City hosting Trump rally in Alabama declares COVID-19 emergency

[hookaleft]

Cullman, Ala., on Thursday declared a COVID-19-related state of emergency ahead of a scheduled Alabama GOP rally featuring former President Trump on Saturday as Alabama struggles with a surge in new infections and a shortage of hospital beds.

The state of emergency declaration allows the city to provide additional resources for the rally, a request that was made by the chief operating office of Cullman Regional Medical Center, which is experiencing overcrowding amid a spike in coronavirus-related hospitalizations.

Alabama saw 3,890 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, with a seven-day moving average of about 3,000 new infections, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Covid Data Tracker. Cullman Regional’s latest update on Wednesday showed that the hospital was treating 56 coronavirus patients, including 12 people who are on ventilators.


The Alabama Hospital Association also revealed on Wednesday that the state has run out of intensive care unit beds, reporting a 29-bed deficit.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/568730-city-hosting-trumps-rally-in-alabama-declares-covid-19-emergency

[orwell]

1. Not the onion...

...unfortunately.

Land o' morons...

[RKP5637]

2. Yep! An epicenter for Idiocracy!!! n/t

[Hugh_Lebowski]

3. Muhahahahaha ... by all means, carry on with your idiot rally (nt)

[Botany]

4. This will be a herd thinning event like no other.

Older and in some case obese people, in a farm field in Alabama in August, 80 to 90 degree + heat,
lots of people without masks, other preexisting conditions (blood pressure, heart problems, diabetes,
and other "stuff&quot , low vaccination rates, good chance of a thunderstorm, 10,000 + people packed in
tight, a wicked C-19 rate in the area too, and no ICU beds in the entire state.

[2naSalit]

8. And humid as hell...

Lots of ready made droplets for the virus to cling to as they sweat and huff and puff their chants and slogans. May this be the end of them.

[Botany]

10. Bingo!

Let those water molecules hang in the air @ 80% + humidity as nice resting spot for the virus.

I hope Trump has 'em chant "lock her up" as they are all cheek to jowl. Science rules.

I have given up caring because if they want to read facebook vs the knowledge of Dr. Fauci let 'em die.

[2naSalit]

12. Yeah...

I'm all out of fucks to give for those clowns.

[Botany]

13. It is like the passengers of the Titanic got to watch the movie "The Titanic" in 1912 and still ...

... got on the ship. Trump is into killing these dumb asses because it makes him feel good to be in
front of a crowd of cheering simpletons.

Do not give 'em any health care outside of palliative care, pain killers, food and water and a wall tent in a field.

[Champp]

5. Suicide by Trump. Go to worship him, catch the Republican plague

Such a deal.

[2naSalit]

9. As I have said before...

D&*%$d Jonestown T#^%p. Covid is his koolaide.

[Initech]

6. What could go wrong?

[Elwood P Dowd]

7. Here is an example at one hospital in Alabama.

Half the people down here don't believe in vaccines, masks or even their own doctors. All their medical advice comes from Fox News, repuke talk radio, and Facebook.

[ZonkerHarris]

11. I hope TFG gets a HUUUUUGE crowd on Saturday