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With morgues brimming, Texas and Arizona turn to refrigerator trucks:
Officials in Texas and Arizona have requested refrigerated trucks to hold the dead as hospitals and morgues become overwhelmed by victims of the raging COVID-19 pandemic.
"In the hospital, there are only so many places to put bodies," Ken Davis, chief medical officer of Christus Santa Rosa Health System in the San Antonio area, said in a briefing this week. "We're out of space, and our funeral homes are out of space, and we need those beds. So, when someone dies, we need to quickly turn that bed over.
"It's a hard thing to talk about," Davis added. "People's loved ones are dying."
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QOTD:
"My life is a soap opera, but who gets the movie rights?"
(Score: 5, Touché) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday July 18 2020, @12:29AM (18 children)
aRe We SiCk Of WiNnInG yEt GuYs?!
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2020, @12:49AM
I am not tired of winning. Death to America!
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Saturday July 18 2020, @02:20AM (4 children)
Whom are you asking?
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2020, @02:27AM (3 children)
If you can't figure that one out you should probably go take a nap.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Saturday July 18 2020, @02:32AM (2 children)
:-) Humor me...
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2020, @06:14AM (1 child)
Ok, you are a joke ;)
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Saturday July 18 2020, @06:18AM
ho hum... guess you don't know either
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 3, Funny) by Gaaark on Saturday July 18 2020, @02:36AM (5 children)
Make
America
Graveyard
America
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 3, Insightful) by helel on Saturday July 18 2020, @04:04AM (1 child)
I feel like Make America Graveyard Again works better and it's not like there aren't a plethora of events, even plagues, that work for the callback.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2020, @04:10PM
Make America Graveyard Already works even better.
(Score: 2) by TheGratefulNet on Saturday July 18 2020, @05:01PM (2 children)
MAKE
ADDITIONAL
GRAVES,
AMERICA
that works a bit better.
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Sunday July 19 2020, @01:20PM
Yup! Nice.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Monday July 20 2020, @02:06AM
If I quote you, do you want to be credited/ If so, how?
(Score: 2) by Opportunist on Saturday July 18 2020, @08:23AM
Oh yeah, we're down with the sickness.
(Score: 2) by digitalaudiorock on Saturday July 18 2020, @12:20PM
Nope. Now it's time to open up all the schools! Preferably with no masks!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2020, @05:59PM (3 children)
Aren't you sick of it yet? We already are.
If you are a mayor and forbid funerals in your city, the morgues will overflow in time. And the liars will come running.
Texas. 29 mil population. TFA: "The state has reported over 3,400 deaths so far."
http://healthdata.dshs.texas.gov/dashboard/births-and-deaths/deaths-all-ages [texas.gov]
2015 (no newer data is reported on the site, for some reason): "Total number of deaths: 189,166"
Is being totally anumerate a hard requirement for a Dem, or what? You cannot reasonably expect your readers all not able to count... can you?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2020, @06:21PM
Yeah, these Commentards might not know that San Antonio is Bolshevik Scum Central and this story is more propaganda.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2020, @07:17PM (1 child)
You can scream loudly, smash stuff and deplatform everyone who does not agree. 24 hour support from mainstream media. And then 2+2 can equal 5.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Monday July 20 2020, @02:10AM
So 5 is now the number formerly known as 4.
What name will we use now for the number formerly known as 5?
-- hendrik