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On 10/29/2020 at 12:44 PM, Brisketexan said:

If you've been following the news, shit is bad.  Really bad.  There's lots they need, but there's only so much regular folks can do.  But here's a thing you can do, and they desperately need it: please donate to their food bank.  They are just about out of money and out of food.  And the people of El Paso have never needed it more:  https://elpasoansfightinghunger.org/donate

El Paso is good people, and a lot of them are hard working folks who make enough, but not a lot more than that.  And even without accounting for ordered business limitations, because people are taking the COVID surge there seriously, work (and thus pay) is taking a nosedive for a lot of them right now.  They need our help. 

This is what we fucking do, and now is when we fucking do it.

So let's help our fellow Texans in their hour of need.  I'd sure appreciate it, and they will too.

Will match up to $1k total more.  Post your screenshots by end of day brothers.  Thanks for sharing Brisket

 

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We’ll count it.  
$505 plus Kyle who didn’t show how much.  Will assume he’s another $100.  $605 due
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If you’re feeling it, we kicked things off with $200, but he the wife do it from her device, so I ain’t gots no screenshot.

Seriously, this is awesome, people. We need so much more of this.
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3 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:


If you’re feeling it, we kicked things off with $200, but he the wife do it from her device, so I ain’t gots no screenshot.

Seriously, this is awesome, people. We need so much more of this.

On it.  Definitely will honor that.  

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Just in case you were wondering how bad it is in El Paso; BBC.com has an article about it on their website, so the international media is paying attention

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54966876

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Overflowing hospitals

With cases going up by more than a thousand every day in El Paso, some 76,000 people have now been infected. That's about the same number of confirmed cases as in the whole of Greece or Libya.

Data shows 1,120 El Paso residents are currently in hospital with the virus, and this number is expected to rise. That means that of all the Covid patients in hospital across the state of Texas, one in six is in El Paso, according to the latest figures. A total of 782 people are known to have died.

Both hospitals and staff are struggling to cope. An El Paso University Medical Center spokesman said the hospital recognised the "physical and emotional" toll the pandemic was taking on healthcare workers.

As officials race to keep up with the rapidly increasing number of sick people, El Paso city's convention centre was recently converted into a makeshift hospital to provide extra beds. Some facilities are so overrun that patients are being airlifted to other cities in the state.

On Monday, El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego said the county had opened 500 extra hospital beds so far, but at the rate the virus was spreading, those beds would be full by next week.

 

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On 10/29/2020 at 6:02 PM, BrazilHorn said:

Done. Donation in. 
thanks Brisket for calling attention to their site. 
(was weird to see the receipt pop up aa BrisketTexan’s Pappy Van Winkle fund)

Done.  But my receipt was pretty normal. No Offshore Van Winkle stuff at all.

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