ABC:
Long before hospitals were using liquid oxygen to help save the lives of COVID-19 patients, Orlando Utilities Commission has relied on the substance to help purify and clean its water.
Liquid oxygen is now in short supply due to a record number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients, and OUC said its supply is running low. That forced the utility company on Friday to call on its water customers to cut back on their water usage immediately.
Basically:
Florida’s our test of the theory that Americans vastly overestimate the capacity of middle-class wealth to insulate them from the consequences of living in a failing society.
— Mass for Shut-ins (Podcast) (@edburmila) August 20, 2021
The really rich will be fine. People who think they’re rich because they retired to Ft. Myers, hoo boy.