OMG !

[KentuckyWoman]

My cousin in Texas. Her granddaughter is a nurse in Austin Texas. I don't know what hospital. They were told yesterday they cannot wear scrubs have ID showing coming into the building, change after getting there, and change out before leaving. If come in or go out at night you must go with security. They were given a number to call if they come in after dark.

Apparently enough workers have been threatened over the shortage of bed space and resources that there is fear something bad will happen.

These people won't vax. They won't mask. When they get sick they run for the hospital and when there is not enough staff, beds, and other resources to put them at the front of the line they start threatening the very people they want help from?

My God ...

[applegrove]

1. .

[dweller]

2. And they open carry now

Wonder if they’ll bring their guns to force entrance
🤔


✌🏻

[Budi]

5. Storm the hospital!! "Stop The ...um..."

Where ARE you Gov Abbott!?
Meanwhile he's got the Guard patrolling the fake fking Wall at the border!

[StClone]

7. Shoot your way in to the ER...it is Texas after all

Hold the Drs. hostage as they treat you. I can see it.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

48. They've got a Second Amendment Solution to COVID. Just kill everyone who's trying to treat sick

people and the pandemic won't be so bad. Hopefully they won't follow TFG's lead when he said, "We're testing too much. If we tested less we'd have fewer cases."

[roamer65]

3. It's all a plot not to let Dump get re-selected.

Gonna get a LOT worse when they go to field hospitals with cots in parking garages and tents.

[brer cat]

4. It gets crazier by the day.

I hope your cousin's granddaughter stays safe.

[aeromanKC]

6. Domestic Terrorists

[SergeStorms]

23. We need some domestic terrorist laws.....

in the books. As of now, there are no domestic terrorist laws in the books in this country. Unbelievable, right?

This shit has to stop. They're getting away with murder - literally - because no one ever figured a certain sub-set of Americans would ever sink this low.

Of course no one ever figured a low-life piece of shit like MF45 would ever be "selected" president, and that he'd give every racist, selfish, demented piece of white trash permission to act on their worst instincts.

Come on, Justice. Where are you? How long are you going to allow this shit to go on?

[smirkymonkey]

27. +1000

[MustLoveBeagles]

50. + Infinity

[monkeyman1]

9. when !

when caught , try them as terrorist & quit the fucking plea deal's ! Taliban do not give plea deal's ! why should we ? and don't give me this crap about being civilized !

[I_UndergroundPanther]

10. 1/3 of our population

Are dark triad.

We know who these monsters are. Republican entitled vicious fascist thugs desperate to avoid responsibility while being abusers.

What can we do to control these R assholes?

If they keep pushing ,I have a feeling it won't end well...for them.

I hope everyone who works in a hospital stays safe

[flying_wahini]

33. They are 'controlling' it. By dying or getting sick.

Darwin would be pleased.

[NurseJackie]

38. Don't forget the Nazis.

[alittlelark]

11. I Need to Wake Up from this Nightmare

[Delphinus]

28. You said it!

I'm reading a book right now that briefly tells of the myth of the seven brothers of Ephesus - they go to sleep terrified, running for their lives, and wake up hundreds of years later, safe.

I can't tell you how often I would like to just crawl into a hole and cover up. Or hide under a desk or in a closet - this shit just keeps getting worse.

[Rhiannon12866]

12. They refuse medical advice - getting the vaccine and masking up - yet they run for the hospital

When they get sick... I so sorry that the very people who are exhausted from helping those who refuse to help themselves are now in danger.

[IronLionZion]

13. Using violent intimidation against civilians because of a political agenda isn't terrorism

if they're white

sarcasm tag intentionally left out.

People have committed violence against Asian-Americans, police officers, security guards, healthcare workers, and many more to avoid facing the reality of this pandemic. Haters just want an excuse to be hateful.

[KS Toronado]

31. "because of a political agenda isn't terrorism"

"if they're white" should read " if they're reQublicOns", you did mention political. IMHO

[NJCher]

14. at the root of all this is

1) inability to accept reality

2) once consequences result as a result of a, refusal to accept them.

Hey, sometimes reality sucks. But not accepting and dealing with it makes everything worse.

[summer_in_TX]

15. Austin is one of the more vaccinated cities in Texas.

But since Texas is far from one of the most vaccinated states, the ERs and ICUs are overrun in the major cities.

The situation for COVID beds and other ICU patients is dire.

[catrose]

20. And we're at Stage 5

[Lonestarblue]

34. And many people here in Austin refuse to wear masks.

The county next to us has been at red alert for weeks, and the schools there refuse to issue a mask mandate because it is heavily Republican and our idiot governor has decreed that people cannot be required to wear masks—because they’re responsible and will do the right thing (yeah, right—we’ve seen no indication of responsible behavior for months).

I am constantly appalled at the posts on my community’s Nextdoor app pushing no masks and no vaccinations because they don’t stop Covid. Some have even been pushing hydroxychloroquine and that drug for animals whose name I forget, claiming that they had had Covid and those drugs cured them right away!

Austin is heavily Democratic, but the burbs around the city are heavily Republican, which is why vaccination rates are still low.

[ananda]

35. Austin is 70% vaccinated. However..

people got lax for the last month and now
hospitals are burdened.

Today I noticed everyone in the grocery store
was wearing a mask.

People are coming to their senses now.

[TomDaisy]

16. we are in very dangerous times

[Neema]

17. And these people think that harming a medical professional is going to make the

situation somehow better? These people have come completely untethered from reality.

