and the fear porn never ends. The headline is never northern idaho has 36 icu beds. they had 29 occupied and now with 5 covid patients may have to consider rationing treatment. it's always something more shocking and sensational than just the truth. cases have skyrocketed!! there's a severe shortage covering ten hospitals!!!!! well only two even have icu beds. the icu is an issue, but so too is the endless media fear porn that has given rise to silly shutdowns and all the deleterious effects that attend same. it's information presented with a slant. what will be the suggestion from fauci for a community like the panhandle? lock it down? homeschooling? because there's 5 covid patients in the icu that will impact 300,000.
trump did nothing. biden has done nothing. at some point we need to do something else. we need innovation. we need care expansion. we need to earmark monies for care expansion. maybe we need to relax standards for triage issues. maybe we need waivers and indemnification. but the endless fear porn does nothing but cast a doom and gloom over the country.
the reality is that the number of covid patients in icu are a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of our population yet their impact is ubiquitous bc the media and fauci and the rest have us wound up like baseballs. the cure is becoming worse than the disease. we're into the third academic year.