Yes.

Excerpt:

Texas doesn’t have statewide guidelines for critical care and triage, which means that caregivers are left to their own local organizing. But tough times like the ones brought on by low vaccination rates and the delta variant require a re-examination of priors. This fourth wave of Covid hospitalizations differs from all the others, because almost everyone who is severely ill is also unvaccinated. In Texas, more than 12,800 people are in the hospital because of Covid-19, and between 93 and 98 percent of them are unvaccinated.

It’s tempting to blame this wave not on the virus but on the people who didn’t get their shots. “This has been bubbling up—this anger, this frustration, this fear, this worry. Every day, we’re seeing the ascent of the curve. Now it’s the steepest it’s ever been,” Fine says. “So I and the other leaders of the task force, we decided, you know, these numbers are not looking good. These questions are coming up."

  • LeninWalksTheWorld [any]
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    No. I know some libs irl who are getting so excited over denying healthcare to people it's disgusting. The answer to a overburned medical system is not to let some paients die, it's to increase capacity. Get the national guard out there or something instead.

    • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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      I mean we should obviously be doing everything we can to expand capacity, but my understanding is that if anything it's going to shrink. Go read some threads on /r/nursing, they're burning the fuck out.

      If your capacity to provide care isn't enough after doing everything you can to expand it you have to decide who to help first.

    • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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      3 vuotta sitten

      Get the national guard out there or something instead.

      That's already happening in certain areas of the USA. The thing is increasing capacity can only be done so much. Nurses take years to train, and to operate specialist medical equipment. The solution is not expanding non existent capacity, it's lockdowns until the reproduction number of Covid 19 is less than 1, with government support. And mandatory vaccination. It takes years to train someone to be an ICU nurse, but any old troop can hand out food packages like they did in China. But capitalists and Americans don't want that because it's "authoritarian" and individualism mindset.

        • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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          Texas Governor Abbot cut off funds to hire travel nurses apparently.

          Is cruelty just the point of American fascism at this point? It's like ISIS tier shit now

            • OgdenTO [he/him]
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              3 vuotta sitten

              It certainly seems that way, but why? Whats the end goal of culling mainly the poor or those with poor access to healthcare?

              • Haste_Hall [he/him]
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                You see that map of death penalties by state here on hexbear today? You see Texas on that map? I don't know exactly what the reason is, but it's the same for both of these things.

                Texas just likes killing.

                Krombopolous Texas

                • OgdenTO [he/him]
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                  3 vuotta sitten

                  Death penalties are about punishing the poor and non-white who step out of line, to be an example. It's a fear tactic.

                  Letting poor people die from lack of treatment just creates disconnection and reduces trust in the healthcare systems.

                  Is the point maybe to revamp the healthcare system in an even more privatized way? Is that even possible?

                  I agree with you this is what's happening, I'm just trying to get to the bottom of why.

    • Dirtbag [they/them]
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      I'm not getting excited. I'm frustrated and pissed we're at the point this even has to be a conversation. This is "crumbling empire" level of incompetent.