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Rural hospitals and COVID-19
Rural hospitals and COVID-19
I was startled to see a doctor from a local hospital on MSNBC’s The Week with Joshua Johnson. Jeremy Topin, MD, is respectful of local reality at every turn, but you can sense his exasperation about life here in COVID times.
#COVID-19#Illinois
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
Rural hospitals and COVID-19
Unforgivable
Unforgivable
In downstate Illinois, a county fair refused to allow a pop-up site for COVID-19 vaccinations.
#COVID-19#Illinois
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
Unforgivable
Camp COVID
Camp COVID
From CNN: “More than 80 teens and adult staffers from a Central Illinois summer camp tested positive for Covid-19 in an outbreak that has impacted people across three states, officials said.”
#COVID-19#Illinois
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
Camp COVID
“It’s pathetic”
“It’s pathetic”
Here’s an anonymous resident of Villa Grove, Illinois, quoted in the Chicago Sun Times. She’s speaking of life in the town where a bar opening in February 2021 was linked to forty-six cases of COVID-19 and a two-week-long school closing.
#COVID-19#Illinois
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
“It’s pathetic”
COVID-19 in Douglas County
COVID-19 in Douglas County
Forty-six cases from one bar opening. This story is now everywhere, with “rural Illinois” or, at best, Douglas County given as the location. A local news source has identified the bar in question.
#COVID-19#Illinois
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
COVID-19 in Douglas County
Mary Miller in the news
Mary Miller in the news
Representative Seth Moulton (D, Massachusetts-6) reports that when he took a photograph of Republican members of Congress “proudly refusing to wear masks” while sheltering in place in the Capitol Building, “a freshman Trump acolyte, Rep. Mary Miller of Illinois, ran over and started screaming in my face.”
#COVID-19#Illinois#MaryMiller
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
Mary Miller in the news
COVID follies
COVID follies
In Illinois’s Region 6, things are bad. And yet — a nearby restaurant is offering an indoor Thanksgiving buffet.
#COVID-19#Illinois
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
COVID follies
Sociopathy unmasked
Sociopathy unmasked
My little corner of Illinois is a coronavirus hotspot, thanks to freedom-loving asshats of all shapes and sizes.
#Illinois#COVID-19
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
Sociopathy unmasked