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Originally Posted by Mad Max
Stop saying that! You will drive the Commies nuts with the truth. Lol...
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Not sure you're drawing the right conclusions, politics aside... The hospitals are empty because.....people are freaked out about getting covid while getting treatments...
I work for a huge hospital group, and people have been blowing off elective surgeries and sometimes required ones, people with cancer weren't coming for chemo or others not doing required tests to detect cancers early...Same with heart issues... The true damage of Covid will not be Covid, it'll be everything else that was not taken care of during 3-4 months of panic ;-( Our hospitals were bleeding something like 5-10 mil per DAY during the early months in lost revenue. We have recovered to almost normal business now, as much as it pains me to equate hospital to businesses but that's America for you - and indeed in CA anyway the ICU has very few Covid patients.
The word I get from the doctors I deal with is "we were really scared initially because we did not know this virus, understand all the side effects, and the info we got from China was complete BS.... Now we know how to treat people, how to keep them alive, unless you are super sick with co-morbidities we can keep you alive as long as it takes to recover" - they're not longer fearful. Not so say some folks don't suffer lung damage but...