Perhaps I am indeed exhausted by the continuous barrage of rumors of doom. The last CDC snapshot (as old as 07/13!) estimates that nationally 8% of the hospital

Perhaps I am indeed exhausted by the continuous barrage of rumors of doom. The last CDC snapshot (as old as 07/13!) estimates that nationally 8% of the hospital beds were occupied with covid patients. Perhaps I'm unfazed by the ICU beds stats because I have been born and raised in a country where there were no ICU beds. I file them in the 'amazing bonus' rubric, not feeling entitled to have an ICU waiting for me worst case scenario. In my neck of the woods, the local pedriatic hospitals are at 70-80% utilization and have admitted a grand total of 8 covid cases in the past week. Some of the local adult hospitals are indeed going over 90% capacity, but others are cruising at 50%. The sum of covid cases admitted in the past week is in the low hundreds. This for an urban metro with 4M people. On the bright side, Florida, which has been the focus of national media covid reporting appears to have turned the corner on covid hospitalizations, currently running at 87% capacity, of which about 25% covid, and trending down. Iowa runs at 62% hospital capacity, with only 10% covid. Texas is worse with 80%/30%, but still functioning. While the situation is serious and tragic, there are no signs of the Apocalipse. By Apocalipse I mean healtcare system overwhelmed 10-100x, bodies piling in the streets, etc. The kind of catastrophe the likes of Thomas Puyol were predicting in early 2020, and at which the media has been alluding ever since, continuously rotating the focus on the worst affected areas. https://www.cdc.gov/nhsn/covid19/report-patient-impact.html https://www.cdc.gov/nhsn/covid19/report-patient-impact.html https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/region/us/florida https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/region/us/florida https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/region/us/iowa https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/region/us/iowa https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/region/us/texas https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/region/us/texas