Jackson Jambalaya

Where is the USNS Comfort, President Biden?

Amen!

Preach, Dr. W, Preach! Thank you!

I'm not going to leave some snarky comment. The time for that has passed. I grew up here, have lived here all my life, and despite their obstinance, I have great affection for the country contrarians that make up our majority. It's not my place to urge any particular action, and even if I tried to, it would have no effect. I just want to say that this is sad, and if you've removed yourself from that emotion, then you need to strip away some layers of cynicism. The virus will kill a lot of people. Indeed it already has. It has disrupted life in a way I never thought I'd witness. But the cultural decay this virus has laid bare is, in my opinion, a far greater malady. What is the purpose of this whole thing if it's not to love and protect each other? We need a return to first principles. We need a renaissance.

Everybody casts blame...chief among them those with advanced medical degrees. On of these days, one of these guys will come right out and say..."Each of us in the profession and otherwise shares part of the blame..."

I wish she was that upset about the birth rate among unwed mothers.

And the dope heads that show up in the ER for taxpayer treatment.

And the frivolous lawsuits against medical professionals.

And the absurd Certificate of Need process to license hospitals.

And nursing home mistreatment of patients.

And, And, And...........

I wish you realized, 6:30, that people can be upset about more than one thing at a time.

She needs to get back in there and fix my ham sammich.

I hope this does not mean there will be no “Zebra tent” at Ole Miss this football season.

Time to make newly admitted unvaccinated sign DNR orders…..

That will stop this in 7 days.

It’s UMMC, they have no clue what they’re doing. Once you go there you’ll end up dead. They never update anything, have no clue where a patient is supposed to be going for an appointment and no idea what the patient is there for, for an appointment. No communication at all.

@ 6:38

Standing by for the good doctor's tongue lashing to those creating Mississippi's sky-high STD and obesity rate.

"I LOVE MISSISSIPPI, BUT YA'LL NEED TO BE WEARING RUBBERS AND BACK OFF OF THE ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT BUFFET'S"

Well said 6:25 !!!

Wouldn’t it be cool if she had added she understands the distrust in the federal government as being justified but please trust MS doctors who are your neighbors?
RMQ

I saw the USNS Comfort coming up the mighty Pearl River.

I'm really tired of her, Dubious Dodds & Fraudulent Fauci wagging their bony finger of righteous indignation at every turn. They and others are drunk on their 15 minutes of fame as opposed to doing a job.

6:30- Spot on. Lou Ann like to bloviate a lot but sure has a lot of failed issues that can be placed at her feet. If she would just open her big mouth to address some of these even more important issues.

She’s so damn condescending.

True leadership knows how to influence people to get the outcome they want. She is just a shrill bully.

I was just refused a life-saving COVID medication today. These doctor deaths must be exposed and held accountable. It’s ALL about the money.

Belay my previous snarky shit post, KF, if you please.
@6:25 - Agreed. Well said. Thank you.

6:30 pm. said: "the frivolous lawsuits against medical professionals. . . . And nursing home mistreatment of patients.

For the last 18 years, one must have an expert report in order to sue a medical provider in Mississippi. Perhaps the lack of legal recourse/accountability is what has led nursing homes to such an abysmal state in caring for their patients.

Time to get some new talking points/grievances, or at least make sure the old ones are logically-interconnected.

The parking garage tents are being set up for monoclonal antibody treatment of high-risk Covid positive patients.

This is essentially outpatient treatment, meaning treating sick people before they get too sick they need to be hospitalized. Exactly what we should have been doing from the beginning of this pandemic with safe, proven HCQ, Ivermectin, vitamin D, zinc, budesonide breathing treatments and inhalers, etc.

I’m excited to see this step forward in the right direction. As more side effects from vaccination are made known and people make the choice not to receive the vaccine, we need more safe, effective therapeutics to combat Covid so we don’t have an overflow situation like this in the fall.

Here is the link to criteria for treatment should you or a friend need it: https://www.umc.edu/news/News_Articles/2021/08/UMMC-to-start-monoclonal-antibody-clinic-Tuesday.html

If all we were lacking was medical staff,(and now that more have arrived)... why aren't we placing ALL patients in the previously unused hospital rooms ... instead of putting the poor souls in tents down in the damn parking garages ?

