that doesn't tell me anything. how many icu beds do they have? how many were already occupied? how many covid patients were added to "overwhelm" the system.
The criteria for decision making used to be based on deaths and hospital capacity, now it’s cases. Soon it will be, how vaccinated a local population is. You guys have lost your minds.
Your team still on the floor?
I don't believe that but whatever the % actually was...let 'em walk.
Here's a look at Pennsylvania: 97% of Covid deaths, 95% of hospitalizations, and 94% of cases are among the unvaccinated.
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All the (healthy) unvacced should be put in a large holding pen, dewormed, then lock it up tight, until they come to their senses/nature takes it's course.Here's a look at Pennsylvania: 97% of Covid deaths, 95% of hospitalizations, and 94% of cases are among the unvaccinated.
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Here's a look at what unvaccinated selfish assholes (that description doesn't apply, of course, to people who are unable to receive the vaccine for legitimate medical reasons) are costing the country's health care system. 86% of the 530,000 Americans who were hospitalized in June, July and August were unvaccinated. "Each hospitalization was estimated to cost $20,000—a cost to taxpayer-funded public insurance programs and the workers and businesses paying health insurance premiums." Any thoughts on that?
Unvaccinated Americans cost the health system $5.7 billion
At least 86% of the 530,000 people hospitalized for COVID this summer were unvaccinated, according to a new report.fortune.com
He mostly lives on the board up north. The dewormer must be working better up there? He/they sure do get around. You might say, it's like having 12 different rides each day. Never know who(m) is going to show up.
45 = 'Dr. Death'. I'm guessing his (phony) tax returns are of no interest to you? Wish I could get away with paying as little taxes as him, & telling everyone otherwise. If he donated to Putin's reelection campaign, you would still defend him, right?
The only thing that will make this crap go away. @Libertystrong
One of the things this pandemic should be making us come to grips with is that our current health care system is just not designed to handle a sudden influx of emergency patients. That's the nature of a system that has to watch its budget. It's not cost-effective to have extra nurses and doctors and beds and oxygen tanks just sitting around in case we need them. It's only sensible to have as much on hand as we can expect to need on a normal day. So emergencies stress the system.
This pandemic is one of the things that makes me think that, even in a market-dominated social structure, perhaps health care is one of those things that should simply be socialized for the common good. Like fire protection or police. We all know there are certain services that simply don't lend themselves to capitalism in a civilized society. I think health care might be one of them.
Maybe there's a way to have "separate" systems. I don't know enough about the admin/logistics to know. I have read enough and have enough doctor friends to know that socializing medicine is something that would take many many years to happen. Almost generational. It's entrenched culturally from expectations as to doctor's compensation to the massive private insurance industry. There are so many moving parts that as appealing as it may be I just don't see it happening in my lifetime.
Probably true. Change always takes time, and healthcare is a slow-moving ecosystem, despite what we hear about fast-tracked vaccines and the like.
Agreed. And it's anecdotal but would you want to be a doctor? My buddy is an ER doctor at a major hospital. Super smart guy. Miserable life. Worked so hard to get where he is - the hours are shit, it's stressful, takes forever to start making money, residencies are uber competitive to land, blah blah blah. It's not an easy life. And from what I read the shortage of docs is only going to get worse.
Meh, I'd rather be a doctor than a lawyer, I guess. But I'd rather be a landscaper than either, so I'm not the best guy to ask.
Can you get a government guaranteed loan for an old pickup, a used low boy trailer, and a Bobcat?
I've done some landscaping (& related farm/orchard type work, planting, harvesting, ect., ect..., & by hand, in the old days, hard work), & though the sun, great outdoors & fresh air can do wonders for your health, the long hours, physical stress & daily grind can still get to you, just like most other jobs. Landscapers have deadlines, clients, profit margins, injuries & bottom lines, just like the rest of us.
Maybe the Bobcat, they may as well be made of gold, if it runs good? I rent property to an excavating co., & their Bobcat is like a multitool. I'm sure you've found out, having them repaired can cost an arm & leg, & the wait can be a headache as well.
If IU goes down today, 24-17, & Penix has more picks than TDs, does Allen replace him next week? What if IU wins 13-10, & Penix has more combined fumbles & picks, than TDs? What if IU wins 30-27, & Penix has more picks than TDs? If he's going to thrive in the NFL, he'll have to run less, & pass more. Big or small, when QBs keep running too much, it usually ends the same way. Not For Long.
