Posted on 08/15/2020 5:35:24 PM PDT by george76
Chicago invested nearly $120 million on four separate emergency coronavirus facilities in the spring that ended up treating a total of 38 patients, bringing the effective price tag of the massive project to over $3 million per patient.
Municipal officials spent $66 million on the rapid construction of a 2,750-bed makeshift facility in the city's McCormick Place Convention Center in April, as well as an additional $50 million preparing three previously shuttered hospitals in the nearby districts of Elgin, Blue Island and Melrose.
The McCormick Place field hospital was the only one of the four that welcomed any patients, with just under 40 total being placed there — roughly 1.3% of the facility's total occupancy.
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As in Chicago, earlier in the pandemic numerous field hospitals in cities such as Richmond, Va., Seattle and New York saw very little to no patients at all.
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I’m sure they used nursing homes to house Covid patients though, right?
$120 million for 38? Very efficient for Chicago standards
Well at least a bunch of union democrat contractors made a killing the Chicago way.
Among numerous Demonicrat-controlled cities, Chicago strives to be the hull-crushing abyss of kakistocracy in the United States.
And now they want all US taxpayers to pay for it or else no stimulus. See how that works.
You wouldn’t be implying that these contractors were paid exorbitant sums of money(with lots of losses for tax purposes) so that they could launder a huge chunk if that money to politicians, now would you. Why that’s preposterous!
Why does not Springfield have a say in this manner?
We set up an isolation unit inside our football stadium with several hundred beds.
The day before it opened, a press release stated that it was closing down because of insufficient demand.
How did our local news media react - crickets chirping, of course.
Has the rest of the country heard about the $570 million unemployment payment fraud in Washington state?
That's right - $570 million!
That happened two months ago, and the local MSM barely reports it.
How does Washington state feel about the government officials who let this happen?
I am glad you ask.
In our state wide “jungle primary” a couple weeks ago, Governor Inslee and the incumbent Attorney General each got more than 50% of the vote!
This is the kind of utter bull$h1t that makes me anti-government. All this fraud, waste and abuse and it NEVER goes punished!
Wrong, Chicago most likely spend 12 million dollars on the facilities and 108 million dollars went to the Democratic Machine!
The Union guys - Electricians, Plumbers, Sheet Metal Workers could not believe the money they were making setting up the fake hospital at McCormick Place.
They will make more when they tear out the hospital and clean up McCormick Place.
Lighthead and Putzker expect the Federal Government to pay for everything.
Government only rewards failure. It’s good for morale.
Geniuses
Could any of these hospital constructions have been done because of Fauci’s dire predictions? They should sue him for reparations!
Right you are. McCormick place is about the biggest ripoff exposition center in the universe. I don’t understand why any trade show would ever use it.
Some properly-placed donor made out.
“Why does not Springfield have a say in this manner?“
They did. Where do you think the money ended up?
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How very third world.
“Right you are. McCormick place is about the biggest ripoff exposition center in the universe. I don’t understand why any trade show would ever use it.”
Yep. Exhibitor setup people have wads of $20s in their pocket to get regular set up done by the union primadona tradesmen.
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