So the mainstream narrative right now is that hospitals are filling up around the country due to omicron. A potential much wraker virus with higher transmissibility. Before all these reports, this looked like the strain that shoupd be able to cause mass immunity for mankind because it was like the common cold as far as mortality goes. So whats really happening... whats the rub?
Is the virus weaker? I thought so Is it more transmissible? Seems that way, i heard aomething about 500k cases in one day. Its very hard to get an accurate hospitalization count. Does anyone have real answers? Are hospitals really filling up for a virus thats now weaker and only exhibits symptoms no worse than the common cold?
Im starting to get confused. Does anyone have answers for us?
o7, Army cav scout vet
So forget about the focus on the variant, think about it through semantics. Hospitals aren’t overrun, their covid wards may possibly be overrun and they use that to frame the narrative that the hospital itself is overrun. They fire a decent portion of their staff due to vax mandates, so now they commit a portion of their emergency beds to covid and they issue percentages of beds filled in “emergency rooms” based off what they’ve allotted for their covid specific intakes. Then, they say they’re short staffed because they can’t keep up with the cases, but it’s because of staffing shortages they created. The whole things a fuckin joke.