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I didn't read all of those links. The first one looked like it had to do with having to transfer patients around. I skimmed the first few paragraphs and admitte

by zeven7 5y ago

I didn't read all of those links. The first one looked like it had to do with having to transfer patients around. I skimmed the first few paragraphs and admittedly don't understand the problem but it's hard to find the direct link to the discussion - it didn't say hospitals were overflowing. The second link was titled "anticipated omicron surge". The 3rd link says: > “Local public health workers are burnt out from nearly two years of round-the-clock contact tracing, a massive vaccination effort, nonstop demands for information and guidance from businesses, residents and town governments, and the stress of having mask mandates become a local responsibility, and much more,” Walker said. This article is about health workers being exhausted for having to do things that they probably shouldn't be doing anymore now that vaccines have been generally available for almost a year and the latest variant is not more dangerous than the regular flu. Again, an argument that we need to move on. After skimming the first 3 it doesn't look like I should spend any time on the rest.

tzs 5y ago
> This article is about health workers being exhausted for having to do things that they probably shouldn't be doing anymore now that vaccines have been generally available for almost a year and the latest variant is not more dangerous than the regular flu. Again, an argument that we need to move on. Vaccines have been generally available for almost a year. That doesn't mean that everyone that could get vaccinated has done so. There are plenty of counties in the US where the vaccination rate is still below 50%. There are even plenty of counties where the vaccination rate among those 65+ is below 50%. You are right that health care workers should not have to be doing those things anymore--we should have been at 90+% vaccination rate pretty much everywhere in the US by mid-2021. But we aren't, and so they do have to keep doing those things. And as long as that keeps happening we can't move on, because people need hospitals for things other than COVID. Even those of us in places with good vaccination rates can be affected because the places that are overwhelmed are transferring the overflow to places that aren't.

by zeven7 5y ago

tzs 5y ago

> This article is about health workers being exhausted for having to do things that they probably shouldn't be doing anymore now that vaccines have been generally available for almost a year and the latest variant is not more dangerous than the regular flu. Again, an argument that we need to move on. Vaccines have been generally available for almost a year. That doesn't mean that everyone that could get vaccinated has done so. There are plenty of counties in the US where the vaccination rate is still below 50%. There are even plenty of counties where the vaccination rate among those 65+ is below 50%. You are right that health care workers should not have to be doing those things anymore--we should have been at 90+% vaccination rate pretty much everywhere in the US by mid-2021. But we aren't, and so they do have to keep doing those things. And as long as that keeps happening we can't move on, because people need hospitals for things other than COVID. Even those of us in places with good vaccination rates can be affected because the places that are overwhelmed are transferring the overflow to places that aren't.