http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/08/chicago_hospital_overwhelmed_with_gunshot_victims_stops_accepting_new_patients_.html
It was a routine report, meaning, it happens so often that every weekend has large numbers of shooting victims. It's like an El Paso event of its own, weekend after weekend, after weekend, and its totals certainly top those of El Paso when taken in sum.
Yet it doesn't get the wall-to-wall press coverage this freak from Dallas, and his copycat savage in Dayton get. It's just blue-city business as usual, another weekend, another slew of killings, and another hospital that is booked solid from gunshot victims, can't take any more, try the next hospital.
That's sorry stuff. Wonder why the Democrats whipping up the El Paso outrage for political gain don't like to mention it?
So while all the press attention was on the shocking sudden massacres in El Paso and Dayton, which killed 29 innocent people, something in some ways even bigger and uglier was going on in Chicago:
Chicago's Mount Sinai Hospital temporarily stopped accepting patients Sunday morning because they were at capacity following a series of shootings, a hospital official said.
The hospital went "on bypass" in the early morning, said Roberta Rakove, Senior VP for External Affairs.
Hospitals use the term "on bypass" when they stop accepting ambulance runs and those ambulances are diverted to other trauma centers. Mount Sinai Hospital is one of five trauma centers in Chicago, according to Rakove. ...
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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