Why don’t you listen to what the doctors and nurses themselves are saying? My sister is a physician, and she went from being a “FluBro” to deeply concerned as soon as her hospital was flooded with COVID-19 patients.
Americans might be more inclined to take this situation seriously if we weren’t being fed endless streams of bulls*t, as usual.
Let us know what’s actually happening, not what that Deep-State prick Fauci’s models say.
At my closest hospital, it is illegal (has been at least since Jan 1st, AKA pre-Wuhan Virus) to film, video or photograph in the hospital. Signs everywhere.
Someone close to me, who works at a hospital, in San Diego, says the patient census is lower now than it has been in many years. All elective procedures are canceled in anticipation of being flooded with virus patients. But the flood hasn’t happened.
Independent media and first amendment auditors are looking like the true heroes in the pandemic reporting area.
The Detroit area is NOT calm at all from nurse reports. It is a war zone.
They already wrote the story weeks ago. And, don’t let the facts get in the way of a good story...
People don’t trust the News.
People don’t trust the Government.
People don’t trust the Corporations.
People don’t trust foreign countries.
People have been told that everyone is entitled to their own “truth”. So no one really knows what to think about anything.
Not a good thing.
I was surprised to hear that nurses were being furloughed or laid off in some cities. Also to learn that the anticipated influx was not always appearing.
During the San Francisco earthquake in 89 the media's focus on the Marina District and the downed section of the Nimitz Freeway led cities to the south to defer asking for assistance. They told us later that they believed what they were seeing had also occurred between them and San Francisco.
We held staff over at Naval Hospital Oakland in anticipation of casualties that never came. For me, one lesson learned is that it is always best to increase your perspective and look beyond what the major medial is feeding.
4/3/2020 Sarasota Memorial furlouging staff:
Thanks for posting. Very revealing
The concept of ‘war zone’ in the hospitals is simply being misused to to create more panic in almost every US location. New York is the epicenter of this and no doubt is the exception as some hospitals are at or near capacity. Especially in the ICU. The unique nature of this has no doubt created a high level of intensity in the hospital with the incredible abundance of caution being used to protect staff and manage the situation. It has to be horrible and I respect everyone stepping into harms way. It has to be awful, even in situations where the number of patients is not high. There has to be palpable fear in the air about what is happening and what could be still to come. That said, the patient load is likely below normal on most of the US.
Great post! Thanks.
I’m going to do a drive by through some local hospitals and check things out myself.
My nephew’s wife is the Infectious Disease head of a hospital in Westchester County north of Manhattan. Yes, she is pretty busy & they do have a number of Covid-19 patients. But they do have spare beds and spare ICU beds as well. Some of their management discussions have been around the question “where have the regular patients they normally see gone; they are somehow just not coming in and/or their doctors are not sending them in.” Is her hospital overwhelmed? No.
The media to stay relevant has to try to keep everyone hysterical over this.
I do believe certain hospitals are overwhelmed in the NY boroughs with Covid 19 patients and other hospitals in more affluent areas or do not have an overage of obese people or primarily for elective surgery are well below capacity because elective surgery has been cancelled. The big metric for me is the largest temp hospital built by the Corps of Engineers in the Javits Center exclusively for Covid 19 patients with 2500 beds. Maybe eventually it will get patients but right now although recently opened there are no patients.I really do think NYC is stressed in certain areas and Cuomo right now is creating the impression that the city is overwhelmed everywhere. I do think it is in certain areas but until I see the Javits Center start to fill with patients I don’t think it is critical everywhere in the city
She’s hawt.
BTW, I drive by hospitals everyday and all day.
Besides the parking lots being 1/2 empty, which seems improbable on a normal, there are very few ambulances in front of the emergency room.
The tents are sitting there ready and unused, at this time..../s
They are showing the same I see with ambulances.
They are oddly parked but, not in front of the E-room
Orange man bad, Orange man bad, Orange man bad.