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A self proclaimed male(?) 'woke' fan of AOC has a blog called "Women Systems".

Unless you do these things, we're not interested (Picture)

http://www.womensystems.com/2020/11/unless-you-do-these-things-were-not.html

My gut tells me this doesn't pass the smell test.

Reminds me of staged photos in front of Bellevue New York hospital, that when visited by a real person with a camera, came up empty.

I could be wrong, but this just doesn't look right.

Lion

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: 'Patients Go In And Only Come Out In A Body Bag': El Paso
: Nurse Describes 'The Pit' Where COVID Patients Get Just
: Three Rounds Of CPR Before Being Left To Die As Texas
: Enlists Inmates To Move Bodies At Morgue For $2 An Hour
: https://youtu.be/_4V4D-mjCUw

: From: Women System November 17, 2020

: A nurse in El Paso, Texas, has told of the 'horrific'
: conditions at hospitals in the city as the state grapples
: with one of the worst surges in coronavirus in the United
: States, and prison inmates are brought in to help carry the
: dead in morgues.

: Registered nurse Lawanna Rivers took to Facebook to describe
: her time at the University Medical Center in El Paso where
: she claims patients were taken to a room called The Pit and
: given just three rounds of CPR before being pronounced
: dead.

: In a video posted to Facebook November 7 she said: 'My first
: day at orientation, I was told that whatever patients go
: into the pit, they only come out in a body bag. I saw a lot
: of people die that I felt like shouldn't have died.

: 'This hospital's policy was they only get three rounds of CPR
: which was only six minutes, this out of all the codes we
: had, there is not a single patient that made it.'

: Her shocking statement came as pictures taken Saturday show
: offenders, dressed in PPE gear, helping the El Paso County
: Medical Examiner's office carry the dead to refrigerated
: trucks amid a mounting death toll that threatens to
: overwhelm the state.

: The virus that is surging throughout the U.S. has been
: unsparing across Texas where the latest figures show more
: than one million people have tested positive for the virus;
: more than 20,000 people have died across the state as of
: Monday.

: In El Paso data released by the city Sunday confirms six more
: people had died from the virus. There were 981 new COVID-19
: cases with more than 73,000 people testing positive in
: total. The city said there were seven additional deaths
: Monday bringing the death toll to 769. The deaths include
: two men and one woman in their 70s, two men and one woman
: in their 80s, and one woman in her 90s. All seven had
: underlying health conditions.

: Last week daily deaths were increasing at a slightly higher
: rate with 15 additional deaths reported Saturday; 16 on
: Friday and 29 deaths reported Thursday. As of November 6
: the death toll was 657, indicating the rise since then.

: An El Paso County Sheriff's Office spokesman confirmed to The
: Texas Tribune that up to eight inmates have volunteered to
: carry out the work for $2 an hour. The inmates are not
: normally paid for their community work but are said to have
: 'refused to work unless they were compensated' for this
: task, the spokesperson confirmed.

: An inmate from El Paso County detention center waits to help
: load bodies wrapped in plastic into a refrigerated
: temporary morgue trailer in a parking lot of the El Paso
: County Medical Examiner's office on Monday.
: An inmate from El Paso County detention center waits to help
: load bodies wrapped in plastic into a refrigerated
: temporary morgue trailer in a parking lot of the El Paso
: County Medical Examiner's office on Monday

: The inmates, who are also known as trustees, are volunteering
: for the work and earn $2 per hour amid a surge of COVID-19
: cases in El Paso. They are pictured Monday.
: The inmates, who are also known as trustees, are volunteering
: for the work and earn $2 per hour amid a surge of COVID-19
: cases in El Paso. They are pictured Monday

: Texas surpassed 20,000 confirmed coronavirus deaths today, the
: second-highest in the U.S., with active cases in El Paso
: now well over 30,000. The inmates from El Paso County
: detention center are pictured Monday.
: Texas surpassed 20,000 confirmed coronavirus deaths today, the
: second-highest in the U.S., with active cases in El Paso
: now well over 30,000. The inmates from El Paso County
: detention center are pictured Monday

: El Paso County detention inmates help move bodies to
: refrigerated trailers outside the Medical Examiner's Office
: which is located next to a cemetery in El Paso, Texas on
: Saturday amid a surge of COVID-19 deaths.
: El Paso County detention inmates help move bodies to
: refrigerated trailers outside the Medical Examiner's Office
: which is located next to a cemetery in El Paso, Texas on
: Saturday amid a surge of COVID-19 deaths.

