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Your response would make sense if we were still in the first months of the pandemic when there was serious risk of overrunning the hospitals. Covid is still ve
by Consultant32452 5y ago
Your response would make sense if we were still in the first months of the pandemic when there was serious risk of overrunning the hospitals.
Covid is still very real. And there are still very real risks. But this fear of overrun ICUs is irrational nonsense. We are back to pre-pandemic ICU utilization. And we have been since before the Delta variant hit.
- maxerickson 5y agoThe head internist at my local hospital participated in a news story about how everyone that works there is sick of it all just last month. This is at a small hospital that usually deals with a few patients at a time. They've had periods where they had limited space and couldn't make transfers since Delta hit. But maybe the media called every hospital in the state to find her or something. We are scraping by with the measures we do have in place, we can't use the fact that we are successfully scraping by as evidence that we have too many measures in place.
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- Consultant32452 5y agoIt's simply dishonest for you or anyone else to pretend like COVID filling up ICUs is a wide spread problem. There may be anecdotes of it being true in a particular hospital or community. But nationwide we are back to pre-pandemic occupancy levels. I don't understand why you extrapolated that data to suggest something about how many measures we have in place. Is your position that we should lie to the public so they will do what you want?
- maxerickson 5y agoI feel like we are talking past each other and you are putting words in my mouth (and calling me a liar), so whatever.