So here’s Stevens County with a bunch of EMS providers trying to provide services with little/no revenue, making it (kind of) work with a volunteer model that is collapsing, and with county commissioners and voters who don’t want to fund things but want the things anyway 12/

And the locals won't volunteer b/c they're too busy getting led around by Youtube and Facebook and Fox etc. etc. so the free labor that makes their low-tax system work is getting dried up by the same partisanship that attracted them to Stevens County in the first place 13/

My best guess for the future is that fire departments will still have money (because people live out in the woods) and they’ll provide wildly subpar service because that’s all they’ll be able to afford, and people with heart attacks etc. will die because the response time takes so long 14/

There are dynamics re: population, tax levels, provider availability etc. that hurt EMS in any rural community but I wonder if in a place like Stevens County, this is a big part of the mix. Some locals don't want stuff to work if doing so would require outside help /end bsky.app/profile/dani...