Quote (WickedDarkJuggalos @ Nov 21 2021 06:10pm)
But they weren’t really. There was a short time where the media was pretending delta had red state hospitals overrun, the famous “gunshot victims being turned away” comes to mind, but that was just made up. Fake news if you will.
Here in New York, they built several “pop up” hospitals and icu Covid centers which were never even used. This happened in many places. They were expecting people to be dying in the street, but it never happened. The hospitals were not “overrun” despite what your media headlines have told you.
Ima let you in on a secret. Hospitals are designed to run at capacity. They are supposed to be efficient and run as many patients as they can. Hospitals get backed up every flu season. This is normal, but it’s not a headline because fear mongering when it comes to viruses is new. Did you think hospitals were half empty all the time before Covid? The healthcare system was not overrun, there was just so much fear a lot of nurses stayed home and others had to work overtime. I have been working at my wife’s bakery overnight for the past 5 weeks straight. No days off. Does that mean the local bakery industry has been overrun or is there a shortage of workers? I bet the news could get you to believe the former.
But as to your question, does it matter that we have known from the beginning that this virus only really hurts unhealthy people? Uh, absolutely it does.
We are supposed to change our entire lives and bow down to the government over “emergency protocol” that is being sustained despite the pandemic being over?
We know who is vulnerable, who is not. We know the “vaccines” don’t do what vaccines are supposed to do, but can help you from becoming very sick if you get it. We have all of the information we need to be able to drop this bullshit and get back to what life is supposed to be without constant fear mongering and lies.
The "gunshot victims being turned away" was not due to Covid. It was due to ivermectin. That was based on one person's claim, and was indeed false. However, that doesn't mean red states weren't having hospitals packed from Delta. The hospital I did all my pre-med work at and worked as a phlebotomist at for two years was completely at capacity and did not have enough staff to care for even close to all the patients, and it was due to their low vaccination rate.
I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Hospitals are not designed to run at capacity for long periods. This is a really obvious lie to anybody who's worked in healthcare for any amount of time. When you are at 100% capacity your goal is to relieve capacity, because operating that way for a prolonged period results in sub-par care, suicidal workers, and having to turn away people when emergency cases come in. Hospitals get backed up every flu season, they almost never reach their maximum capacity. I worked through some very bad flu seasons, and we never had to open up every single bed we had available. There was always at least one wing that wasn't opened and staffed. That's not true under Covid.
The "pop up hospitals" were set up by the federal government and Covid patients were explicitly not allowed. When the governor asked Trump to open them up for Covid patients he didn't until months later. The hospital ship that was sent explicitly denied covid patients for over a month. We've been over this literally a dozen times before you started posting regularly.
The vaccines absolutely do what they are supposed to. This is a lie. You are telling a lie here. Vaccines have been shown unambiguously to mitigate symptoms for both the alpha and delta strain, and have been shown to lessen spread, even though they don't eliminate it entirely. That is totally within normal parameters for a vaccine.
You are provably wrong on every. single. claim. you just made. Straight up, unambiguously wrong, and it's because you are too lazy to find real information.