: Pictures taken Saturday show offenders, dressed in PPE gear,
: helping the El Paso County Medical Examiner's office carry
: the dead to refrigerated trucks amid a mounting death toll
: that threatens to overwhelm the state.
: Pictures taken Saturday show offenders, dressed in PPE gear,
: helping the El Paso County Medical Examiner's office carry
: the dead to refrigerated trucks amid a mounting death toll
: that threatens to overwhelm the state

: El Paso County, Texas, has been forced to deploy mobile
: morgues and enlist the help of inmates to move the bodies
: of COVID-19 victims into these cold storage facilities
: El Paso County, Texas, has been forced to deploy mobile
: morgues and enlist the help of inmates to move the bodies
: of COVID-19 victims into these cold storage facilities

: The use of inmates to help carry bodies is thought to be a
: temporary measure until the National Guard can take over
: the task
: The use of inmates to help carry bodies is thought to be a
: temporary measure until the National Guard can take over
: the task

: Last week officials in El Paso announced plans to add four
: additional morgue trailers, bringing the total number there
: to 10
: Last week officials in El Paso announced plans to add four
: additional morgue trailers, bringing the total number there
: to 10

: An El Paso County Sheriff's Office spokesman confirmed that up
: to eight inmates have volunteered to carry out the work +21
: An El Paso County Sheriff's Office spokesman confirmed that up
: to eight inmates have volunteered to carry out the work

: Rivers added: 'The morgue was so full of bodies that they had
: ran out of room, so once the doors opened to the pit they
: come wheeling in a body already in a bag.

: '[They] lined them up with the rest of our alive patients,
: because they had to store the body in there, because the
: morgue was out of room. They've had to bring in freezer
: trucks because there's so many bodies.

: 'The facility I'm at has surpassed the one I was at in New
: York. I have never experienced, and have no words, for what
: I just experienced in El Paso, Texas.'

: Across the US more than 11 million people have tested
: positive; 246,854 Americans have died.

: The border county of El Paso has a population of just 839,238.
: There are at least 33,935 active cases - an all-time high -
: and 1,111 are hospitalized. A little less than a third of
: those patients are in ICUs.

: In total, nearly 75,000 people in El Paso County have been
: infected, representing about nine percent of the entire
: population.

: In Houston, hospitalizations nearly doubled this week compared
: with last month for the virus. A total of 2,351 people have
: died from the virus in Harris County; more than 174,000
: people have tested positive.

: And in Dallas health officials on Sunday reported 1,458
: additional cases and one additional death bringing the
: total number of people infected there to more than 100,000
: cases and 1,142 confirmed deaths.

: Texas has recorded the second-highest death count overall in
: the U.S., trailing only New York, according to researchers
: from Johns Hopkins University. It's the 22nd-highest per
: capita at 69.7 deaths per 100,000 people.
: Despite that, many Texans are said to be experiencing
: 'quarantine fatigue'.

: Dr. Erin Carlson, an associate clinical professor in the
: College of Nursing and Health Innovation at the University
: of Texas at Arlington, told The LA Times: 'People have
: quarantine fatigue. They're tired of it. They want to go
: over to their friend's house and have poker night just like
: they used to.

: 'Pretty much any contact tracer you talk to, they're seeing
: small gatherings and that's driving the rates up. They're
: tired and they want to see their families, so they're going
: ahead to the birthday parties.'

: The virus that is surging throughout the U.S. has been
: unsparing across Texas where the latest figures show more
: than one million people have tested positive for the virus;
: 19,559 have died across the state. El Paso is pictured
: Saturday +21
: The virus that is surging throughout the U.S. has been
: unsparing across Texas where the latest figures show more
: than one million people have tested positive for the virus;
: 19,559 have died across the state. El Paso is pictured
: Saturday

: In El Paso data released by the city Sunday confirms six more
: people had died from the virus, bringing the death toll to
: 762. There were 981 new COVID-19 cases with more than
: 73,000 people testing positive in total. El Paso is
: pictured Saturday +21
: In El Paso data released by the city Sunday confirms six more
: people had died from the virus, bringing the death toll to
: 762. There were 981 new COVID-19 cases with more than
: 73,000 people testing positive in total. El Paso is
: pictured Saturday

: Despite the startling figures many Texans are said to be
: experiencing 'quarantine fatigue'. El Paso is pictured
: Saturday +21
: Despite the startling figures many Texans are said to be
: experiencing 'quarantine fatigue'. El Paso is pictured
: Saturday

: Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of Baylor College of Medicine's National
: School of Tropical Medicine, added: 'The country is in free
: fall. It's in disaster mode. It's really scary in terms of
: the surges on the ICUs, the hospital staff getting
: exhausted, and you know mortality is just going to shoot
: up. These are lives that don't have to be lost.'

: The use of inmates to help carry bodies is a temporary measure
: until the National Guard can take over the task, WWJ
: reports. The inmates are part of El Paso County Sheriff’s
: Office's 'trustee program', and are low-level offenders.

: Judge Ricardo Samaniego said that using prisoners to move the
: bodies is a last resort.

: 'If there’s no personnel, no one to help out, and there’s
: volunteers, even if they are inmates, then that’s what
: we’re left with', he told KFOX14. 'It was just a temporary
: focus, and we’re waiting for the Texas National Guard to
: help us out with that.'

