I work in the medical industry, and I have had COVID patients tell me they don't think this is legit. They are forced into these rooms in a shut-down hallway, and they don't have a say in when they can leave. They are being locked down against their will, for $3900 (at least) a day, for the hospital in Medicare kickbacks. I'm hearing a lot of people saying they will do whatever it takes to not do business with the place that I am at, because of the way that they have handled this fake pandemic. Trump had passed an executive order regarding hospitals revealing their itemized true costs of care, medications, and procedures. So when a hospital is suddenly "opening up" the building, that's what they're really doing. They are hiding the fact that they are scamming people for hella bucks. There are hospitals out there being investigated for embezzlement, fraud, etc., on top of medical malpractice, #1 cause of death in the industry.
One article kind of talking about what I'm referring to.
My wife and I had to go to a hospital Emergency Room for her to have a simple doctor ordered cat-scan. We sat there for 6 hours waiting. Meanwhile, there were at least 30 to 35 people in the ER waiting room... and roughly 1/4th of them had Covid-19. Some were on breathing machines while waiting. Others were coughing their lungs out.
Of course, the air conditioning system kept re-circulating the air over and over to ensure that everyone gets Covid-19. We sat right in front of the sliding double-doors to outside, which kept opening and closing every 2 minutes or so. Even though it was cold, damp and windy... we were constantly getting a fresh breeze and it was pushing the other air back into the room.
My bet is we were the only ones present that didn't get Covid-19. Everyone else who arrived healthy likely didn't leave that way.
I do understand how hospitals can be so irresponsible. They are making so much money from Covid-19 that they really don't care if 20 people catch the virus in their own waiting room. More money for the hospital.
In my line of work, even turning over a room is questionable. Before anyone can even walk in, if the room is ventilated for negative pressure, that's a 30 min wait, so that the "air can cycle out the bad germs" If it's positive pressure, it's an hour. Then you put on your PPE, goggles, face shield, mask, gloves, shoe covers, surgical scrubs, the whole getup. Then after that, you clean up the room as needed, then use the UV light robots to really "kill the germs." You toss out your PPE, then you take out the trash Before the UV lights come out. Lots of holes in keeping things "sterile" To add on, surgery staff will go outside,and come back in, with the same clothes on and carrying outside stuff into the sterile area. "sterile" sorry Hospitals are set up, so that the air recycles throughout the whole building, and in Covid rooms, that's being really concentrated in one room. The negative pressure literally has no effect on how clean a room is. To add on the whole "hospitals are irresponsible" argument. You're right, more than you may know. In my hospital, no one is allowed past the door now without being screened. And anybody can lie on the screening questions, just like staff can lie on their mask fitting tests. In the name of safety. What an illusion we have created for ourselves.