Though I still wear many hats these days, including as Chairman of the NC Democratic Party, below are several brief messages of mine that are either public safety, campaign, or Democratic Party related.
On top of its strict rules preventing people infected with the virus from coming on board, the Navy is also refusing to treat a host of other conditions. Guidelines disseminated to hospitals included a list of 49 medical conditions that would exclude a patient from admittance to the ship.
Ambulances cannot take patients directly to the Comfort; they must first deliver patients to a city hospital for a lengthy evaluation — including a test for the virus — and then pick them up again for transport to the ship.
I must be getting slow in my old age. I had assumed the ship was going to New York to help with the overflow of COVID 19 cases, but that is apparently not the case. I'm trying to find a list of those other 49 medical conditions the ship is refusing to treat, but we may have to wait until somebody leaks it, because the Navy isn't releasing that info. It may (or may not) surprise you to find out the same damn thing happened when it "came to the rescue" of Puerto Rico:
NC HAS THE SECOND LARGEST UNEMPLOYMENT CRISIS IN THE NATION: More than 350,000 North Carolinians have filed for unemployment since mid-March, state officials said in a daily update Thursday. That’s when businesses starting closing down due to local and statewide orders to try to stem the tide of COVID-19. And those 350,000 people don’t include those who have lost their jobs but haven’t filed for unemployment. There have been numerous reports of problems with the website and phone lines at the state’s unemployment office, which has been swamped by the record job losses, the News & Observer has reported. “North Carolina has the second biggest increase in unemployment due to coronavirus,” WalletHub said, explaining that when taking both numbers into account for all 50 states, only Louisiana has been hit harder. https://www.newsobserver.com/news/coronavirus/article241724831.html
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