Our hospitals fill up this time every year with flu patients and homeless people faking ailments to get out of the cold for a few hours. When I used to work in Urgent Care, anyone needing a transfer to the hospital was in for a 5-6 hour wait minimum and sometimes didn't get there for a full day. People would get frustrated and leave to go to the hospital directly, thinking we were the ones holding things up only to come slinking back a few hours later to ask for their room and bed back. It's nothing new.
Of course he will. He recently compared unvaccinated people to those with "ticking time bombs in their backpacks". Some people were incensed at certain political commentators implying that Inslee was implying the unvaccinated are bomb-wielding "terrorists"; however, what other vision comes to mind when you use that description?
The 2017-2018 influenza epidemic is sending people to hospitals and urgent-care centers in every state, and medical centers are responding with extraordinary measures: asking staff to work overtime, setting up triage tents, restricting friends and family visits and canceling elective surgeries, to name a few.
Pretty much everything else, though, matches up 100 percent. They can use the same narrative. The other difference is, none of this was paid attention to at all by the general public. Not one person would be able to tell you this fact if you asked them questions about the severity and hospital system strain in flu seasons before COVID came along. Even myself, until I started actually looking into this stuff.
News reports state that hospitals are over flowing because of C19. Reading between the lines, the beds they have designated for C19 patients are full. Question is how many beds are designated for C19 patients, 5 out of 100?
Our hospitals fill up this time every year with flu patients and homeless people faking ailments to get out of the cold for a few hours. When I used to work in Urgent Care, anyone needing a transfer to the hospital was in for a 5-6 hour wait minimum and sometimes didn't get there for a full day. People would get frustrated and leave to go to the hospital directly, thinking we were the ones holding things up only to come slinking back a few hours later to ask for their room and bed back. It's nothing new.
100% about the homeless people. Here in S Texas, when it gets cold, the suicidal ideation rate skyrockets!
Of course Inslee will somehow spin this into a COVID thing and blame it on those who are not vaccinated.
Of course he will. He recently compared unvaccinated people to those with "ticking time bombs in their backpacks". Some people were incensed at certain political commentators implying that Inslee was implying the unvaccinated are bomb-wielding "terrorists"; however, what other vision comes to mind when you use that description?
Just look at prior years for perspective. This, from 2018, as TIME magazine describes the 2017 - 2018 flu season as an "epidemic"
https://time.com/5107984/hospitals-handling-burden-flu-patients/
Boy oh boy, now what does that sound like?
Difference is they weren't firing people for not getting the jab.
Pretty much everything else, though, matches up 100 percent. They can use the same narrative. The other difference is, none of this was paid attention to at all by the general public. Not one person would be able to tell you this fact if you asked them questions about the severity and hospital system strain in flu seasons before COVID came along. Even myself, until I started actually looking into this stuff.
That was a worse year than usual for flu. Are these hospitals that fired their unvaxxed staff?
News reports state that hospitals are over flowing because of C19. Reading between the lines, the beds they have designated for C19 patients are full. Question is how many beds are designated for C19 patients, 5 out of 100?