Saturday, August 07, 2021

Something to Lament . . .


Related Off-site Links:
U.S. Now Averaging 100,000 New COVID-19 Infections a Day – Terry Spencer (Associated Press, August 7, 2021).
Vaccine Regrets Proliferate as Delta Surges “Like a Tsunami” Among Unvaccinated – Julia Conley (Common Dreams, August 6, 2021).
Florida Reports Record 22,783 New COVID-19 Cases – David Selig (Local10.com, August 6, 2021).
Louisiana Keeps Breaking COVID-19 Hospitalization Records – Melinda Deslatte (Associated Press, August 6, 2021).
Only 25 ICU Beds Available in Arkansas as COVID Cases SurgeTHV11.com (August 4, 2021).
Ravages of COVID Surge Evident Inside Missouri Hospital – Sarah Blake Morgan and Jim Salter (Associated Press, July 29, 2021).
Doctor: Delta Variant Spread “Like a Tsunami” in Mississippi – Leah Willingham (Associated Press, August 5, 2021).
ER Doctor: “What a Senseless, Self-Inflicted Wound” – Alex Busko (CNN News, July 30, 2021).
Unvaccinated and Hospitalized: Patient Now Advocates for Vaccine – Associated Press via Snopes (August 4, 2021).
Texas GOP Official Mocked COVID Five Days Before He Died of Virus – Justin Rohrlich (The Daily Beast, August 4, 2021).
A Florida Radio Host Who Railed Against Dr. Fauci and Vaccines Has Died From COVID-19 – Yelena Dzhanova (Yahoo! News, August 7, 2021).
Govenor: South Carolina Law “Very Clear” in Banning School Mask Mandates – Meg Kinnard (Associated Press, August 6, 2021).
Long COVID Cannot Be Ignored – It’s Vital We Determine Its True Scale in Society – Samuel Lovett (Independent, August 6, 2021).
I Wouldn’t Trade Breathing For Any Political Principle I Hold – Charles P. Pierce (Esquire, July 30, 2021).
Yep, We Need More Blame – Josh Marshall (Talking Points Memo, July 30, 2021).
COVID Survivor: “Have to Start My Life All Over Again” – Sudhin Thanawala (Associated Press, August 7, 2021).
Do You Need to Wear a Mask Indoors Where You Live? Check This Map – Selena Simmons-Duffin, Ruth Talbot, Thomas Wilburn (NPR News, August 6, 2021).
Maryland Governor: “Just Get the Damn Vaccine” – Brian Witte (Associated Press, August 5, 2021).
My Brother Is One of Millions Who Won’t Get the COVID-19 Vaccine. I Asked Why. Here Are His Reasons and My Responses – Nicole Carroll (USA Today, August 6, 2021).

UPDATES: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Order Barring Masks in Schools Faces First Legal Challenges – Joseph Choi (The Hill, August 8, 2021).
The Rebellion Against Pro-Trump, Anti-Mask GOP Governors Is Growing – Michael Hamer (Michael-In-Norfolk, August 10, 2021).
How the Pandemic Now Ends – Ed Yong (The Atlantic, August 12, 2021).
The Far Right’s Deadly Embrace of Anti-Vaccine Stupidity – John Feffer (Common Dreams, August 14, 2021).
Child Hospitalization for COVID-19 Hits All-Time High in U.S.Common Dreams (August 14, 2021).
America’s Coronavirus Outbreak Is Now a Patchwork of Highly Vaccinated States and Pockets of the Raging Delta Variant – Barbara Miller (ABC News, August 15, 2021).

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
A Pandemic Year
Out and About – Spring 2020
A Prayer in Times of a Pandemic
The Calm Before the Storm
Hope and Beauty in the Midst of the Global Coronavirus Pandemic
Marianne Williamson: In the Midst of This “Heartbreaking” Pandemic, It’s Okay to Be Heartbroken
Sonya Renee Taylor: Quote of the Day – April 18, 2020
Examining the Link Between Destruction of Biodiversity and Emerging Infectious Diseases
The Lancet Weighs-in on the Trump Administration's “Incoherent” Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic
Memes of the Times

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