Trust but verify. You simply have fallen into the trap of thinking things are liberal controlled, too broad a house kiddo. The right wing are the circus tent small enough to be controlled, even have a ringmaster and elephant. You will see a reaction to you now they have heard you are connected to Dutch Antilles and speak Creole (Haitian?). Thinking you are at least brownskinned they won't read or reply to a post if yours again. Anyway dinner to finish.
The issue is that over 50% of U.S. hospital admissions are for elective surgery. When elective surgeries are stopped due to a pandemic then those hospital rooms are empty. And many of the specialists dedicated to knee surgery, etc. are not needed -- nor do they have skills that transfer to the ICU and emergency centers. Nearly every hospital is now laying off 30% or more of its staff. On top of this hospitals needs to be re-configured to handle pandemic patients. There needs to be a clustering of treatment beds around the ICU and appropriate equipment moved while attempting to increase spacing. Due to this many floors within a hospital may now be completely empty. Of course, with no visitors allowed in hospital - the visitor parking lots are completely empty. It is amusing to see clowns trying to claim there is no pandemic because the hospital visitor parking lot is empty.
We have over 3 million people in San Diego and only 45 deaths and less than 2,000 positives Your spin is ridiculously uniformed and your name calling arrogance is surprising. My mother in law in died on thursday and was in an out of hospitals multiple times per week the last 3 months. they told us the emergency rooms were empty. I know doctors not making any money who told me that many other medical staff think this was not done correctly. You can cluster you beds as much as you want. almost no one is in them. Fauci just told us they are going to open up in a manner more customized to what is going on locally. The same logic should have applied to the shutdown. Finally... if this disease was really what they predicted... how could there be any workers left at costco and supermarkets and hospitals. This disease targets certain demographics.... Perhaps we could have protected those demos differently. Right now the response runs the risk of being far worse than the virus. Domestic violence Depression Job loss economic collapse lack of food loss of life savings in our homes and other wise its already begun. those are real issues which were not properly weighed. we don't really know if we saved lives in the long run. Regardless of what you want to write... The curves were all bullshit... We will never know if the choice were correct. its all speculation... only clowns don't understand the ramps were wrong and hence you have no idea if the shutdown was the correct response. What are the chances the shutdown was optimal? I would say zero percent. so don't act like you know what you are talking about. you have know more knowledge than any other expert. and the ramps were all bullshit so it was all guess work. And there is no way you know the damage to lives this shutdown has caused.
I merely stated the obvious facts about hospitals during the pandemic and why many are laying off staff. None of this is "spin"; it is all facts. Please indicate which of these statements you disagree with: Over 50% of U.S. hospital admissions are for elective surgery in the past decade. The majority of hospital revenue in the U.S. comes from elective surgery in the past decade. Hospitals have stopped doing elective surgeries due to the pandemic. Many of the staff who have been laid off from hospitals during this pandemic do not have skills that are easily transferable to the ICU or critical care. Hospitals must be physically re-configured to handle a pandemic. The reconfiguration of hospitals for the pandemic are focused on the area around the ICU. Many hospitals currently have floors or wings that are completely empty. Hospitals treating COVID-19 are currently not allowing visitors. The visitor parking lots in hospitals treating COVID-19 are empty. While you are at it please explain why you are saying "Your spin is ridiculously uniformed and your name calling arrogance is surprising." When did I call you names and what points above are ridiculously uniformed? Here in North Carolina we have multiple hospitals that have laid off staff and stopped elective surgery but still have very few COVID-19 patients - leaving most of the beds, ICU and emergency empty. I will use the Vidant hospital in Greenville as an example. Was this the best approach for the hospitals (dictated by state & federal law)? I really don't know -- but it is the approach that was put in place during our nationwide pandemic emergency. Contrary to N.C. -- the hospitals in New York and Long Island are completely full to near ICU/Emergency capacity with COVID-19 patients. There are many patients and regular deaths. I have family members working in New York hospitals and they fully confirm that the hospitals are crowded and just short of being overwhelmed by COVID-19. On a further note - I went to high school in Nassau County in Long Island and moved to N.C. after college. I am in my mid-50s. Prior to 2020 we only had one death among my high school classmates. In the mere recent 3 weeks we had 6 deaths from COVID-19 in N.Y. from people who graduated the same year as me from my high school or the directly neighboring high schools. There are a dozen others in hospitals on ventilators; it is likely that only 30% of them will survive (statistically). These numbers speak for themselves. COVID-19 is a serious pandemic situation. Let me provide an easy understand video to educate everyone about COVID-19. I will note the one thing the video got incorrect the R0 rate of COVID-19 is much greater than 2; the actual value is between 4.7 to 6.6 making COVID-19 very highly infectious - https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.07.20021154v1
What do you want from me when we are rolling through a disaster without any prevention and mid evil containment strategies. It’s known Trump sat on his hands during a critical time when he had a playbook to follow. The entire federal response has been shit. Going forward, we still do not have a widespread testing strategy and this will keep spreading until we do. I don’t understand how so many people are dismissive when a plague was just unleashed on our country.
Anyone claiming that Trump sat on his hands or that the Federal response has been poor, is an anti-American idiot.
One point I did not cover earlier was hospital staff on the front-line taking pay cuts. This article covers the situation in detail. 'Terrified' doctors risking their health fighting coronavirus dealt another blow -- pay cuts https://www.foxnews.com/us/doctors-coronavirus-health-pay-cuts