@8:56

Vaccine side effects? Nothing to speak of. But eventually people will realize that long-haul covid is a very real thing, happening in a very significant number of patients. I've seen it personally in many patients: young thin fit ones, endurance athletes, 30 YO, etc.

And without a higher vaccination rate... you will continue to have "overflows" like this.

Overflowing ER, ICU, Morgue, Funeral Homes, Cemeteries, Etc.

8:56 pm

The snake oil treatments you keep posting (ivermectin etc) are not proven to do anything to help patients with covid or to operate as prophylactics.

You keep posting though….you must have help the stocks too long.

Please stop posting disinformation.

Yep here we go again with the bullshit, I don’t care if you don’t want to get the Vaccine or wear a Mask!
If you get it and are lucky enough to get treatment and survive, that’s good! If you have to go to the hospital or die, at least have insurance! I don’t want to have to contribute to a “ Go Fund Me” to pay for your medical bills or bury you! I don’t want to infringe on your freedom, bully you or call you names . You were given advice, facts and prayers, thats all I can do! I not trying to visit you while you have it and if the worse happens I probably won’t go to the funeral either.

We had to pick up a prescription this afternoon at the Byram Walgreens. There were at least 20 people waiting in line to sign up for covid vaccinations. That's a good sign. Some people are finally getting a clue about this preventable pandemic. Maybe it's the belated realization that they will have to pay their own medical bills if they get sick. Nothing mobilizes the average citizen like money.

God bless our medical workers. I don't know they can stand the back breaking work and stress. It has been 18 months of hell for them.

Appreciate the grandstand, but it’s kinda hard to trust any politician or doctor, these days.

Kudos to the wag at 6:59. I'm going to use that one.

King - do you have info about how many high schools have gone to virtual learning - meaning learning virtually nothing.
A teacher told me the number is 10 in our state.

Well, THAT'LL sure convince em, lady!
Yeesh
856 is of course correct with a source

The pressure is rising for the internet conspiracy idiots. Some are hiding, some are throwing in the towel. Some are scared the virus might actually be real and considering the shot.

And then there’s the ones who are doubling down, cleaning their guns and posting on the internet like mad.

so—all these kids sent home to quarantine don’t have an online option to learn. they just miss two weeks of school.

schools didn’t have to shut down last year before vaccines and antibody treatment (which actually works) thanks to a combination of masks and virtual and social distance where possible

and our governor is MIA.

Gee I always thought the Chinese did this to us…..

8:37 comments deserve a boost. Dr. W reminds me of the medical establishment when AIDS came into the population. Blame, blame, and blame.

Her comments are really stupid and condescending series of comments. Like telling gay men, "Stop having sex!!!"

Planning for the worst (Dr. W failed here); giving a realistic message to the community; giving hope and compassion to the community; jumping ahead of the public health crisis. That is what leadership is.

Clearly Dr. W has failed us miserably.

Unfortunately many people are experiencing side effects from the vaccines. Also as unfortunate, doctors will refuse to make the connection because they won’t see what they aren’t looking for.

I know of plenty of people in the Jackson area now suffering due to side effects from their vax. Eventually word gets around. Eventually docs will wise up to it. Bottom line, it should be a choice, not a mandate. Those who are mandating this new, experimental technology are on the wrong side of history… and pushing it on kids is abominable.

One can only hope the drug companies have mixed in enough placebos with the shots so not everyone will experience adverse events.

For all the commenters saying they don’t like being scolded or blamed for their contributions to this pandemic, what would you like to hear from officials? We’ve tried having local celebrities do psa’s. We’ve tried pleading and rationally explaining the effectiveness and safety of the vaccine. We’ve tried calmly explaining the dangers of an overrun hospital system. What was it going to take to make you see the obvious?

9:08 - "One can only hope the drug companies have mixed in enough placebos with the shots so not everyone will experience adverse events."

Is that how you think it works?

Mississippi is the Alabama football program of ignorance. We may not finish No. 1 every year, but even when we don't, we are close to the top.

If everyone would just take the advice of the pumpkin and Christmas tree farmer, Robert Foster, on Facebook, we would all be better off. Man he is on a tear, and sounding a lot like Chris McDaniel...an idiot. But hey, the people he panders to are eating it up. And I am a conservative republican. Robert Foster, shut up. You don't know what you are talking to.