[dalton99a]

18. Some people don't deserve to breathe.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

49. Agree

Some people's actions are so bad,dangerous or abusive they basically have forfeited thier lives.

They will keep pushing until someone says enough, permanently.

I think the republicans higher up the food chain than a typical magat has peddled psychosis to the masses.

A psychotic mass of followers unable to reason or see reality
Is a force creating insanity. Rich entitled assholes who want to believe they have a divine right to rule the people of this country are the problem.

We need to shut down any rich bastard funding this fascist shit . Make them responsible and pay with losing wealth and power. Stand up to these self declared "masters of the universe"and put them in their place,under our feet.

[Warpy]

19. We got treated badly during the AIDS epidemnic, also

That was more understandable, nobody knew it was a virus yet and nobody knew how it spread yet. One hospital in Boston went so far as to allow nurses to work in "professional" street clothes with lab coats on top.

People get nutso when they're scared. And bullies always think bullying works for every occasion.

[LeftInTX]

24. Ugh...In 1987, I was scratched (more like cut) up in the ER by 6 year old hemophiliac

This kid went nuts whenever he came in with a bleed..He had long nails with blood on them and tore into my skin. So, then I had to have an AIDS test and so did he. I still have the scar from that cut. I was scared to death and I was a young mother. Fortunately, he was not HIV positive....

Nowadays I have a friend who has lived with AIDS for almost 40 years. When he gets sick with cold and/or flu he blows his nose all over the place, just like any other sloppy guy...Nobody gives a fly'n flip.....

[MustLoveBeagles]

21. People have gone insane

I hope your cousin's granddaughter stays safe.

[keithbvadu2]

22. "they run for the hospital "

[orleans]

25. those fuckers need to be rerouted to the governor's mansion

(or barn--or whatever the fuck he lives in)

[Lithos]

26. WTF?

All I can say - WTF?

[Irish_Dem]

29. Mass psychosis, social breakdown, end of social contract. Like that old episode of Twilight Zone.

[raccoon]

32. The "monsters on Maple Street" episode? Nt

[Irish_Dem]

39. Yes that is the one! I keep thinking about it right now for some reason. :(

[lunatica]

47. The Monsters are Due on Maple Street

[AngryOldDem]

30. We're headed for societal breakdown. EOM.

[hadEnuf]

36. This anarchy is being orchestrated.

Tell gullible idiots that vaccines and masks are enslavement and a plot to kill them, then blame the hospitals and their workers for not being able to treat them when they get sick.

Then blame the current government for screwing it all up and "stabbing everybody in the back".

In swoops the "the only one who can save us?"

[marble falls]

37. Orchestrated anarchy. Jumbo shrimp. Military justice. Progessive Republicans. ...

Orchestration of whatever it is eliminates it from being anarchy.

[hadEnuf]

41. Yeah but anarchy is the result.

Or an unruly mob, riot or unhappy tourists. Whatever you think the appropriate term is.

[JanMichael]

53. That would be chaos or rioting or mayhem.

Oh and I'm not defending anarchists, I'm a socialist we don't get them.

[Marcuse]

40. 42 CFR § 70.6 - Apprehension and detention of persons with quarantinable communicable diseases.

a) The Director may authorize the apprehension, medical examination, quarantine, isolation, or conditional release of any individual for the purpose of preventing the introduction, transmission, and spread of quarantinable communicable diseases, as specified by Executive Order, based upon a finding that:

(1) The individual is reasonably believed to be infected with a quarantinable communicable disease in a qualifying stage and is moving or about to move from a State into another State; or

(2) The individual is reasonably believed to be infected with a quarantinable communicable disease in a qualifying stage and constitutes a probable source of infection to other individuals who may be moving from a State into another State.

(b) The Director will arrange for adequate food and water, appropriate accommodation, appropriate medical treatment, and means of necessary communication for individuals who are apprehended or held in quarantine or isolation under this part.

[82 FR 6971, Jan. 19, 2017]





[link:https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/42/70.6|

[jaxexpat]

42. You just can't reason with Zombies. Who knew?

[getagrip_already]

43. My father was an intern at a hospital in Harlem in the 40's....

He said they would walk to and from work at all hours in their lab coats. The gangs left them alone because if they hurt any staff member, the hospital would stop treating them.

Dying from a knife wound or not getting a bone set is a miserable thing to do, but apparently it worked.

[Pepsidog]

44. Drag Murdoch and RW media personalities through the streets. They shouldn't live in peace.

[Texaswitchy]

45. Yep

Knew this was going to happen.

Said so.

My housemate is retired RN.

Started out as a Medic in the Army.

She was connected to come back to the hospital she retired from.

She said hell no.

It will get dangerous.

[dickthegrouch]

46. I am not normally given to violence, but

These mask-less unvaccinated fools have got to be stopped.

The cops should get them to admit that they are conducting a war - and then send them to trial for failure to wear the Geneva Convention required uniform. All combatants are required to wear one. Those who don't can be dealt with as spies, especially if they are armed.


Bad choices have bad consequences. Anything we can do to make those consequences worse is OK in my book for this untenable situation.

[Justice matters.]

51. And to think if the orange terrorist had not fired Obama's pandemic-prevention task force...

none of that abysmal mayhem would happen...

[OhioChick]

52. My kids are now being told not to wear scrubs to work due to their safety n/t