Yet another Republican-created crisis;
yet another demand that the rest of America bail them out
the state of Idaho's near-complete incompetence at dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in adjacent Washington State hospitals having to pick up the slack.
Northern Idaho hospitals are now so inundated with patients that crisis rationing of health care was announced last week.
In Washington, the new flood of Idaho pandemic patients is resulting in postponed brain cancer surgeries and overwhelmed emergency rooms.
Republican Idaho Gov. Brad Little's clownish pandemic incompetence is flat-out killing people, and not all of them are in Idaho.
It's yet another case of a red-state Republican government completely botching—on purpose—the response to a public crisis
while leaving it to the public and to nearby better-run governments to clean up the wreckage
he steadfastly declares his continued determination to do little to nothing to respond to the medical now-crisis in his state.
Idaho's 40% vaccination rate is among the nation's lowest,
plan appears to be ...
”If we claim it's patriotic not to try, then nobody can blame us for the staggering numbers of deaths.”
Not only do the state's conservative operators feel proud about doing absolutely nothing of note to tamp down an infection rate that has state hospitals in crisis,
they continue to take steps to ensure nobody else is allowed to mitigate the damage either.
https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2021/9/13/2052023/-Idaho-Republicans-sent-their-state-into-pandemic-crisis-Now-it-s-spreading-over-state-borders