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Are they simply lying in our faces?
FuckCCP89 saysAre they simply lying in our faces?
Have you not noticed yet that water is wet and fire is hot?
I struggle to understand how across Canada we have been repeatedly told about overwhelmed hospitals, and yet there is not a single province or health region that has demonstrated a meaningful increase in hospital occupancy above historical norms.
This article doesn't even start to touch on how Provinces and Territories have had 18 months to increase hospital capacity, yet in most cases have added an insignificant number of Acute Care and ICU beds, and in some cases (I'm looking at you Alberta) they have even fewer hospital beds now than they did 5 years ago! But I'll leave that topic for another day.
I’m going to Baja California Sur Mexico in a couple of weeks, I am curious what absurd rules are imposed down there.
Yes, the data is from Sep 16th and the article is published yesterday. One can argue that they could see a massive surge in the last week, but where the fuck would ICU beds go? It's not possible to have 64 beds on Sep 16th but "have space for only 28 patients" and in need to repurpose hallways a week later, is it?
So, what the fuck is this?
https://apple.news/AEfjzV4cGRIyKfCrHjhGkrA
Typical fear porn how ICUs are overrun with dying "covid" patients and how the hospital is so crowded they are putting beds into hallways:
"The ICU here has space for 28 patients but last Friday was operating at 160% capacity, Baxter said. To handle the overflow, nurses elsewhere provide care beyond their training as covid patients fill other parts of the hospital. In the lobby of the emergency department, rooms roughly 6 feet by 6 feet have been fashioned with makeshift plastic walls. Ten members of the Montana Army National Guard arrived last week to help however they can. Hospital staffers volunteer to sit with dying patients. Beds line hallways."
Then I open the HHS hospital capacity tracking site and see that Billings, MT has 2 hospitals with 64 and 49 ICU beds. What's more, as of Sep 16th they had 14 (20%) and 20 (40%) of ICU beds available, respectively.
https://protect-public.hhs.gov/pages/hospital-utilization
Yes, the data is from Sep 16th and the article is published yesterday. One can argue that they could see a massive surge in the last week, but where the fuck would ICU beds go? It's not possible to have 64 beds on Sep 16th but "have space for only 28 patients" and in need to repurpose hallways a week later, is it?
So, what the fuck is this?