August 17, 2021 at 7:17 PM
>"I LOVE MISSISSIPPI, BUT YA'LL NEED TO BE WEARING RUBBERS AND BACK OFF OF THE ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT BUFFET'S"

This but unironically.

Please get the vaccine, pray to God that the pandemic ends and hug your family. We need to come together and quit being so paranoid and divisive.

@7:08am - I’m sure you “know plenty of people in the Jackson area” suffering from vaccine side effects. What, a sore arm? Feeling somewhat bad the day after?

Get out of here with that BS

Time to make newly admitted unvaccinated sign DNR orders…..

That will stop this in 7 days.

They should also take all unvaccinated Covid patients & put them under a series of GP Medium tents down by the Pearl River. Don’t lift a finger to help the manifestly stupid. They are the ones causing this.

I wish everyone in the USA would get the jab and let them see that it wont end this, just so we could see what the next verse of the song is.

I got my vax and I am all for making my own choices and letting others do the same but I know there is a new crybaby album chock full of fear and the inevitable demise of humanity in the works, so can we just move on to the next MSM crisis already?

My lip swoll after the first one, after the second one it was my eye, when it comes time for the 3rd I ll be first in line. The prescribed steroids the first time and Benadryl the second . If I have issues with the third, I am sure my doctor will address it accordingly .

All these comments are no one wants to talk about how many kids have tested positive (vs how many tested positive last year). I’m fearful for children. Covid could end in autoimmune diseases (much like mono). We just don’t know yet). But people (esp white rednecks) in MS love to feel “oppressed” by being asked to wear a face mask (comparing it to slavery and the Holocaust, which is so disrespect) and being offered a potentially life saving vaccine - it’s like…I can’t handle the fake oppression anymore And the identity all these other “news” sites have packaged and sold people (don’t be a sheeple! Don’t do things to keep yourself and your community safe cause the government is trying to control you!)..

This is a direct result of the half truths and misdirections the media has pulled the last five years in an attempt to ensure Trump was not reelected. Now everyone questions everything. Get the shot yes its not perfect but its the best defense we have right now. But the media had a huge hand in this

I am vaccinated and I understand that we HOPE it will cause less severe symptoms when we vaxxers get the 'Rona (and we will all get it) and I understand that if the stats are accurate more unvaccinated end up in the hospital...but I don't feel that I am in a position to demand others take my medical advice and go get the jab because I am yelling at them?

Maybe if the peanut gallery (civilians, politicians, celebs, and all non medical persons) had shut up from the beginning and if we just let doctors advise us, we would not have so many folks who feel that cant trust anyone.

Its sad to me that nobody wants to address the reason for the global distrust.

On July 23 I tested positive for COVID. 8 days later I developed the dreaded COVID viral pneumonia. On August 1, I was admitted to St. Dominic's Hospital overnight for observation because my oxygen saturation levels were low and my heart rate was way too high (135). I personally saw how St. D's was essentially triaging patients in the emergency room and literally lining them in the hallways of the emergency department hooking them up to IVs for the antibody infusion treatment. I was lucky to get a bed and be admitted.

I listened to both the good and bad that is being spewed about the vaccines. I was unvaccinated. I made the personal decision NOT to get the vaccine.

My personal decision NOW is to get the vaccine as soon as I can. Not being able to breathe changed my perspective on the vaccine. Though the vaccinated are still getting this variant, I was advised that getting the vaccine AFTER I got COVID would provide me much more protection than those who got the vaccine prior to getting the virus.

My point to this is:

1. Vaccinate or don't? Its a personal decision everyone must make.
2. The doctors are scratching their heads and to a large extent just don't know how to handle this variant.
3. Not being able to breathe while seeing the triaging of patients in a hospital was incredibly upsetting. I never thought I would see this in the USA?
4. Take care of your health. Take vitamins, exercise, and (yes) mask up in-doors or in large crowds.
5. I'm masking up not to protect others from me, but to protect me from others from now on until this virus goes away.

Sorry for the length of this. Everyone has good points on both sides. My personal experience with it HAS changed my mind on a lot of this.

