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>https://www.mississippifreepress.org/7014/after-big-thanksgiving-dinners-plan-small-christmas-funerals-health-experts-warn/
>“Please don’t go to Black Friday. Those big gatherings the day after Thanksgiving are going to a disaster for potential transmission. We can’t keep doing those big gatherings and be perpetually surprised at where the cases are coming from,” Byers said.
>Mississippi State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs is warning that the holidays could become even deadlier unless Mississippians avoid large Thanksgiving gatherings and take masking and social distancing more seriously.
>Hospital capacity to accept new patients is crumbling, Dobbs said. He cited a conversation last week with a physician who had decided to send a Mississippi patient to a hospital in Pensacola, Fla., after failing to get them in a bed anywhere in Mississippi.
>That doctor, Dobbs said, settled on Pensacola after also trying and failing to find beds for the patient in the Alabama cities of Birmingham and Mobile. He urged Mississippians to exercise caution, not just when it comes to avoiding the virus, but more generally.
>“Be careful, because there’s nowhere for you to go if you have a car wreck,” the state health officer said. “Unfortunately, we’re not having a collective appreciation for how serious this is. Please protect yourself, protect your family, and please protect the vulnerable. Because it’s going to be a rough few weeks.”

is this real? how fucked are we this winter? are there really no beds now in all of these states?