Posted on 08/31/2021 5:28:56 PM PDT by Nextrush
Idaho Gov. Brad Little described a "heartbreaking" scene at a St. Luke's intensive care unit he visited Monday evening---an ICU nearly filled with unvaccinated patients who contracted COVID-19. Two of them were pregnant, and the average age of the patients was 43, Little said. All were struggling to breathe, and health care workers are "exhausted."
Little on Tuesday announced he will deploy up to 150 National Guard members for short-staffed health care facilities. He also secured another 200 contract workers to be available to the state through a contract with U.S. General Services Administration, and a 20-person Department of Defense response team to be sent to North Idaho, where Little said there's the greatest need....
"I hope it'll be enough," Little said, to avoid crisis standards of care. But there's only one real solution, he added.
"We need more Idahoans to choose to receive the safe, effective COVID-19 vaccine," Little said, "It is our ticket out of the pandemic."...
(Excerpt) Read more at idahostatesman.com ...
St. Luke’s and St. Alphonsus medical systems both now have a “vaccine” mandate for employees. I’m sure that has no bearing on their staffing levels. /s
How many got sick after vaxxing? But more to the point how many quit their jobs.
Ironically right across the border in Oregon hospitals can’t force employees to be vaxxed. Its embedded in law.
And on the east side of the state is Montana where vaccination requirements for employment were outlawed earlier this year.
Genomic epidemiology of novel coronavirus - Global subsampling
People are resisting. I drove past a group of protesting healthcare workers a couple weeks ago.
Niece in Idaho says it is all overblown. Yet another attack on a Red State.
Baldwin wrote:
“If you’re in the hospital and only had one shot you’re counted as unvaxxed. If you had two shots but were less than two weeks from the second shot you are counted as unvaxxed. If you had two shots but the second shot was more than three months ago you are counted as unvaxxed. Those are the rules the CDC uses to determine who is and who isn’t vaxxed in the hospital.”
So, a very narrow definition of vaxxed.
Ping...
Try and look at it another way.
Profitable hospitals, even non-profit ones that can make money and roll it back into operations to buy modern equipment, update facilities, raise salaries, and hire more people are what has given us, even with its flaws, the best health care system in the world.
This is a country of 330+ million people. This isn’t Norway. Even with all our flaws and the high cost, there is nowhere else in the world I would rather be if I needed medical attention. And there is a reason for that.
In WWII, we had a major problem at the beginning of the war and leading up to it. We were unprepared. We didn’t have enough equipment, even obsolete equipment to fight. There was a man hired, Willam Knudsen (an unsung hero who is unknown to most Americans today) who was tasked with getting industry on board for a war we knew was coming.
Bill Knudsen had what sounded like an impossible task with goals that seemed ludicrously out of reach, this many airplanes per month, that many hulls on the ways, machine guns, bomb sights, life rafts, etc.
He went directly to Roosevelt and said that the only way we would ever be able to achieve any of those goals was to unleash the massive power of the profit motive. He was fought tooth and nail by the likes of Harold Ickes Sr. (Yes, the father of the Clinton Administration Ickes, and both of them anti-American scumbag politicians in the modern Democrat mold) but Knudsen convinced a reluctant Roosevelt and an actively hostile Ickes that it was the only way, to unleash the power of a capitalistic profit motive albeit with a government bent.
We see how that turned out. We were able to unleash the capitalistic beast on our enemies through the efforts of Bill Knudsen, Henry Kaiser, and so many others. Our military equipment was the best, our military was the best fed, best supplied, and we had everything in abundance we could send to the Soviets and England so they could fight effectively too. (This is brilliantly explained in the excellent book “Freedom’s Forge” by Arthur Herman)
The point is, the profit motive is of immense value in health care. Sure, we pay more. Sure, we could find ways to pare costs and so on. But almost anywhere in this country, if you need an MRI scan, you could get one in days, if not a week or two (at least before this pandemic BS)
There is a reason our cousins to the north who can afford to came down here to the USA for health care. If you needed an MRI scan up there in Canada, where they outlawed private MRI imaging centers, it could be many months. You could be dead or have a cancer spread beyond helping by the time you got on the table.
FWIW, I heard that Canada had to change it’s draconian policies and allow standalone imaging centers to be opened, which improved access for Canadian patients, but...they had to be dragged kicking and screaming to do it.
We don’t have that problem here...yet. And that is because the profit motive, while not as cuddly as a sincere wish to help your fellow man, is far more effective at delivering goods and services than any kind of altruism. On this, Ayn Rand was spot on.
I would avoid turning this into a class warfare/greed thing. There is function behind it. And it serves a valuable purpose, as much as Leftists and class warriors decry it. (Not at all saying you are of that bent, but there are many who are, even on this forum)
If you get well and leave the hospital alive, you’re vaxed.
If you die, you’re unvaxed.
Sheesh do I have to update you guys daily?😁
The most important piece of data missing from your post is how many have 1 and vaccine shots.
With that information you actually could come to some relative, and important conclusions.
Idaho units tend to be smaller. My brother says at one long term care facility with 8 patients, 7 are vaccinated. For some reason they are being admitted with a positive test result in spite of being asymptomatic. Can’t imagine why....
It’s true. I live in Kootenai county Idaho and don’t know of anyone who has died since the plandemic began. I know of one person who was hospitalized, don’t know if there were underlying factors. I do know of at least one who died as a result of receiving the “vaccine”. Little as well as rino’s Simpson (voted for the January 6th commission), Crapo and Risch (voted for the sham infrastructure bill) need to be primaried.
KEEP IDAHO RED!
Thats how I was raised.
I don’t believe the mRNA shots increase the number of infected directly...but may indirectly contribute by allowing people to take risks they would not otherwise take.
That said, the elephant in the room is the mRNA shots do not work against the ever mutating virus (mutating faster than flu or any other I’m aware of, almost as if it was designed to mutate). After the shot people still get sick and still get others sick.
While I believe most, certainly not all, in the ICU are unvaxxed, the media and the “opposition” Republicans are derelict in not publicly demanding answers to these questions:
1. Why is this virus mutating so often and so many ways?
2. Why are the vaxxed still getting sick?
The American people need to know.
It’s apparent the Covid pandemic is not over, and is unlikely to ever be.
One of the things that has made this country great is our work ethic as Americans, and a system that allows us to profit from it.
You can work as hard as you want and profit from it, or as little as you want...and don’t. It is indeed a choice.
One of the things that I have loved about this country is just that. The freedom to choose, and the opportunities do do so. And there are people who seem hell bent on destroying that.
While I believe most, certainly not all, in the ICU are unvaxxed..
Just look at Israel....the most “vax”d country in the world. Their ‘vax’d are majority of who are being hospitalized. They’re reporting honestly.
And, their hospitalized numbers oddly seem to correlate with their ‘vax’ rates. 🤔
This ScamDemIc would’ve been long gone, had we not locked down, masked up and tried to ‘vax’ out of a pandemic....something real virologists/scientists/doctors warned about NOT doing, last year :-(
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