Why has it taken so long to get therapeutics here? Why are doctors being prevented from prescribing anything that might work? People who have been vaccinated get this too. Why were people told there was no treatments before the vaccine. A little honesty about the last 18 months might go a long way towards lessening uncertainty about the vaccine. 856pm provided useful information. 935pm is not helpful at all. We have cnn for that.

The title is correct, the insinuation is wrong. Yes, this a disaster of our own making, but it's a disaster that has exposed our healthcare system that is a diagnostic failure.

For decades we have treated medicine, as a whole, like it is orthopedic surgery. Just repeat the same old, successful procedures over and over, discuss those with others across the nation and have protocols to rigidly adhere to.

We have known for over a year that monoclonal antibody treatment is the single most successful avenue of treatment for recent symptomatic patients. Yet, across the nation, monoclonal antibody treatment is held in reserve OR flatly not used as we continue to see ventilators as an option entirely too soon for a condition we now know is not simply a respiratory virus.

Just now, 18 months later do we acknowledge monoclonal antibody treatment in such a way that we provide it through a clinic setting. I won't discuss other modes of treatment that have proven successful by clinicians across the globe and I won't discuss the absolutely disaster that is the shutting down of information by coercion by the medical community from the top level down through the threat of license suspension or revocation. We have literally let people die because of some absurd condescension and lemming mentality of allowing a few to determine the treatment of everyone.

Remember, 2 weeks to flatten the curve? That was legitimate but somewhere since then, the information forced down our collective throats from on high, was not to beef up our ability to respond and handle things, was not to utilize known tools to keep people away from hospitalization, it was a singular, put all the eggs in one basket approach of a "vaccination." The information has continually proven to change with regards to efficacy, intent and adverse effects. Not diminishing the false sense of security the medical community firmly attempted to establish, the vaccines are an utter failure at control of the virus. Yet we continue to tout them while, apparently begrudgingly, using proven treatment methods..... but we have leaders such as Ms Woodward displacing the blame for the failure of our medical system to adequate address this pandemic because people, rightfully, do not trust something because the information about what it does and does not do is ambiguous at best. It is pure intellectual dishonesty to suggest that the failure to properly address this pandemic is rooted in the unvaccinated. Patients are being asked to play russian roulette when, since the beginning, effective mitigation of the death causing symptoms of Covid has been available but frowned upon by the medical establishment.

Quit shaming and do your damn jobs, stop with the therapeutic nihilism and let doctors be doctors instead of forcing them to simply be technicians providing protocol to a population of patients instead of allowing them to treat the patient one on one, for their specific health, for their specific needs.

It's time for our healthcare system to realize that the doctors are the care-givers, not the insurance companies nor the bureaucrats and untie the hands of our care-givers (doctors, nurses, assistants, etc) and let them take care of their patients.

For those unaware you can still catch and spread covid while vaccinated.

August 17, 2021 at 7:03 PM & August 18, 2021 at 9:11 AM

There are a lot of negligent reasons why people are in the hospital: Driving under the influence, distracted driving, shootings, overdoses, falling off the roof, being obese, not taking your meds, unsafe use of power tools, taking unnecessary risks, etc. Why not just exclude them all from medical care?

#1: For the 2/3 of the state's population who remain unvaccinated to somehow blame the medical establishment for the pandemic is laughable.

#2: Unvaccinated folks who contract the disease should not be treated until after all the vaccinated sick people are treated and there are resources left to treat the fools.

#3: To those guilty souls: I love you, but you're still fools and still a threat.

@10:34


Probably the most cogent post I've read on JJ in months.
Thank you!

(listening to Dr W. makes me wish I did NOT get the vaccine)

Thank you 10:34 This shouldn't be a vax vs non-vax pandemic. There are other considerations

People gripe about so-called censorship. here is what I didn't approve for this thread so far.

* One said something about Bible not allowing women to lead.

* One listed a bunch of people associated with this and placed an F before each name

* One wanted to use it to "cleanse society" of undesirables

* One took a shot at "white people"

* One decided to go down the RINO path and tried to drag in national politics into it. Something about Romney which has nothing to do with post.

* One tried to drag the Governor's children into it. not happening.

