LINK Georgia Hospital Worker Sounds Alarm: 'I Have Never Ever Seen Anything Like This' : Coronavirus Live Updates : NPR
"When you have to start shipping patients out of state, it's bad," the worker said. "When the hospitals are full, that's when it becomes really dangerous for everybody."
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Government inaction is very effective at funneling money to the Healthcare industry.
BitFlipper
Level 8
July 17, 2020
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I am not sure that is all that accurate. Many many healthcare institutions are losing money hand over fist throughout this. ALL elective procedures were stopped across the nation for months in order to be as prepared as possible to provide for the influx of Covid-19 patients. In many places they are still restricted, and across the nation hospitals are required to keep a federally dictated proportion of their beds available for Covid-19 patients regardless of the prevalence in their immediate area. People are not seeking healthcare for chronic or non emergent issues due to the increased risk of contracting Covid-19 in a healthcare setting. This will be a moneymaker for those invested in therapuetics or a vaccine that may come into play in the future, but not the healthcare industry at large.
If you think it's bad now wait another 3 weeks. Even if they locked down now it would take 3 weeks before the curve even leveled off never mind going down
dermot235
Level 7
July 17, 2020
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It's absolutely maddening to watch what is happening here. It's even more maddening being a healthcare worker and watching these twats make stupid decisions from the comfort of their zoom meetings while the rest of us are left to clean up the massively compounded mess they're leaving in their wake.
And I had a worker in a store today tell me "Connecticut is doing so much better not because of masks but just 'because'" - I didn't inquire further - I just got my arse out of there when I realized her mask was below her nose and she worked the entire store like that all of the time - becoming essentially typhoid Mary.
It seems everyone is an idiot - from the people who should be looking out for "Everyman" to the people who should know better simply from basic science knowledge (that I thought everyone had?).
RavenCT
Level 9
July 17, 2020
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No, it is because almost everybody here in CT started wearing masks in March....and those wearing them incorrectly, or not wearing them, hear about it! Our "herd immunity" IF it even exists, depends on our actions!
@AnneWimsey Exactly! We shut down fast (Which I told her) and we insisted on masks fast too.
She was out of her tiny mind.
"Just because...."??? Oh, yeah. I would have pressed her on that. Because of her god maybe? lmao
Gov. Kemp seems to want to make things worse. It's baffling... maddening... disgusting. I keep wondering how far these idiotic Republican leaders can push things before someone snaps and takes them out.
bingst
Level 8
July 17, 2020
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I'm with you there. None of what these twats are doing to politicize a fucking global health emergency, one that has effectively destroyed our country and economy and killed hundreds of thousands of people over the course of a few months is anything even remotely American. Grrrr
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