Same with hospitalizations. Reporting a hospital is 97% full - uh yeah, that's the goal. You don't want an empty hospital if you are going to pay the bills. No one would ever say what a "normal" hospital capacity was pre-covid.
Also - hospitals have bed classifications that 'flex' with need. How you designate those beds affects reimbursement and staffing requirements. You can say your 6-bed ICU is 'full', however, if needed, you can flex an additional 20 beds to ICU beds by adjusting equipment and staffing levels. Lies, damn lies, and .. you know the thing.
Yes but someone posted just a couple days ago a side by side photo, purportedly of the Port of Long Beach with no ships out there from before the current crisis, and one from this week with dozens.
I saw that, and it was helpful in that it tried to make a comparison.
However, were the photos taken at approximately the same time of year (OP said ships waiting in harbour is not unusual at this time of year) and at approximately the same part of the harbour?
Knowing the answers to those questions or having alternate baseline info would help to sort out what part, if any, of this story is true and what, if any, is part of a disinfo campaign.
I've been saying the same thing since the images of ships being unloaded first started to be posted here.
Showing me that a bunch of ships are waiting to get unloaded means nothing if I have no baseline for comparison.
It may be an actual problem, or we may be getting set up for TP round 2.
Same with hospitalizations. Reporting a hospital is 97% full - uh yeah, that's the goal. You don't want an empty hospital if you are going to pay the bills. No one would ever say what a "normal" hospital capacity was pre-covid.
Also - hospitals have bed classifications that 'flex' with need. How you designate those beds affects reimbursement and staffing requirements. You can say your 6-bed ICU is 'full', however, if needed, you can flex an additional 20 beds to ICU beds by adjusting equipment and staffing levels. Lies, damn lies, and .. you know the thing.
Yes but someone posted just a couple days ago a side by side photo, purportedly of the Port of Long Beach with no ships out there from before the current crisis, and one from this week with dozens.
I saw that, and it was helpful in that it tried to make a comparison.
However, were the photos taken at approximately the same time of year (OP said ships waiting in harbour is not unusual at this time of year) and at approximately the same part of the harbour?
Knowing the answers to those questions or having alternate baseline info would help to sort out what part, if any, of this story is true and what, if any, is part of a disinfo campaign.