They say the same thing about the Harris County, Texas (Houston area) hospitals. I have been working around the main hospital district for weeks now, and drive by four different hospital emergency entrances several times a day.
There is ZERO increase in traffic, nobody waiting outside to get in, no crowds and no unusual activity. In fact, the emergency rooms seems to be pretty vacant during the daytime. Any "news" that the hospitals are being over-run is garbage.
I live in Texas as well. This is all bullshit. You can go to the Texas Medical Center website and see that the icu is running at 80% (well below precovid) and that covid patients make up only a fraction of the bed usage. Note: whenever there is a fear-mongering story in Texas it refers to "Staffed" beds...not available beds. Stop firing nurses and the problem is solved!
Problem with talking about foot traffic and empty parking lots is nobody but patients are allowed there. My grandpa got to the clinic like an hour early due to ride complications and they made him wait outside. So you'll never see huge crowds of anything near the hospitals. It's still overblown and fake news like you said but I'm always skeptical when people try to claim that is true due to what your eyes are telling you without taking into consideration the changes in protocol these places have implemented. Most of the fuckery is around staffed beds due to them firing unnecessary employees since nobody was going anywhere or doing anything for a year and therefore not getting hurt.
They say the same thing about the Harris County, Texas (Houston area) hospitals. I have been working around the main hospital district for weeks now, and drive by four different hospital emergency entrances several times a day.
There is ZERO increase in traffic, nobody waiting outside to get in, no crowds and no unusual activity. In fact, the emergency rooms seems to be pretty vacant during the daytime. Any "news" that the hospitals are being over-run is garbage.
I live in Texas as well. This is all bullshit. You can go to the Texas Medical Center website and see that the icu is running at 80% (well below precovid) and that covid patients make up only a fraction of the bed usage. Note: whenever there is a fear-mongering story in Texas it refers to "Staffed" beds...not available beds. Stop firing nurses and the problem is solved!
Problem with talking about foot traffic and empty parking lots is nobody but patients are allowed there. My grandpa got to the clinic like an hour early due to ride complications and they made him wait outside. So you'll never see huge crowds of anything near the hospitals. It's still overblown and fake news like you said but I'm always skeptical when people try to claim that is true due to what your eyes are telling you without taking into consideration the changes in protocol these places have implemented. Most of the fuckery is around staffed beds due to them firing unnecessary employees since nobody was going anywhere or doing anything for a year and therefore not getting hurt.