Political Quotes

“I would like to just say a few words about what we are going through and what we are experiencing. I can only give you my experiences back home in West Virginia. I have been on conference calls because we are social distancing, as we all are. I have talked to the nurses' association, the medical association, and the hospital association. The main concern we have right now is of our medical providerships' being stable enough and protected enough so, if need be, they can continue to take care of us. Right now, they are scared to death because they are not getting the protective equipment they need. They don't have the personal protection equipment, such as the masks or the shields or the gowns--all of the equipment that a first responder or a medical provider should have. That is what we are fighting for right now. Also, we have rural hospitals and rural clinics throughout all of America--West Virginia is mostly all rural--and they are all scared to death that they are not going to have the finances with which to stay afloat. The proposal that we have right now, that they are working on--that both sides are working on--is inadequate and insufficient. Mitch McConnell's proposal falls short of delivering the protection the medical providerships need. They talk about the economy and the recovery of this economy, but we need to find a treatment for the virus as we know it.…”