: Last week officials in El Paso announced plans to add four
: additional morgue trailers, bringing the total number there
: to 10 as of Wednesday.

: Registered nurse Lawanna Rivers took to Facebook to describe
: her time at the University Medical Center in El Paso where
: she claims patients were taken to a room called The Pit and
: given just three rounds of CPR before being pronounced dead

: For nurse Rivers, who described leaving patients in the The
: Pit, she said 'to know that the only way that those
: patients was coming out of that pit was in a body bag' left
: her feeling 'not ok from an emotional mental standpoint.'

: She also alleges certain patients were given preferential
: treatment, adding: 'The nurse that orientated me had one
: patient, she was called the 'VIP' patient, she was a
: doctor's wife.

: 'They pulled out all the stops for that woman — there was
: nothing that they didn't do for that woman. And guess what?
: She was the one patient that made it out of that ICU
: alive.'

: A spokesman for the University Medical Center told KVIA:
: 'After watching the video, while we cannot fully verify the
: events expressed, we empathize and sympathize with the
: difficult, physical and emotional toll that this pandemic
: takes on thousands of healthcare workers here and
: throughout our country.

: 'This particular travel nurse was at UMC briefly to help El
: Paso confront the surge of Covid-19 patients.'

: So far, Texas leaders have given no indication of forthcoming
: restrictions to keep people from gathering and spreading
: the virus. Instead, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott in recent
: days has been emphasizing that new therapeutics and
: vaccines are expected to become available soon.

: On Friday the Eighth Court of Appeals in El Paso ruled against
: an order closing nonessential businesses including gyms and
: salons, sending the case back to a district judge who had
: upheld it with instructions to halt the shutdown.

: State Attorney General Ken Paxton sued to overturn the order
: County Judge Ricardo Samaniego issued in October, despite a
: surge that has overwhelmed hospitals and funeral homes in
: the border city of El Paso.

: Samaniego said he is unhappy with a state appeals court ruling
: overturning his order closing nonessential businesses to
: slow the spread of the coronavirus, but he won't appeal it.

: He said he would work with business leaders and health
: officials to develop ways to protect public health and the
: economy. A previous order limiting nonessential businesses
: to 50% capacity, closing bars and dine-in restaurant
: services at 9 p.m. limiting social gatherings to no more
: than 10 people and a mask mandate remain in place, he said.

: Date released by the city of El Paso as Texas officials
: grapple with one of the worst surges in coronavirus in the
: United States

: Texas and California have reported the highest number of
: COVID-19 infections across the United States, together
: accounting for about 2.1 million cases or about 19 per cent
: of the total cases since the pandemic began, according to
: Reuters analysis.

: Texas logged more than 9,100 new cases Sunday of the
: coronavirus that causes COVID-19, according to statistics
: compiled by Johns Hopkins University.

: The 9,113 new cases boosted to more than 1.052 million the
: number of Texas cases since the pandemic struck in March,
: the university reported.

: On Friday the state surpassed 7,000 hospitalized patients for
: the first time since early August, just days after becoming
: America's first state to surpass 1 million confirmed cases
: of the coronavirus.

: The Texas Department of State Health Services said that there
: were 7,083 people hospitalized in the state with COVID-19
: as cases continue to rise.

: On Wednesday Texas also became America's first state with more
: than 1 million confirmed COVID-19 cases.

: During the summer, people with COVID-19 overwhelmed hospitals
: in Houston and in the Rio Grande Valley, along the border
: with Mexico. But in the fall case numbers dipped, and
: Abbott began relaxing some coronavirus restrictions,
: allowing restaurants and gyms to let more people inside. He
: also let county leaders decide if they wanted to reopen
: bars at 50 percent capacity.

: Since then, the virus has spread.

: Over the past two weeks, the rolling average number of daily
: new cases has increased by 3,430.4, an increase of 53.6
: percent.

: Texas now ranks 31st in the country for new cases per capita,
: with 428.3 new cases per 100,000 people over the past two
: weeks. One in every 417 people in Texas tested positive in
: the past week.

: Across the United State, the number of coronavirus cases
: crossed the 11-million mark on Sunday reaching yet another
: grim milestone, as the third wave of COVID-19 infections
: surged across the country.

: The latest 7-day average, shows the United States is reporting
: more than 144,000 daily cases and 1,120 daily deaths, the
: highest for any country in the world.

: Moderna said Monday its COVID-19 vaccine is proving to be
: highly effective in a major trial.

: The company said its vaccine appears to be 94.5 per cent
: effective, according to preliminary data from Moderna's
: ongoing study. A week ago, competitor Pfizer Inc. announced
: its own COVID-19 vaccine appeared similarly effective —
: news that puts both companies on track to seek permission
: within weeks for emergency use in the U.S.

: More at source:
: http://www.womensystems.com/2020/11/patients-go-in-and-only-come-out-in.html