Sunday, June 7, 2020

WSJ: Covid-19 Overwhelms Wayne County

Rural Mississippi managed to make the front pages yet again.  Wayne County suffers a major outbreak of the Covid-19 virus and the Wall Street Journal took note.  The Journal reported:


The coronavirus pandemic is challenging Mississippi’s rural health-care system as outbreaks worsen in far-flung areas at the same time state officials allow all businesses to reopen.

Deep in the state’s southeastern Pine Belt, the latest pressure point is Wayne County, population 20,000, which is served by a single hospital that is more than an hour by ambulance from a larger one in Hattiesburg and two hours from the university medical center in Jackson.

A spike in community transmission that county officials link to social gatherings, starting around Mother’s Day, has pushed the 58-bed Wayne General Hospital to its limit and triggered a visit from the state’s top health official in late May. The intensive-care unit frequently reaches maximum capacity and has had to shuffle ventilators from other departments when its five ventilators are all in use...

Wayne County got its first big wave hitting the local hospital around Memorial Day. The county has 13 positive cases per 1,000 residents, well above the statewide rate of about five cases per 1,000...

State officials say social gatherings are leading to employees bringing the virus to work, and Dr. Hendricks says seven Wayne General staffers have tested positive, with 15 tests pending, despite full personal-protective equipment. The state delivered to the county about 20,000 face masks, Ms. Atchison said, which had been unattainable through normal supply chains.

In Waynesboro, the county seat, Pastor Martell Padgett of the Pentecostal Church of God is holding church services exclusively via Facebook, but he said people are still gathering for barbecues and fish fries. Young people continue to socialize at gas stations, potentially carrying the coronavirus to older relatives.

“I get to see a lot of what is not being done to keep the virus from spreading,” he said. “There’s not anything to do here other than to get together.”  Rest of article.

Wayne County reports 315 cases and 3 deaths.  There is only one case reported in a long-term care facility.

22 comments:

Anonymous said...

Self discipline and personal responsibility. Not that complicated.

Anonymous said...

@2:28pm - It’s extremely complicated and difficult for your average rural uneducated Mississippi that only care about themselves and imitate their God given leaders Trump and Tater Tott. “If they ain’t wearing a mask, I ain’t wearing a mask.” Darwin will do his work, but unfortunately it will still also affect those of us that try to take every precaution due to their idiocy.

Anonymous said...

cOrOnAviRuS iS oVeR!1!!!!11!!!!

Seriously how many people have to get sick/die for that narrative to go away?

Anonymous said...

@3:09 I think you are a very uninformed individual!

Anonymous said...

@3:09,

Your constant diatribe against our elected officials, blaming them for this plague, has gotten really old. I had a friend die yesterday from Covid-19. She was a well educated professional who had taken every precaution against getting this horrible disease. Sadly she still contracted it and it cost her her life. She, like you, hated all things Trump and Reeves and worshiped the ground Obama walked on, but that didn't save her from an untimely death. My point is that this disease doesn't attack people because of where they live or what their political beliefs are. Grow up!

Anonymous said...

3:09, you make several general assumptions that I am sure are based solely on your personal political bias. But you fail to read the statistical factors in this story while your green eyeshades tint your beliefs.

Young folks gathering, social fish frys, hanging out at gas stations.

The young - whether it be in Wayne County or across the state or across the nation think that they are immune, they aren't going to be bothered by this supposed 'virus' that they can't see, feel or touch - and they have been told in their social media networks that it doesn't affect their age groups.

But, when all it takes is one - such as at the recent weekend Madison County corona-party - to leave and carry it home to mamma and them - then it gets out of control.

No, they aren't 'following' anyone's lead - other than their own group of peeps, and not willing to listen to what "the man" says for them to do.

Nothing new here, and Waynesboro and the surrounding area aren't going to be the only places where this idiocy occurs and continues over the coming months.

Anonymous said...

@3:09 PM - obviously follows his leader "Sniffy" Biden.

Anonymous said...

To put this in context, the article is from the Wall Street Journal - a publication which, for decades, has been an integral part of the giant media LIE MACHINE. This Lie Machine serves, ultimately, the same foreign interests served by the paid "Operatives" trolling this blog. Apparently, the Operatives' instructions are to make Mississippians feel "ignorant" about not embracing the media-driven MASS HYSTERIA over Covid-19.

Anonymous said...

I find it very ironic that many who agitated for all C-19-related restrictions to be lifted are now vocal opponents of the mass protests going on around the country for the last week. Had we left the stay-home orders in place, many of the cities with the most property damage from rioting and looting would have had the authority to clear the streets of protesters.

Anonymous said...

3:09 must have missed the video of the CNN reported screeching at the WH press secretary about not wearing a facemask and parroting the usual CNN "Orange Man bad" script. Then as soon as the press conference ended the same reporter immediately took her facemask off to exit the room.

Truth is an inconvenience to these people. Building the narrative is everything.

Anonymous said...

@ 6:42

Are you for real ? This is a joke right ?

Anonymous said...

5:55 You do realize the WSJ is owned by News Corp and ultimately Rupert Murdoch. Same person that controls Fox News. It has a definite conservative bias. They have generally favored more aggressive reopening of businesses.

Anonymous said...

11:30 pm, If you think the WSJ is in any way conservative you have obviously not read that liberal rag. I subscribed to it for several years, but it went so far to the left that I canceled my subscription. I get much better investment information online anyway.

Anonymous said...

@5:55 I enjoy WSJ for its pro-business and center-right reporting while still maintaining respectability that Fox News doesn’t have. Sorry but yo are wrong.

Anonymous said...

Numbers: About 20,298 Wayne County population (according to google)

Virus cases as of June 6 - "overwhelmed" at 315 total cases SINCE MARCH 11.

This article is typical of fanning the flames of fear, as noted by a comment under the article wanting to help by flooding them with ventilators.

Anonymous said...

I see the “muh freedumbs” MAGA crowd is out in force on this post.

Anonymous said...

They conveniently left out South Central Regional Medical Center in Laurel which is only 30 minutes away on a 4 lane highway and the Meridian hospital maybe an hour away, if that far. I wonder why they left off these two convenient hospitals?

Birds of a feather said...

Glad to have you with us at 8:20.

Anonymous said...

7:58, I believe the word "overwhelm" was used to refer to the only hospital in the county, not the county itself.

Anonymous said...

This is not about politics. It is about life and death. J

Anonymous said...

Rupert Murdoch's alt right political/financial propaganda covers a lot of ground from Christian broadcasting to the Wall St Journal. And he owns The Dow. From prayer rugs and $1,000 seeds of faith to keep the faith and keep buying ETFs the Murdoch/Mercer/Koch machine just keeps digging money out of the pockets of the gullible and paying a pittance in taxes.

Anonymous said...

@11:30 - “ownership by” does not always equal “control over thought”. Where the entirety of the commonly owned liberal news media simply parrots whatever narrative has been pre-approved for them, those owned by more conservative organizations generally allow their reporters, commentators and hosts to speak for themselves. If you need proof, just check out WAPT (Fox-40). It’s almost a mirror image of WLBT & WJTV. CLEARLY not being “dictated to” by Fox News Corporation


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