Olympic gold medalist Mary Lou Retton has been battling severe pneumonia in a hospital intensive care unit, daughters of the famed American gymnast said.
A Tuesday post on a crowd-funding page by Retton’s daughter, McKenna Kelley, characterized the Hall of Fame gymnast as being critically ill. Another daughter confirmed the illness to NBC News.
On the crowd-funding site, McKenna Kelley wrote: “My amazing mom, Mary Lou, has a very rare form of pneumonia and is fighting for her life. She is not able to breathe on her own. She’s been in the ICU for over a week now.”
American healthcare is in utter shambles when the family of an icon like Mary Lou has to gofundme for her care.
I hope she makes it through this. 🤞
I dunno if you’ve noticed, but America’s been in shambles a looong time. Education, Literacy, Healthcare, Economic mobility, Gini coefficient, life expectancy — almost every statistic related to standard of living and quality of life for the people (aka the working class) — fell well behind the rest of the developed world by the end of the 20th.
At this point it’s basically a failed state — just a bunch of corporate oligarchs in a trench-coat masquerading as a democracy — that’s halfway through the transition from oligarchy to fascist dictatorship, with both religion and conservatism leading the charge; as is tradition.
Except there is head nodding at working class people being “without”. Mary Lou Retton is a famous celebrity. The assumption is that fame equates to elite status with things the working class does not have. The shock is that even fame can’t get you health insurance.
@WhatAmLemmy It’s Cory’s enshitification applied large, and a lot of us have noticed.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification