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Originally Posted by Llanos
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The amount of cases is irrelevant with a 99.96% survival rate. Death is what counts. We have all had the flu multiple times. Doesn't matter if you just recover and move on. It's not news. Getting sick and recovering is not news and a cause to panic.
My wife Nanny's for the head nurse at a major hospital here in Phoenix. Like any health care professional she takes this seriously. A very few people are legit dying and it sucks. But she will straight up tell us that they are lying and padding the numbers. One scam she says they use at her hospital goes like this. I'm going to simplify the numbers.
They have 100 total beds. They have 20 set aside for the "Covid Ward". Out of the other 80 beds, only 30 are being used. Seems legit. So then 18 people with Covid come in. "OMG Covid ward at 98% capacity, the sky is falling!". Not really, you have 50 open beds you can use. And now that everything is Covid and we have eradicated the flu, (sarcasm in case you missed it), there's no need for all those beds for the flu.
Also you need to realize hospitals are meant and designed to run at 90-95% capacity or they lose money. A lot of this is inflated to control fear.
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Same shit is happening here in Seattle. The one time I tried to explain to Karen what the actual statics looked like you would think I just ran over her dog, kidnapped her mother and flung crap all over her house.
We have the Washington Hospital Association. Most hospitals in the state are members; even a fair number of urgent care clinics have joined. King County (county with Seattle) has just over 10,000 regular hospital beds plus 1,100 ICU beds. Most of these are spread over 6 major hospitals but there's a bunch in smaller places. Right now Harborview/UW, Evergreen, Overlake and Sweedish are the primary places with covid cases.
King County has never hit 10% capacity for covid cases. We're currently at 4.5% capacity for covid cases. As mentioned above, this 4.5% is strictly for the beds specifically set aside for covid cases; not total hospital beds available. There are 386 people in the hospital right now; out of over 11,100 beds. While I do feel bad for those in the hospital; very bad for those that have recovered but continue to suffer and even worse about the deaths I also feel pretty bad about the unemployment and underemployment numbers.
King County usually has 8,000 restaurants with a typical average of 400 new ones opening each year and 350 ones closing each year. As of a couple weeks ago we've lost 2,000 that will not reopen; less than 100 new ones. This is only restaurants; nearly every small business industry is doing the same thing. Hell, we've had to vet offices close in the last year near me. My dentist said she's doing close to 30% pro-bono work because most of her clients have lost their jobs and insurance.
FFS Inslee, open this shit up or the current Seattle homeless problem is going to look like Disneyland from a year ago.