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Yeah, so benign that hospitals are being overrun... oh, but that must be made up. Come on and open your eyes.

• thu2111 6y ago
  It is common for individual hospitals to occasionally need to load balance to other nearby hospitals. That is nothing unusual. Overload in an entire region would be, but as far as I know that has never happened anywhere. However, you can be forgiven for thinking that. Bad news sells newspapers, which seems to have led to a lot of very deceptive reporting. For example, headlines that literally say: "All the hospitals are full: in Houston overwhelmed hospitals leave COVID-19 patients waiting in ER" but at the time of publishing there were 2500 free beds in the Texas Medical Center system in Houston. So it wasn't possible that all the hospitals were full.
  • jjeaff 6y ago
    Are the refrigerated trucks being loaded with bodies that won't fit in the morgue just for show as well?
    • thu2111 6y ago
      No, but that's inevitable if funeral workers refuse to handle body's due to lack of ppe, which was the underlying cause for the temporary morgues in most places (not sure about New York)