It would be, if that statement were true, except that the statement is a lie, and as such doesn't epitomize anything but a hysterical rant unsupported by fact.
Even as your other link showed, the hospitals which lost power lost power incorrectly, because of a failure of process -- NOT because they cut off power to the hospitals to give it to the stadium.
Further, your original link explains, and I assume you read the entire article, that the stadium would be highly unlikely to be affected by a rolling blackout because it gets multiple power feeds, which would have blackouts at different times.
So all the Stadium had to do was ask that the rolling blackouts be coordinated so that all their feeds were not out at the same time.
If the hospitals in question had also paid for multiple feeds, they might not have gone black even when the company screwed up. For the record, my company has a lot of sensitive electronics equipment, so we pay for dual feeds. Occasionally one is scheduled to be off, and we are informed ahead of time so we can shut down sensitive equipment or put it on an internal UPS for the duration.
But going back to the main point, there is absolutely NO evidence, because it simply is NOT TRUE, that anybody made any decision to take power from a hospital and give it to the stadium.
On the greater point -- I agree with making sure the stadium had power at all times. That's a major event that the city went to considerable trouble to obtain; you screw with that, nobody comes anymore and you lose whatever it was that you thought was important enough to get.
I would hope that even if you think the preliminaries aren't important, that you would understand the impossibility of your local utility doing a rolling blackout of the stadium during the superbowl when hundreds of millions of people are watching a game.
Yes, that stadium is more important than the few thousand people at a time that could otherwise get power if you had perfect ability to give out power and you took it from the stadium, which of course isn't the case anyway.
Because in fact a rolling blackout is a blunt instrument, not a finely tuned process. They aren't cutting off "just enough" people, they just shut down chunks of usage that they can manage. my guess is that you are probably running at under 98% capacity when doing the rolling blackouts, so the .05% capacity used by the stadium is dwarfed by the 2% that simply is going to waste because we can't control a blackout to the level of individual houses.
If we had a perfect, smart grid system, the "rolling blackout" would be replaced by a house-by-house power limitation, and houses would be programmed to provide power first to critical needs like heat and refrigeration, and homeowners would then be able to program what their priorities were for power.
In other words, instead of cutting a house to 0 for 15 minutes, and then they go back to full power for 45, you'd just cut everybody's house's total power avialability by 25%, and let them decide what things they want to blackout. The house could do their own rolling blackout of individual appliances if it wanted.
The problem was caused by the Government, and it was the people who did the suffering.
When people accept the rolling blackouts, the Gov't can use any excuse to control our power.
So, it was an error of the process that the hospitals lost power, and it was an error in construction that led to pipes freezing and both errors were paid for by the people, not those making the errors.
In the real world, people are fired for these kind of errors.
“It would be, if that statement were true, except that the statement is a lie, and as such doesn’t epitomize anything but a hysterical rant unsupported by fact.”
You seem to be the one ranting in this with accusations.
The fact does not lie there were blackouts of what most normal people would consider to certainly be within the most critical of places where ordered blackouts should not be made, i.e hospitals.
The other fact is that a game venue, that’s right a GAME venue, did not suffer a blackout.
If those facts don’t cause alarm in the immorality of this situation to you, you deserve to be back on your Gulag job.