CAMERON COUNTY HAS A COVID CRISIS WHICH THE COUNTY COMMISSION IS NOT REPORTING

Several days ago, the NYT reported on the rapid increase in Covid cases.  Today a very close friend of mine tested positive for Covid.  His job puts him around a lot of people.  He is fully vaccinated. I believe this is his third and worst time. 

We were close enough for me to have been exposed.  I waited until day three.  We knew from experience he would test positive.  That happened today.

His doctor told him he was case number 6 today.  It does not sound like a lot, but that is one doctor in one day.

The VA has so many cases they ran out of the current medicine used to treat Covid.  I do not fault them for this.  Covid is on a rise people could not have predicted.

I was sent to Urgent Care because the doctors at the VA clinic had already treated the maximum number of walk-ins allowed in any given day.  I was told Covid is a problem.

I tested negative.  My hormones play tricks on me, so it was a 50/50 chance.

At the clinic I was told, they are seeing a lot of Covid patients.

What people do not calculate is the amount of work lost, for which they may not be paid.  They do not calculate the impact on the family. They do not calculate the number of people in the family who may be in a high-risk group.

So, we may not lose a million people this time, but the impact on the economy could be massive.

WHY IS IT NOT BEING REPORTED?

Locally they will not report it unless Donald Trump givens them the money.  They are too cowardly to raise taxes to protect us. 

The disruption to the economy will be real.  Some will die, but that is something Cameron County Commissioners Court can live with.