* "Please learn English" to a reader. Really?

* A couple of others I'm still thinking about.

Get the idea?

@10:39am - Everyone is aware. Thanks for stopping by though.

@ August 17 9:35 pm and other idiots who know nothing about monoclonal antibodies:
My elderly old mother contracted covid early this year and was spiraling downward in very a bad way. Two fine brilliant Jackson doctors got her the infusion, Bamlanivimab, and it stopped covid dead in it's tracks. Within 24 hours of the infusion she was feeling remarkably well. Within 48 hours she was feeling almost normal, although a little tired, and she made a complete recovery within days.
Two weeks ago a friend (unvaccinated) contracted covid and was spiraling downward. They received a monoclonal antibody infusion, and it stopped covid's progression immediately. That person recovered fully, quickly, and is now back at work.
Hayseeds like @ 9:35 are going to get folks killed with their idiotic and uninformed posts.

I applaud 10:20 for admitting in a non-hate filled rant that their own scary illness can help others who may be on the fence.

I am vaxxed but for the life of me, I see no value in condescending doctors diatribes or politicians who are have been openly caught in lies calling us names.

But I can see value in openly sharing your own hardship, and I hope it may help others who rightfully so, feel they don't know who to trust as many in positions we formerly revered have shown they are advising based largely on who funds them.
So thank you.

10:50--

I don't ever recall all of the ICU beds being occupied for those reasons. You really can't see the difference?

Let me simplify it for you. When the hospitals are on the verge of failure because 95% of the patients are unvaccinated, some tough decisions may be required for those who chose not to get the shots. If it comes down to it, the medical system shouldn't have to waste precious resources on those who willfully ignored the lifeline available to them.

9:25 I don't think anyone realistically expects COVID to be eradicated. What will happen with a large majority of the population vaccinated is it will turn into an endemic disease with small outbreaks that will rapidly fizzle out.

Just look at the statistics. 98% of COVID positive people are unvaccinated. That is an astounding reduction in vaccinated cases even when you consider Mississippi is just 40% vaccinated. You would expect it to be 40% if the vaccine did nothing, but the data shows a 95% reduction.

Just because it isn't 100% effective doesn't mean we should give up on it. If everyone were vaccinated the spread would be much less and we would be seeing case numbers in the low 100s instead of 4,000+ each day and deaths measured in days between instances rather than rapidly heading back to over 40 every day.

Here's why its not about a virus folks. My wifes company doesn't require vaccination, but their client does. She is allowed to work from home. The client company said "nope, all employees, even remote.".....someone give me a rational explanation.

Thanks control, not safety.

two weeks... flatten the curve... two weeks... wear a mask... when we get a vaccine...

General question: I am assuming ones with only one shot of mRNA are in the "unvaccinated" column, correct?

Woodward has never been humble enough to accept blame for much of anything. I remember when Umc had a shooter scare that turned out not to be anything , they sent text alerts to everyone and she promptly threw some poor soul under the bus instead of doing what a leader does and taking responsibility and saying sorry for scaring the hell out of everyone. Plenty of guilt goes to “providers” for patients being sent home with no directions except “call us if you get worse”. That’s malpractice.
And yes we need therapeutic drugs to be approved by the dragging feds. And yes I’ve seen ivermectin work , too fast for anything else to be given credit for the improvement in symptoms.
Also, if we are going to exclude people from care based on past behavior , you might as well empty out all the beds in the place.

Louanne equals the new Karen.

Ask yourself, who really benefitted the most from ginning up vax conspiracy theories like Bill Gates will control my love child through a 5G cell tower before the vax was released?

Hint - It wasn't Trump.

11:53am

Dr. Woodward said, herself, that the ICU beds and hospital beds in general are usually 95% occupied WITHOUT Covid patients on a regular day.

12:21pm

It is a complete fabrication to state that 98% of Covid cases are in the unvaccinated. We do not track breakthrough cases, unless that person is vaccinated. We can not count unvaccinated cases prior to the release of the vaccine.

So, attempting to state what percentage of Covid cases are vaccinated/unvaccinated is purely a lie. We do not ask the vaccination status of individuals testing because, it does not matter since the health departments DO NOT TRACK the breakthrough cases unless hospitalization or death occurs.

