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I would love to know why you think it's a conspiracy theory that hospitals are reporting cases of COVID for profit. It's not like healthcare has never gamed the

by vgchh 6y ago

I would love to know why you think it's a conspiracy theory that hospitals are reporting cases of COVID for profit. It's not like healthcare has never gamed the system. Not saying you are wrong, but it's a possibility that they indeed gamed the system. If he has made predictions that we will have 0 cases by end of April, that's just clearly brain-dead of him and it's fine if we are lamenting him for those stupid predictions.

GhostVII 6y ago
The 0 cases tweet: https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1240754657263144960 https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/12407546572631449... And to expand on the reporting of COVID for profit, I think it is possible for hospitals to be over reporting COVID cases, but I think it borders on conspiracy theory to suggest that it is a significant contributor to the numbers we are seeing now. Deaths don't lie and the increase in deaths we are seeing lines up with the positive test results. So in the context of arguing that we are overreacting to COVID, I think it is a poor argument.
- dlp211 6y ago
  Considering that there are 40,000 unaccounted for deaths[1], it is far more likely that hospitals/municipalities are under counting COVID19 deaths. [1]https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronavirus-missing-deaths.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronav...
cl42 6y ago
Hospitals are actually suffering economically as a result of this entire crisis, too. They are postponing and cancelling more profitable elective procedures[1]. If anything, they're incentivized to underreport the # of cases. [1] See the FT: "Counter-intuitively, healthcare was one of the sectors that provided the biggest drag on the economy, as hospitals stopped performing lucrative elective procedures in order to focus on dealing with coronavirus patients." https://www.ft.com/content/06493320-083a-4a7d-94cc-8db581f9ed03 https://www.ft.com/content/06493320-083a-4a7d-94cc-8db581f9e...
paulcole 6y ago
> why you think it's a conspiracy theory that hospitals are reporting cases of COVID for profit The complete lack of evidence is a good start.

by vgchh 6y ago

GhostVII 6y ago

The 0 cases tweet: https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1240754657263144960 https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/12407546572631449... And to expand on the reporting of COVID for profit, I think it is possible for hospitals to be over reporting COVID cases, but I think it borders on conspiracy theory to suggest that it is a significant contributor to the numbers we are seeing now. Deaths don't lie and the increase in deaths we are seeing lines up with the positive test results. So in the context of arguing that we are overreacting to COVID, I think it is a poor argument.

dlp211 6y ago
Considering that there are 40,000 unaccounted for deaths[1], it is far more likely that hospitals/municipalities are under counting COVID19 deaths. [1]https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronavirus-missing-deaths.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronav...

cl42 6y ago

Hospitals are actually suffering economically as a result of this entire crisis, too. They are postponing and cancelling more profitable elective procedures[1]. If anything, they're incentivized to underreport the # of cases. [1] See the FT: "Counter-intuitively, healthcare was one of the sectors that provided the biggest drag on the economy, as hospitals stopped performing lucrative elective procedures in order to focus on dealing with coronavirus patients." https://www.ft.com/content/06493320-083a-4a7d-94cc-8db581f9ed03 https://www.ft.com/content/06493320-083a-4a7d-94cc-8db581f9e...

paulcole 6y ago

> why you think it's a conspiracy theory that hospitals are reporting cases of COVID for profit The complete lack of evidence is a good start.