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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGovernor Rejects State Lockdown: 'Mississippi's Never Going to Be China'
https://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2020/mar/23/governor-rejects-state-lockdown-covid-19-mississip/It is my goal to make sure we make good, solid decisions based on experts, the governor said in an afternoon Facebook Live address, where he took questions from Mississippi residents. No one at the State Department of Health has recommended that we have a statewide shelter-in-place order," Reeves added.
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One Mississippian asked the governor why the state was not emulating China, the first country to detect COVID-19 and the first to control the spread of the virus. Mississippi's never going to be China. Mississippi's never going to be North Korea, Reeves responded. He added that when looking at the numbers Chinas putting out, claiming that they have no new cases over a period of timeIm not entirely sure we can trust that data.
Reeves skepticism of Chinas control of the COVID-19 pandemic is incorrect, however. In areas across China most heavily affected by the novel coronavirus, the extensive lockdown, testing and case isolation protocols have eliminated the spread of the virus to the degree that the imminent danger for these areas is not community spread, but reinfection from travelers returning from abroad. Dr. Bruce Aylward, World Health Organization senior advisor, explains the dedication of the Chinese model. "Theyre mobilized, like in a war, and its fear of the virus that was driving them. They really saw themselves as on the front lines of protecting the rest of China. And the world," he said.
Ladies and gentlemen, the state where I was born and where most of my elderly relatives live.
Afromania
(2,768 posts)underpants
(182,736 posts)Just saying
zackymilly
(2,375 posts)Just sayin'
Recursion
(56,582 posts)The food is pretty much the one benefit of living there
underpants
(182,736 posts)onecaliberal
(32,813 posts)Initech
(100,059 posts)lpbk2713
(42,751 posts)or he wants to thin out his state's population.
Maybe a little of both.
tblue37
(65,273 posts)dem4decades
(11,282 posts)tblue37
(65,273 posts)Last edited Tue Mar 24, 2020, 06:18 PM - Edit history (1)
I was raised in a Republican family with a history of military service. We lived on Air Force bases until I was 13, and then in a conservative Republican area in northeastern Pennsylvania where Dad was born and raised, but I still broke away.
dem4decades
(11,282 posts)BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)Yavin4
(35,432 posts)They may infect other people.
pat_k
(9,313 posts)... warned that things will get very dire in Mississippi very quickly.
Unfortunately, I'm unable to find the link at the moment, but the gist was that their health care system has become an even greater shambles since rejecting subsidy for expansion of medicaid.
The system was overwhelmed by last flu season. If they couldn't handle that, they are utterly unequipped to face the current crisis. Particularly given that the percentage of vulnerable people with health problems and vulnerable poor are apparently higher than any other state.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)They have six ICU beds.
Six.
For fifty-nine thousand people.
pat_k
(9,313 posts)Skidmore
(37,364 posts)OnDoutside
(19,952 posts)kskiska
(27,045 posts)When I lived in NOLA there was a saying, "Thank God for Mississippi," meaning that Mississippi was always at the bottom of any list, though Louisiana wasn't far behind.
Snarkoleptic
(5,997 posts)DBoon
(22,353 posts)Mississippi?
procon
(15,805 posts)There are still a few bugs to work out, like it seems targeted to affect mostly Republicans which seems kinda self defeating to me.
Still, hope it works for 'em.
Mopar151
(9,978 posts)Mississippi is going to be clobbered!
Squinch
(50,935 posts)yonder
(9,663 posts)...or S. Korea
...or Japan
...or Hong Kong
...or Norway
or __________
and once this is under control it may not be Mississippi again either
nolabear
(41,959 posts)They believe this thing is bad. And one sister is really close to New Orleans, which is in a world of hurt. Which is its legacy. ☹️
Freethinker65
(10,009 posts)Crunchy Frog
(26,579 posts)pansypoo53219
(20,968 posts)GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Jackson, the state capital is a sad sack of a city.
The rural areas are, frankly close to 3rd world and without federal monetary inputs truly would be.
While their low density will weigh in their favor, but it wont take much at all to overwhelm their crappy healthcare system.