"There are no beds. In Middle Tennessee right now it is impossible to find an empty, staffed ICU..."

[Nevilledog]

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Phil Williams
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BREAKING FROM TENNESSEE: "There are no beds. In Middle Tennessee right now it is impossible to find an empty, staffed ICU, ER, or med/surg bed," says chief medical officer for Sumner Regional Medical Center in Gallatin. #COVID19
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7:31 PM · Aug 12, 2021

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[dweller]

1. Set up triage

in the state Capitol building …


✌🏻

[exboyfil]

2. Got your vaccine card

You are the first in line and guaranteed a bed. The least critical ICU patient without a card gets moved if necessary to make space.

[SheltieLover]

3. +1,000!

[SheltieLover]

4. Just saw headline: memphis ambulance response time 1.5 hrs!

This is a very small metro area.

Also, treatment / admission in excess of 24 fucking hours.

Why in the actual hell are hospitals being clogged with anti vaxers?

[GoodRaisin]

6. Guess they will have to call that dumb

senator they elected.

[SheltieLover]

8. Gawd... which one?

Both are qpuke pieces of shit.

[GoodRaisin]

11. I was referring to Blackburn.

A walking right wing rhetoric doll.

[Corgigal]

5. Is Knoxville considered middle Tennessee?

My hubby doctor is there, I really don’t think about where the hospital is regionally.

[SheltieLover]

9. No. North East TN

Middle TN is Nashville. Mid-South is Memphis.

[Corgigal]

13. Thank you.

[SheltieLover]

15. Yw!

Middle TN has Vanderbilt, which is huge for this bassackwards red hellhole state.

I believe they turned parking garage into overflow hospital a year ago.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

7. WTH. Why isn't the federal govt stepping in?

[SheltieLover]

12. The real question is whether shitbag putin is happy yet?

Nurses & docs are walking off jobs in exhaustion & disgust.

Why the hell are anti vax / anti science folks not being relegated to field hospitals on palliative care?

[Sgent]

18. IDK

what the federal government can do. Every hospital in the deep south + FL + TX is over capacity, there may not be enough spare capacity in other states unless they start canceling procedures to free up nurses and doctors.

[Mariana]

22. What do you think the federal government should do? nt.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

25. Makeshift covid hospitals. Where's that ship they

Retrofitted and brought to NY? Pull it into mobile bay.

Something.

[Mariana]

26. Don't the governors have to request such assistance?

As far as I know, the governors of the most affected states haven't done so.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

36. So What's your idea?

[Mariana]

37. I don't have one.

I have no idea how to convince those states' governors, legislators, local officials, school boards, community leaders, preachers, etc. etc. etc. to do what's right. I also have no idea how to convince the majority of the residents (those who refuse to get vaccinated) to behave in a rational manner and get their damn shots.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

38. Great

[Mariana]

39. Believe me, I wish I did know.

My mother (vaccinated) can't get a simple, outpatient surgery because all the hospitals in her part of Florida are stuffed with unvaccinated Covid patients. Her condition isn't life-threatening, you see. It's just extremely painful and debilitating, so she has to wait for who knows how long. Hopefully, it won't get worse and cause permanent damage in the meantime.

[EarthFirst]

45. Even if their Governors were to request federal assistance...

The “COVID Camps” mentality is strong with this demographic.

They’d just assume die in the streets before being sent of to the ‘internment camps”

It’s quite a baffling scenario.

[Initech]

10. Guess we can expect high school football stadiums to be turned into field hospitals soon.

Thanks anti-vaxxers, I hope you're happy and sleep easier at night.

[SheltieLover]

14. Precisely where willfully unvaxed should be sent!

1.5 hr ambulance response time Memphis & 24 hrs + for ER treatment!



MS turning parking garage into overflow hospital.



Ps - They just started stuffing kids back into schools like sardines this past Monday...

[wnylib]

17. If I had school age children,

I would keep them home. In just 3 weeks, my county went from low to moderate to substantial in the CDC infection rate categories. Still no word on local school precaution plans. Less than 50% of the local population is vaccinated, so it will get worse.

[SheltieLover]

19. Same here, Wyn

I saw a neighbor lady walking down to meet the bus, so I asked if she'd sent her kids back to school amidst delta.

Her answer: "Well, I didn't have a choice. There is no virtual option this year."

Not sure what her medical issue is, but she's told me she has "zero" immune system.

Never wears a mask...

Of course I offered to help her find a quality online school option, but she declined.

Daily cases here have gone from 20ish to 40ish a couple of weeks ago to now as high as 700 daily.

And, of coursep, idiot TN is 30-something % vaxed!

[wnylib]

23. Wow. That's a big jump all right.

We went from 0 to a few days in a row of 5 each day to 15 in one day. Then last weekend we jumped to 53 new cases, 5 hospitalizations, and one death just over the weekend. Now it's 15 to 20 new cases daily. It's only been 3 weeks so far.

