I don’t know how many more deaths have to be written about or Go Fund Me pages established before these people wake up, but here is hands down the worst news story I have read and it’s coming out of Galveston, Texas, surprise, surprise. A 4-year-old girl died four hours after she began exhibiting COVID-19 symptoms, i.e., a fever. It’s been noted that the Delta variant is particularly lethal in children. Daily Beast:

The rambunctious 4-year-old passed away just one day after her mother, brother, and 5-month-old sister learned they were infected. The family is currently quarantined at home.

The Galveston County Health Department confirmed that a young girl died of COVID-19 died on Tuesday morning, calling it “the first in someone 10 and younger” in the county. […]

As the family holes up in their home, financial realities have begun to seep in. Harwood started a GoFundMe page to help pay for Kali’s funeral and medical expenses. So far, they’ve raised $16,568 of their $20,000 goal. In the page’s description box, Harwood writes that Kali’s “heart was too pure for this cruel world” and describes how the family is collectively “broken and lost” while attempting to navigate their grief.

The donation page is filled with comments sending their best to the family. “Pro-Vax or Anti-Vax, no one should lose their child at such a young age. I am deeply sorry for your loss,” wrote Rene Ureta.

Kali’s tragic death comes amid a massive surge of the delta variant, which has plagued young children at rates far higher than expected. According to the Texas Department of State Health Services, as of Sep. 10, at least 2,384 children have contracted COVID-19 in the state.

We pause and mourn our fallen fellow Americans who perished in the 9/11 attack on New York City. Approximately 3,900 died that day. We have lost hundreds of thousands of Americans to COVID-19 and the true tragedy is how preventable it was.

Here’s another story depicting the tragedy and abject stupidity of allowing this virus to get out of control. A 74-year-old man died after trying to find an ICU bed in 43 hospitals in three states.

An Alabama man just days away from his 74th birthday died last week after 43 hospitals in three states couldn’t accept him due to overfilled ICUs. Now his family is encouraging people to get vaccinated. Ray Martin DeMonia suffered a cardiac event last week, and after his family tried to get him a bed at a variety of hospitals, staff at an Alabama hospital managed to find him a one at a Mississippi hospital—almost 200 miles from his home. “In honor of Ray, please get vaccinated if you have not, in an effort to free up resources for non-COVID related emergencies,” his family wrote in his obituary. “He would not want any other family to go through what his did.”

In Alabama, there were 60 more patients than there were ICUs as of Thursday. Over half were positive with COVID-19, according to USA Today—a deadly example of the Delta variant’s rise.

It is horrifying that a global pandemic has become a right-wing political issue in this country. I happened to be in the doctor’s office a few days ago and the intake person asked me in a casual tone if I “was interested in COVID vaccinations.” I nearly laughed in her face. Instead I told her I have been fully vaccinated since May. Now I don’t blame this young woman one iota. She was undoubtedly trained to frame the question in that fashion, rather than to frame it in the proper way, which would be, “you have had your COVID shots, right? Or do we need to do that immediately?”

I live in a certain amount of apprehension about the coronavirus and its impact on hospitals, even though I don’t live in a state where things are out of control. Nevada has a Democratic governor and people obey the rules here, at least where I am. When I moved here, it was mask time. Then it was announced that the masks could come off. Then the Delta variant started and the masks came back on. I’m encouraged that I see this level of sanity around me. That said, this is not a good time to have a heart attack or a stroke and need an ICU.

Plus, it was a well known fact that hospitals were places where a sick person could catch an infection, before the coronavirus hit. Point being, I’ve arranged to do as many out patient tasks as I can at medical office buildings rather than at the local hospital because who wants to risk COVID when getting a simple x-ray, like I did the other day?

Believe me, I am thankful for sane governance in this state. The Republicans here are nuts. There is a move afoot to split the state in two. If you haven’t heard that one, the right-wingers would take the entire state north of Clark County and that would be North Nevada, and us libs would get the southern triangle of the state, South Nevada. Which works for me, this is the economic engine right here. Nevada has a one horse economy and I’m sitting eight miles from it, it’s called The Strip.

It’s a tragedy beyond words that COVID became politicized at all, much less to the psychotic level that it has, with conspiracy theory about chip implants, and comparisons to Nazi Germany. This is not America, this is alt-America. Maybe the next step will be for us to identify as such, “which are you, American or alt-American?” It’s a concept straight out of dystopian sci fi but if you look around you, it makes sense to ask. That’s the horror of it.

 

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5 COMMENTS

  1. I sort of feel the family should be prosecuted for child abuse. That’s a difficult issue owing to several ethical issues. Still…it’s really upsetting to see this child,pay the price for the wrongdoing of people around her.

  2. It’s all working to plan. So much is impacted by propagandizing anti-vaccine, anti-mask and the fucking big lie. It continues unabated and the cultic have fallen for it hook, line and sinker. They believe this is for freedom, little knowing Putin, et al are enjoying every fucking death – no matter the age. A weak America is just that – weak and the job they’ve been doing has worked. Nicole Wallace has exposed the propaganda – when are the Dems going to fight back HARD?!

  3. This is beyond obscene. Why are vaccinated people dying from non-covid related illness just so ICU’s can house unvaccinated idiots? DO HOSPITALS KNOW WHAT TRIAGE IS? If so, why aren’t they A) doing it and B) turning more unvaccinated Covidiots away? When you take heroin and O.D. and the paramedics or whoever is first on the scene do not have that nose stuff (sorry, not a heroin addict) to revive you, there are consequences for your actions one of which might likely be that you die. I can see no difference between these two groups except for the fact the heroin user might be one because of Perdue Pharma so therefore maybe deserves a bit of a break. Point is, hospitals should be reserving at least 50% of its beds/ICU’s for non-covid patients. More would be better.

    The unvaccinated by and large chose to be that way. We as a society need to choose to make them face the consequences of their actions. I don’t know about nowadays, but back in my younger years we were taught actions have consequences. WELL?

    • I’m a firm believer in this kind of solution, set up a large tent out in the nearest vacant lot, with enough cots and pillow man pillows to fill it wall-to-wall … everyone gets a clip list on their cot, name/ address/ family phone number … check box by not vaccinated, personal choice … and a case number/scan code for the computer entry wand in the nurses/orderlies’ hand …

      Then, have lots of water bottles to hand out when they can still ask for them …

      Last entry line TOD – DATE and a check box for ready for disposal … family notified …

      Simple treatment option for non vaccine believers, simple stethoscope test along with finding pulse or not, of course all orderlies/nurses and doctors need the best masks/respirators, along with their normal PPS …

      A big sign by the entrance doors to the hospital, not accepting non-vaccinated, by choice, patients for treatments, alternative bed rest available … check in at air lock tunnel at south corner of parking lot … you or your guardian will need to sign a release there on your way in …

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