. @MummoloNews I understand you are asking folks for a grade for Oklahoma leadership on its COVID response. As a nurse and healthcare lawyer who works with hospitals and providers all over Oklahoma, I say a solid F-. I’m not sure if they could have done worse if they’d tried.
First, @GovStitt spent $2M on useless HQN. He hired a nitwit no one to buy masks that never appeared, losing more money. Stitt and #OKleg were reluctant to follow any medical advice, participated in #TrumpRallyFail in Tulsa that, despite few attendees, those present were exposed.
Herman Cain died, much of Trump’s on-site staff got COVID. No effort to slow the pandemic here to speak of. We still have highest per capita death rate in the COUNTRY, one of bottom 5 states on vaccination rates. Right now, hospitals are full, staff exhausted statewide.
Even with the highest infection rate since the pandemic started, no emergency has been called, so our public boards and authorities have to meet in person, risking the health of city volunteer leaders and city councilors. Masking is mocked, boosters ignored, schools collapsing.
Now #okleg and Stitt want to give parents a choice to take the taxpayers’ money to chose schools that may or may not be any good, further eroding our public schools, damaging our ability to attract and retain businesses that demand a good public school system.
And THEN, with healthcare professionals exhausted and some quitting, there is no new funding for our state health professional schools, few are in the pipeline to accept open healthcare jobs. We have to fund nursing, medical and respiratory therapy schools.
With so many Oklahomans having had COVID, almost 1M, we can expect at least 20% to experience long COVID, go on disability, further eroding our workforce. If we didn’t have federal ARPA funds, we’d never crawl out of @GovStitt’s hole. So, F-, if I’m charitable. I could go on. F—
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