wrathfulmomes

Hospitals are designed to run near-capacity. They're for-profit corporations and it optimizes profits.

It takes very little to overwhelm them.

One bad car accident may require sending injured to separate hospitals. It just SOUNDS bad to be "near capacity".

Vhaine

America is a massive fucking continent spanning empire...but to journalism it's really just LA and New York. Other places exist the same way that Russian election hacking exists. As in, only when it's politically expedient to assert so.

Mother in law a covid nurse. Dedicated to it since march. Hospital runs 2-3 cases pretty steady since then. She's the only covid nurse on her shift and handles all the patients. She feels fine.

i_scream_trucks

our hospitals in melbourne have been virtually empty since march nurses getting laid off and retraining into other sectors.

that sounds like a totally legit thing to do in the middle of/before the main wave of a pandemic.

but

what i get the feeling theyre doing is sacking everyone medically related that ask awkward questions... like why are you putting that non elderly flu patient in an aged care ward or why are you giving that elderly person those meds that they dont need and just do what theyre told so that if they get caught killing someone it will be the actual medical person doing what theyre told that goes to prison not the fucktards that ordered it.

in other words theyre now making the niggers and other assorted braindead shit that work in aged care into actual medical nurses.

derram

https://dontvis.it/https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/10/23/world/covid-19-coronavirus-updates?partner=IFTTT#hospitals-on-the-brink-of-capacity-near-record-cases-the-virus-continues-its-surge-across-the-us :

2020-10-23 | Live Global Updates of the Covid-19 Pandemic - The New York Times

'And on his most important political vulnerability — his mismanagement of the pandemic — Mr. '

'More than 200,000 coronavirus cases have been identified at U.S. colleges this year, according to a New York Times survey that showed universities continuing to struggle to control major outbreaks. '

'Eve Edelheit for The New York Times July 16 was arguably the worst of the pandemic in the United States to that point, set records nationwide. '

'The president is now balking at granting New York more coronavirus recovery funds, despite entreaties from Representative Peter T. King to reconsider. '

'Of the more than 1,700 institutions surveyed by The Times, more than 50 reported at least 1,000 cases over the course of the pandemic. '

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