How long before you call 911 and hear elevator music interspersed with a robot voice saying: “Your call is very important to us, please stay on the line and an operator will be with you shortly”?

That’s what we’re coming to. Some places are there already. Next time you have a medical emergency, you may not get the treatment you need. After waiting for your 911 call to be answered, you might wait a long time for an ambulance. A health-care professional who worked in hospitals around the country for the past few years is telling me that our emergency rooms are so jammed, patients they used to be able to save are dying.

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Scott Shallcross
Scott Shallcross

My friends who are frontline doctors and nurses are exhausted and demoralized. Readers of the Conwaydailysun should not forget the damaging misinformation spread by McLaughlin concerning Covid. This column is truly hypocritical.

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