situation."
This is not what they're warning might happen, this is today. This is what's happening right now.
The state of Mississippi is in trouble.
"One of the most difficult things is discussing end-of-life and worsening status with family members of these young patients."
- Dr. Ijlal Babar, critical care director at Singing River Health in Ocean Springs Mississippi
"It's just heartbreaking in every way. I don't even know how to describe it.
It's overwhelming." - Jen Sartin, ICU nurse
It is time, once again, to start thinking about what we all can do to support health workers in our lives.
They are a group of our fellow Americans who are going to need not just recognition and thanks, but they're likely to need help from the rest of us.
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"In the administration's discussions on the issue, some officials at the [DHS] and the State Department have voiced misgivings about evacuating Afghan partners to Guam or other U.S. territory where their visa applications would be reviewed..." nbcnews.com/politics/natio…
"If an Afghan's visa request were denied on U.S. territory, legal experts said, the applicant would have recourse to appeal the decision under American immigration law, possibly opening up a legal process that could take months to resolve."
"In a third country, the Afghan applicant would have virtually no grounds to appeal the rejection of a U.S. visa request or deportation back to Afghanistan, as the applicant would be subject to the third country's laws, the experts said."
The tax dodge scheme described in today's Weisselberg indictment as benefitting "Trump Organization executives, including but not limited to Weisselberg" is just like the scheme described in NYTimes reporting about payments made to Ivanka Trump.
"We, in our reporting, suspected, and we reported about, was that this was an attempt by Donald Trump to reduce his taxable income and to transfer money to his kids." -Susanne Craig, NYTimes investigative reporter @susannecraig
Despite the hoopla about the bipartisan compromise infrastructure bill reaching an agreed upon framework, it's a bigger deal that all elements of the Democratic side are united on the two-bill plan for moving forward on infrastructure.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal @RepJayapal, chair of the House Progressive Caucus, points out that a simultaneous, dual bill solution is what progressives were advocating for for weeks.
"We have a culture problem in the Republican Party."
"Rather than solving the problems of their citizenry ... they are using their precious time in state legislature after state legislature to pass voting restriction laws targeting Black, brown, and young voters." @marceelias
"If we can buy time for our democracy and maybe have some shift in the [GOP] that it stops viewing people voting as an existential threat to the party, rather they start to see the participation of all Americans as a goal we should aspire to, then maybe we succeed." @marceelias
"Do I think it violates federal law? Yeah, I do. Because federal law requires that the ballots in federal elections be kept for 22 months after the election, and these ballots have essentially been tainted. Do I think it violates state law in some of these states? Yeah."
"One of the things that I've really be struggling with in processing is how quickly these patients deteriorate. How they go from walking and talking to being intubated to being pronounced dead within a matter of hours."
"Because of the way COVID is, they're not allowed to see their family even if they are hospitalized. So it can be weeks before they see their family, or it can be the last time that they see their family."