Posted on 09/15/2021 3:55:59 AM PDT by MtnClimber
At long last, someone has taken a deep dive into those numbers and the reality is very different from what the media present.
One of the biggest stories in the media concerns hospitals filled to overflowing with COVID patients. However, as an article in The Atlantic (of all places!) informs us, these numbers are misleading. Almost half of the people in the hospital with COVID are either mildly symptomatic or asymptomatic. In other words, to anyone running around screaming, “We’re all gonna die!” the answer is “No, we’re not.”
The biggest story is that of a 73-year-old Alabama man who purportedly died from a treatable heart attack after dozens of hospitals across a three-state region turned him away owing to the fact that their ICUs were overflowing with COVID patients. I say purportedly out of caution because there’s almost no confirming evidence other than the family’s say-so. The hospital to which he was originally taken confirmed only that “he needed medical services that were not available” at that hospital. Moreover, he eventually ended up in a hospital in Mississippi, 200 miles from his home.
Those two bits of evidence do indicate that his family is accurately describing what happened. On the other hand, we also know that hospital staffers, especially nurses, are quitting in droves because they refuse to comply with their hospitals’ “get vaccinated or get fired” mandates. That means that the man could have been rejected from several hospitals not because the beds were full but because the staffing rosters were empty.
The reason I’m casting a teeny bit of shade on that tragic story is that The Atlantic, one of the bastions of the Deep State establishment, has a rather interesting story. It turns out that a deep-dive study that looked at the data
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
States aren’t the only things in need of an audit.
So is every CoupFlu stat.
We now have a de facto NHS.
If folks unfamiliar with how that works, read the British tabs for a preview of coming attractions.
Three guesses where the biggest tax hike in 70 years that was just passed is going.
I know they inflate the numbers for money and fear so people will get a vaccine. A vaccine that this administration said they would never take because Trump made. Now they want to mandate it.
Same as schools getting more fed money for kids needing assistance.
In for elective knee surgery? Oh look, covid antibodies...call him/her a covid patient.
“We’re all gonna die!”
Prove Me Wrong.
Exactly this. You come in for something unrelated, maybe to have a cut stitched up, they test, and boom! Covid patient!
“ Why would asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic people be in the hospital with this?”
To prevent outbreaks in the hospitals, it is common that anyone being admitted, for any reason, is tested for COVID. The universal screening uncovers those asymptomatic or mild cases - admitted with COVID, not for it.
Others have commented on the economic incentives, that play a part as well.
The more tests more cases....schools will drive the case numbers up...
Should just call their doc and let him help you decide if hospital is warranted.
My mother in law has been in the “Covid” ward of a large Cleveland area hospital for a couple of months - with cancer.
The highest number of Covid patients has been FOUR in all that time.
Four.
…hardly over-flowing….
“Just in it for the $$$ without any concern over how it’ll affect their patients.“
So much truth in one short sentence.
God bless your family!! Congratulations!
Covid cases are trailing off, everyone can calm down: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailycases
“Why would asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic people be in the hospital with this?“
Normally, they don’t. But folks have been propagandized by the media and our politicians 24/7 for almost 2 years now. - Told to FEAR FOR YOUR LIVES!!!
It’s sad that so many, so easily buy into what these known liars tell them.
“Covid cases are trailing off, everyone can calm down“
Who can afford to calm down when it’s: “TAKE the shot or lose your job, your home, your ability to feed and care for your family, etc…”???
I was never afraid of the silly virus…
It’s what our government wants to do to us that is scary. For REAL scary.
Yep, not wants to, but is doing.
“Yep, not wants to, but is doing.“
Yes, INDEED!!
So...my friend’s breast cancer surgery was cancelled due to covid, but 1/2 the people are mild.
Killing more innocent people for political purposes. This shouldn’t surprise anyone, we’ve seen how heartless and how little the democrat politicians care about Americans.
The democrats are communists, communists have killed millions of their own citizens for as long as they’ve been around.
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