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That's the reports out of Houston; total available beds for Covid being reduced so the % occupied remains elevated.  Why would hospitals *necessarily* fight this, given tremendous political pressure by one of their biggest customers and most powerful overseers?

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Post a link.

I think your confusing something.  The only way the officials could monkey with something to elevate the number to allow them to override what the governor  said would be to eliminate licensed beds.  This Would require each hospital to adjust their license with the state and the state to process that change.  That can’t be done by a local judge.   Now what you will see is the local officials trying to play games with how they will run a press conference and try to make the unofficial numbers look high by saying COVID units are at max capacity without stating that the local facilities chose to reduce the beds that are  linked to their COVID units because of a low census.   When ever you see numbers you need to look at total overall bed count not COVID unit bed count as that is what matters with what the governor ordered.

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I heard Clay Jenkins from Dallas was going to pull this, and then he found he could not. Bit of egg on his face, someone in his office does not like him.

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And a goodly portion has contracted & recovered from the virus, which is the same thing as far as contagiousness.

We're done.  It's over.

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From MIT  https://medical.mit.edu/covid-19-updates/2020/12/can-someone-who-recovered-spread-COVID19

From what we know of other viruses, most experts think it’s likely that most people who recover from COVID-19 have some level of immunity for some period of time. But we don’t know how much immunity they have or how long it lasts. A recent study of a different type of coronavirus, the common cold, found that people were often reinfected within 12 months.

So Far, of 29 Million Texas, Only about 3.2 million Texans have received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine, or 11.6% of the state, according to state health data.

and of 29 Million Texas only about 1.5 million Texans are fully vaccinated (only 5.17%)

I'd love for COVID to be nothing more than a bad memory in the rear view mirror of life and for a return to life as it was PRE-COVID.  

But I think that Governor Abbott has pulled the 'gear up' too handle early before we are at V2 / VLO (Lift off speed) in our recovery.

I hope I'm wrong and that people will continue to protect themselves & others until widespread immunization produces sufficient critical mass for "herd immunity" to finally take hold (about 80% of the Population) but I think the "Happy Thoughts will Somehow Magically Become Reality" may be a tad bit ...   ...    ...  premature.

I was in a major Hospital today this morning.  EVERY single Doctor or Nurse I spoke with said (politely or not so politely) that it was not Medically prudent because vaccination has just begun, not just completed.


Sadly I think we are still far from "done" enough to declare 'Victory' and put up the banners.

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Have no idea what she had.  What did her labs say? How was the test run knowing she had a vaccine?  How long after her second dose did she become sick?  What vaccine did she get?  

The jokes usually on people that don’t understand correlation, causation,  Anecdotes or how medicine works.

But hey I know a guy that died in a car wreck after he drank a coke.  Maybe that not driving while drunk is a dumb law as he died anyways.

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Meanwhile, my dad;
-Felt funny for a day, he thinks
-Had a biopsy for a possible skull tumor causing severe headaches delayed for a month because he tested positive for the illness he had apparently caught a month earlier
-Got bumped up on the vaccine priority list *because* he had recovered from Covid (tell me that makes any sense at all) and was told he had to get it to receive medical care
-Had an ENT do an 'off the books/after hours' examination in violation of normal protocols because he was afraid my dad could be dying during all these delays (thankfully some non-invasive intervention seems to have helped him recover on his own, so far, turns out it was a serious infection & he's slowly beating it)
-Got the first shot, felt funny
-Got the second shot, laid the fuck out for three days, still sore/tired a week later
-Finally scheduled for biopsy surgery in several weeks, but maybe not since he got lucky & the serious infection appears to be waning.

So basically he was denied medical care for a serious condition for no reason, and given a vaccine in short supply/extreme demand for no reason, and was lucky enough to pull through on his own strength in the end.  Oh, and nothing but Tylenol for his severe migraines all the while, becuz war on opiates (nevermind it's fucking rough on an older man's liver)

And this is a fairly wealthy man with good health insurance, mind you.

We're diving headlong into the insane inefficiency and waste of a tyrannical socialist system, and the fucking Doomers are cheering how much their hair is being blown back by the ride.

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My uncle needed double bypass like yesterday but tested positive and had to wait 10 days before his surgery. Meanwhile wasn't able to leave the hospital because he could die at any minute from a heart attack.

Felt completely fine other than you know the whole mild cardiac arrest thing...

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This is what a large amount of people in the medical field are complaining about.  Delayed medical care.  

They place a ballon pump while he is waiting to help him out?  Or just being monitored?

I wish him the best

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He had the surgery 2 days before the snow hit and Tyler medical district lost water to the boilers. He is doing fine now but the post surgery in a hospital that had no power, no water, it was rough.

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That is bad to hear, but don’t the hospitals in Texas have large generator sets that can power the hospital for days?

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That is bad to hear, but don’t the hospitals in Texas have large generator sets that can power the hospital for days?

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Here's my question... The EO changes almost nothing regarding masks except local jurisdictions are not allowed to implement their own mask mandates. However, businesses can still do what they want (fine by me) and schools are still allowed to require masks. This is the one that bothers me. How are school districts and/or the TEA (Texas Education Agency) not considered "jurisdictions" as defined in the EO? TEA is a .gov entity and should be handled the same as any other local government agency as defined in the EO! Anyone have any direct insight into this part?

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Were the parents given detention?

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That is bad to hear, but don’t the hospitals in Texas have large generator sets that can power the hospital for days?