Ohio is using the coronavirus as an excuse to cut off access to abortions. In another effort to stop abortions in the state, Ohio lawmakers are using concerns regarding the limited amount of medical supplies in hospitals during the coronavirus pandemic as a reason for women to not end pregnancies. Ohio’s Attorney General Dave Yost has ordered healthcare providers in the state to stop all “nonessential and elective surgical abortions” referring to federal guidelines in place to help conserve needed medical supplies, Vox reported. “If you or your facility do not immediately stop performing non-essential or elective surgical abortions in compliance with the [health director’s] order, the Department of Health will take all appropriate measures,” Yolt’s letter to providers reads.
Trump's continued use of the term "China virus" is fueling a rise in hate crimes against Asian people. A study by researchers in the San Francisco State University Asian American Studies program found that “Coronavirus discrimination news increased by 50% from 93 articles in week 1 to 140 stories in week 4.” Lead researcher Russell Jeung told The New York Times that this was “the tip of the iceberg,” since the study tracked only incidents serious enough to draw media coverage.
In the great ole state of Texas, the Lt. Governor said that patriotic grandparents should be willing to die for capitalism. Dan Patrick, best known for blaming everything except guns for gun deaths, went on Tucker Carlson’s show to plead with the Democratic Party to allow elderly Americans out into public, along with the rest of the American consumers, to risk their lives for capitalism. Lt. Gov. Patrick wants to protect the American way of life—even if that means killing yourself and creating a historic crisis to our healthcare infrastructure. The money quote:
"And you know Tucker, no one reached out to me and said, as a senior citizen, ‘Are you willing to take a chance on your survival, in exchange for keeping the America that all America loves, for your children and grandchildren?’ And if that’s the exchange, I’m all in."An Arizona man died after mistaking a cleaning chemical for an unproven coronavirus treatment.
The man and his wife drank a fish tank cleaner containing a chemical derivative of chloroquine, which Trump has touted as a treatment despite a lack of scientific evidence. The man’s wife, told reporters that she and her husband decided to ingest the aquarium product after hearing Trump on TV refer to two anti-malaria drugs — chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine — as a potential “game changer” in the fight against COVID-19. “I saw it sitting on the back shelf and thought, ‘hey, isn’t that the stuff they’re talking about on TV?’” the woman said. The couple, both in their 60s, had not been diagnosed with COVID-19, but the woman said they were worried of contracting the disease and had taken the aquarium product as a preventative measure.
A 74-year-old grandfather from Kansas has died from coronavirus after being turned away by doctors and denied a test three times because he 'wasn't sick enough' during agonizing week of 'immeasurable suffering'. Dennis Wilson, of Lenexa, Kansas, first became ill on March 12 and visited medical professionals three times, but was not tested for the coronavirus. Wilson, who had did not have enough symptoms for the exam, finally became so ill he was rushed by ambulance to a hospital in Overland Park. After Wilson was hospitalized and tested positive for the virus, he spent 'a week of immeasurable suffering' before dying, his wife Joanna said. Now, she herself has been forced into quarantine and has to plan his funeral from home.
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