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The medical infrastructure right now is fragile because of covid-19. um, it is much better than it was 16 years ago because we had a a loss of life that was that was over, you know, 3 or 400 people in the hospital settings because they weren t prepared. they didn t have generators. so now, at least we do have generators. but, you know, what what s happening because doctors are frustrated. they are having to move patients that really need care and and mostly unvaccinated people that are in the hospital admitted. doctors are frustrated. but the patients, the people are frustrated, too. and the reason why is because this is actually a superspreader event. and the reason why is because if you have let your guard down, you re frustrated. you re upset. the last thing you are going to want to do is sit in your house and wear a mask with all of your family members around huddled because your you know, it s hierarchy of needs at this point. so that is that s going to make the delta ....
In the state. teams are using trucks and boats to navigate flooded neighborhoods. some armed with chab chain saws to clear debris trapping people in their homes. 1 million people are without power right now as a result of incidents like this, where an electrical tower was left just utterly crumpled by the storm. now, it could take days or weeks even for power to be fully restored which is, obviously, ominous and terrible for a number of reasons. setting aside the massive inconvenience and the potential danger from the southern heat, which is very real. there is also the brutal reality of the coronavirus which has been ravaging louisiana. in one icu, doctors and nurses were forced to manually pump air into patients lungs after a generator failure caused their ventilators to shut off. reminder the virus does not pause for natural disasters. and so, medical professionals are left balancing a once-in-a-century pandemic on top of our changing climate, which makes extreme-weather events bot ....
They re starting to smoke. and then, what happens is they are not going to be able to have any ability to leave this city because there is not gas, there s not electricity. so they are in these hot houses, they re dehydrated from drinking. and then, they don t get enough water and then they end up in the hospital. and can t even go to the hospital. so well, it seems to me, a key issue here, sherry, is is the timeline for power restoration. i mean, the one time that i have been in in a serious storm s aftermath, which was hurricane irma in florida. it was just so apparent that, you know, 12 hours without power. 24 hours. not great. you just start to push out two, three days in a hot place, you start to really run up against some real limitations for people s health and security. this is so, so true. and it s not just the hospitals and, by the way, some of those do not have their air conditioning systems attached. yeah. to the back-up power. ....