But, since getting into the substantial category, there are more people wearing masks now. Not a lot, but I am seeing an increase since the county health director went online and on air to announce our status and recommend masks. I also noticed a slight uptick in vaccinations in the past month.

[SheltieLover]

28. Glad people are masking again! And vaxing!

I noticed many more masks yesterdat but not all Kroger employees were masked!

I saw the kids & parents walk to school bus this morning. 1 kid had mask on. No adults were masked. Tgey all stood in close proximity chatting, awaiting the bus.

Do people not read?

[wnylib]

29. I went to the library yesterday.

Before the vaccines, they were very strict about masks and distancing. When masks became optional, all of the library visitors stopped wearing them. Employees had to show proof of vaccination to stop wearing masks. That left only two of them masked.

Yesterday, about half of the vaccinated employees wore masks. I saw several visitors besides myself wearing them. I guess people who go to libraries actually do read up on what's going on.

But in stores, the vast majority of customers and employees around here do not wear them.

[monkeyman1]

16. TO ANTIVA'S -- THIS SHIT WILL HUNT YOU DOWN !! ODD'S ARE AGAINST YOU !!!

[DFW]

20. And on their deathbed, with their dying breath

So incredibly many of these people will praise the Republicans whose votes put them there.

“Saint Peter don’t you call me, ‘cause I can’t go
I still want to watch Sean Hannity’s show.”

[Docreed2003]

21. Absolutely 100% accurate

This is a disaster currently in the Nashville area. The ramifications go far beyond Covid care. This bed crunch is affecting trauma, cardiac critical care, transplant patients, and on and on like ripples on waves. People are dying, from Covid, yes, but also from lack of bed space and manpower. Meanwhile our state representatives want to punish school boards and school districts who enact mask mandates

[Lars39]

30. I would value your advice regarding travel and risk...

Offspring want to travel down by car from Chicago land to the ‘ville area in article tomorrow…would you advise against it?
My gut is telling me it is not a good thing because of risk of travel and our pitifully low vax rate here, even though they are both fully vaxxed.

[Docreed2003]

31. Personally, I'd hold on travel

I think that's the safest thing right now. If they do travel, I would maintain masks, social distancing, and hand washing, all of which I'm sure is self explanatory. Hope everything turns out well

[Lars39]

33. Thank you!

I’ve been keeping them updated on the situation here, but they tend to think they are invincible. Youth…
Thanks

[Docreed2003]

34. You're very welcome!

[Marthe48]

24. Maybe more people would get a shot

If the vaccine wasn't as available.

When the vaccine was first available, people were frantically trying to locate a dose. Now, as it is plentiful, it isn't attractive. I'm thinking it is like Cabbage Patch Dolls, or Rubik's Cube. They got noticed, they were sought after, then makers flooded the market.

So 'create' a shortage. The shots would still be available, but start reports that the U.S. is running out, and have places that give shots act like they are having trouble fitting people in for appt.

Just an idea.

[LisaL]

32. I don't think it has anything to do with vaccine being plentiful.

People who wanted to vaccinate did. Now we are left with people who don't want to vaccinate. We always knew a large proportion of people will refuse to vaccinate. We are pretty much down to those people.

[Marthe48]

41. Just saying sometimes people want something they can't get

I knew people who stood in line all night to get Tickle me Elmo and other hot items. We drove 50 miles to get Rubik's Cubes. I wouldn't do that now, but if other people are trying to keep up with the Joneses, or want status, scarcity might entice laggards to do something they might not otherwise do.

[KentuckyWoman]

27. Well written

[musette_sf]

35. My cousin-in-law's mother is on a vent in a Nashville area ER.

There are no ICU beds available. Oxygen levels very low from COPD so they put her on a vent. Also suffering from CHF. COVID test is negative.

Visitors not permitted in the hospital.

My CIL is an anti-vaxxer, and though I feel for him and his pain over his mom's desperate health crisis, he keeps trying to blame her COVID vaccination for it. This is despite the fact that she is in her late 80s and was diagnosed pre-COVID with COPD.

This is the kind of crap that feeds crazy RWNJ hypotheses that "the vax killed mama". I'm angry and sad in equal measures.

[Mariana]

43. My mother has had people say that to her about my father.

Yes, he declined rapidly and died after he had his vaccine - because he had cancer, which had been running wild in his body long before he got the vaccine.

[Lars39]

40. Vanderbilt hospital and emergency department 'completely full'

https://www.wsmv.com/news/vanderbilt-hospital-and-emergency-department-completely-full/article_3f610f2c-fc62-11eb-86e6-d7a10b194e38.html?block_id=994460

[Docreed2003]

42. For an update

One of our county commissioners just posted on Facebook that he thinks the bed situation at SRMC is fake. That's the level of idiocy we're dealing with here

[Mariana]

44. Perhaps the county commissioner should be invited to see for himself.

I understand that may be difficult or impossible because of patient privacy concerns.