I had some surgery in the middle of the “pandemic”. I was in the hospital for a week. On the last night, they whisked me out of my room and moved me into a room in the COVID ward.
Several doctors have told me they did that so they could collect federal money because I was a COVID patient.
That explains why, as a VA guy shipped to Vanderbilt's hospital for specialized surgery, I saw the hallways lined with gurneys of ailing people. They were funneled from Nashville General and others while the money trough was open. At least I learned my immune system deflects Covid after several of those patients coughed it right at me.