More fear porn. “At capacity!” Oh no!
It’s not even worth trying to explain to you what a meaningless metric that is in the scheme of things in a hospital, but the reporting served its purpose on the public.
I work at large facilities in the Bay Area (7.8m people roughly) far from Turkeyfoot? USA. Is that “metropolitan” enough for you?
Here’s an excerpt of a more honest article I found from June 2020 and is reflective of my experience for the most part during the whole fiasco.
Across the Bay Area, hospitals are at least half full, some more than 80%, but mostly with non-COVID-19 patients. After months of planning and vigilant daily monitoring, hospital leaders said they’re cautiously optimistic that they can handle the spike in patients for now.
“We are not close to a scary number,” said Dr. Kathleen Clanon, medical director for Alameda County’s Health Care Services Agency. “I never want to say that we’re confident of anything with COVID-19 — the whole experience has been very humbling — but at this moment ... we have plenty of capacity in our hospitals, and we haven’t even come close to normal capacity, never mind surge capacity.”
Look at the big picture…when a gov is letting in 1000s of (unscreened for disease and illness) non citizens in a day at the border but telling your average Joe American they can’t go to church in order to “stop the spread”, or to the grocery unless they take a shot, you’re being played. Thats not a gov taking a so called pandemic seriously. When a Trump rally is a super spreader event but a BLM/Antifa rally is not, then you’re being played. It’s something else entirely going on and it’s anything but a gov worried about a pandemic. Maybe one day you’ll use the smallest amount of logic and figure it all out.