12:41 PM
Depends on which political party is being attacked.

1:34 Dr. Dobbs posted yesterday that during the four weeks of July 20 - August 16 there were 1,129 cases of COVID among the unvaccinated and 56,748 among the vaccinated. That is indeed 98% of cases among the unvaccinated or partially vaccinated. And that is not counting any cases prior to the release of the vaccine, it is only among those in the current surge.

As far as tracking, the state has a record of everybody who has been vaccinated and can match it up with the positive test. They're a lot smarter and capable than you give them credit for.

The numbers are going to be accurate.

1:34: If I understand your comment correctly, basically what you're saying is that it is impossible for anyone to ever prove that delta COVID is overrunning our hospitals, and that its because so many of us are unvaccinated.

So I guess that's checkmate, huh? Congratulations.

@12:41 with the whole two weeks to flatten curve, wear a mask, etc. the reason these things didn’t work is because people only half way did them. People were still so obsessed with their need to go to fart in Walmart and target and wear a mask below their nose, etc. but look at New Zealand and Australia and their zero covid policy versus the US. I so wish I would’ve left here.

2:30 here. In my changes to my post I got the vaccinated/unvaccinated numbers turned around. Even though the mistake should be obvious, the correct numbers are 1.129 cases among the vaccinated and 56,748 among the unvaccinated.

So we, the taxpayers of Mississippi, pay this lady to talk to us in such a sour, condescending manner? That doesn’t sit well with me.

7 Fully Vaxxed Patients die in rare situation

Whatever happened to all the little Green Murder Trendies who were making TikToks of themselves licking toilet seats to spread COVID in order to save Gaia? Yall need to let them know there's a vaccine for that now.

Hmmm, so it's not the creators of vaccine fault ? You know, the vaccine that isn't actually a vaccine ? Vaccines don't spread viruses DOC ! G-damn, how stupid does she think some of us are ?

2:30pm

Just stop lying and making stuff up. There is no tracking of who has been vaccinated. There is no database.

There is no tracking of vaccination status tied to positive pcr tests.

This is one of your best KF. Thanks for opening this discussion with your headline Dr. Woodward: Mississippi Pandemic is "a Disaster of our Own Making." Learned a lot from 10:34 post on monoclonal treatment. At times I agree with those who want the unvaccinated treated after all who have received vaccines. Then I have to wonder if these vaccines will have adverse affects 5-10 years from now because they were not tested for a long period of time. I am fully vaccinated. I am in the "elderly" group. I have had chemo. On my 2nd different cancer but so far, so good. Have not contracted Covid 19 yet. Probably will get booster.

You gave your name and address when you received the vaccine, if you did it at a pharmacy or doctors office your insurance was filed. If there isn’t a database, one can be created in 24 hours. I pretty sure they know who’s who already.

4:38 Not making anything up. If you’re vaccinated you can go here and see where and when you got the shots.

https://www.msdh.ms.gov/msdhsite/_static/14,0,71,969.html

And Dr. Dobbs has said they track tests by person so they can be sure they aren’t counting multiple negative results against the total population.

Just because you don’t have a clue what data the Department of Health collects doesn’t make it false.

Louanne equals the new Karen.

Ask yourself, who really benefitted the most from ginning up vax conspiracy theories like Bill Gates will control my love child through a 5G cell tower before the vax was released?

Hint - It wasn't Trump.

Very nicely done. Took a third read for me to figure out it was parody. Golf clap.

I don't believe talking to an adult audience like a room full of errant third-graders is helpful. Maybe that's just the way she normally talks, but damn. I agreed with pretty much everything she said, in substance, but something in me still wants to tell her to kiss my a*s.

Please, give someone else the microphone. Dr. Woodward can even write the speech. But please let someone else deliver it.

‘’Free” hahahahahahaha

August 18, 2021 at 11:53 AM

Once someone starts making those calls -- regardless of the reasoning -- you are staring into the abyss.

The hospital has empty, open hospital beds that are unavailable due to a severe staffing shortage. Vaccination mandate of employees ought to help that shortage grow...

@2:06PM
Depends on which political party?
Why do you insist on believing there’s a difference between Democrats and Republicans?
Neither party cares about you—see, there’s no difference at all.