Posted on 12/26/2021 4:39:38 PM PST by SeekAndFind
News out of Vermont paints a bleak picture of just how harmful the collective psychosis of COVID hysteria is, a phenomenon that seems isolated to heavily Democrat areas.
For years, fear-mongering from the government and national media has pushed people to detach themselves from reality when it comes to assessing risk profiles regarding the coronavirus. That’s now playing out in the form of completely asymptomatic individuals rushing to jam up emergency rooms in Vermont. Though, as we’ll see, this is hardly limited to the Green Mountain State.
"The emergency department at the Rutland Regional Medical Center has been overwhelmed with asymptomatic folks."https://t.co/aLykD6UslX
— Anthony LaMesa (@ajlamesa) December 25, 2021
Some Vermonters who are able to find antigen tests and then test positive are clogging up emergency rooms.
The emergency department at the Rutland Regional Medical Center has been overwhelmed with asymptomatic folks.
Dr. Rick Hildebrant is RRMC’s medical director. He says some people who test positive with a rapid test go to the emergency room looking for a PCR test.
The Vermont Hospital Association says it’s hearing similar stories from other parts of the state…
…“It’s not so much the beds that are the precious resource, it’s the staff at this time. So we have to have some of our clinical staff providing care to those people and they can’t provide care to the folks in the ER,” Hildebrant explained.
This isn’t the overwhelming of hospitals we were promised by the left. Rather, it’s the exact opposite, with people who aren’t even sick showing up to take resources away because they’ve been convinced that COVID is still highly deadly for 45-year-olds in good health. Even older people who are asymptomatic should not be going to the ER. Rather, they should live their life. Unless they actually get sick, what is there to treat?
Yet, the cynical move by Democrats to cause so much fear around COVID has pushed a large segment of the population into what can only be called some form of mental illness. Get a load of these responses I chronicled a few days ago and tell me we don’t have a problem on our hands.
I don’t think we’ve come to terms yet with the fact that 40% of the country is mentally ill. pic.twitter.com/ZWM3fYqUJy
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) December 23, 2021
Meanwhile, in the blue bastion that is New York City, the police are having to be called in because people are mobbing COVID testing centers. Why they are doing so is anyone’s guess.
Cops called as NYC crowd descends for coveted free COVID tests https://t.co/3hh80iLvG9 pic.twitter.com/rSnTlin7gM
— New York Post (@nypost) December 25, 2021
I’m going to make a generalized statement that may not be true in every single case but is certainly true in most cases: If you are healthy enough to go join a mob of people begging for free COVID tests, then you are healthy enough to not need a COVID test. The testing of asymptomatic and extremely mild cases of the coronavirus serves no legitimate purpose. And how many people who weren’t even infected are now infected for interacting with that crowd?
This stuff needs to stop, and it’s not going to stop until Democrats from the president on down start telling the truth about the risks of COVID for different demographics. Take another look at that picture in the Post’s article. Many of those people look to be under 50, and none of them appear to be suffering from a debilitating illness. Yet, they are acting as if someone is handing out solid gold bars. It’s insanity and completely unnecessary.
Lastly, given the apparent mildness of Omicron, which is quickly becoming the dominant variant in the United States, rushing to get tested while presenting no symptoms becomes an even dumber move. Yet, the White House is now going to send out tests direct to households anyway. What’s that going to do to emergency rooms, when a rush of “positive” tests starts happening and people freak out?
All of this was and is preventable, but it would require having people with actual leadership skills at the top instead of a bunch of cowards mostly concerned with covering their own backsides. Thus, the hysteria will continue. It’s too important to the left’s cause.
These asymptomatic COVID positive folks should come here instead. Lot’s of opportunities to gab with like minded souls.
And in the meantime, these morons keep on blaming the unvaxxed.
The next generation of vaccine will come in the form of Koolaid.
This is funnier than a rubber crutch!
Can’t wait til Biden’s test kits flood the whole United States!
Maybe, just maybe, this will point out that it’s time to get over the mass hysteria. (Nah.. probably won’t.)
gomers want drugs
“liberals”, Commies, whatever are just a bunch of OCD freaks and most of them are hypochondriacs! Trust me, I know!
Cowards covering their own Backsides.
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Yup.
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Absolute INSANITY
Fanned by the Media,
Promoted by GOVERNMENT and
CREATED by men bent
on Genocide.
They are going to have to tell people with positive at home tests to just stay at home, don’t go to hospital, don’t go to clinic, and don’t call doctor.
Maybe they can set up a website where you can enter your positive test information, answer a few questions, get some direction on what to do, and most importantly, some “attaboys” and “Great Job!” encouragement stickers and images for social media posting.
And they’ll have to stop handing out all those at home tests.
They really should have thought of this beforehand.
RE: They are going to have to tell people with positive at home tests to just stay at home, don’t go to hospital, don’t go to clinic, and don’t call doctor.
Yeah? What if you REALLY are serious and REALLY need to go to the hospital?
“Yeah? What if you REALLY are serious and REALLY need to go to the hospital?”
*****
If they have to ration care, it will probably be based on insurance plan.
They shouted FIRE in a crowded theater and
there will be hell to pay for those responsible
either now or in the heafter
it is our duty to hold them accountable now BEFORE
they can cause further harm to the innocent
justice delayed is justice denied and
we will all be held to account for our inaction
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I wouldn’t go to the hospital if they paid me too. They will kill you in there.
Pure blood.
I spent the past 2 days mostly alone due to an in-law who demanded we all submit to a mail order antigen test.
She was told where to put the kit set aside for me.
and the insurance companies stroke out...
The media, politicians and medical establishment have created a monster with all their fear mongering.
I like that,,,
Well, when you need emergency medical care, yeah, it would be a good idea to contact a plumber I suppose.
I work in an ER. Yeah, you’re dead as soon as you come
through the door. Never mind I see doctors and nurses working tirelessly to heal and treat the sick and injured.
But they’re really killing people for money.
BTW, who is paying this blood money?
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