Speaking of the medical community, we keep hearing about the "cataclysmic" numbers in Florida hospitals (just like we did last year). Words/phrases like "warzone" and "people turned away" and "corpse trucks" (all bullshit, of course) were/are thrown around to elicit an emotional response.
You're meant to read the emotional articles and come away outraged and scared (because that's what keeps you coming back and clicking, driving revenue for them). The Covid cultists like GWB then latch on to this hook, line and sinker and run with it, shouting to anyone who will listen (and most who don't want to) about the end of times.
From HHS, total hospital occupancy data.
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https://protect-public.hhs.gov/pages/hospital-utilization
Enter any hospital or any geographical area and you'll get a result. At first glance, you will note that many states appear in the 70% or more Inpatient Beds Occupied category. The news media (and the COVID cultists) will tell you that this is because it is a WARZONE. No, not really.
Hospitals run a for-profit model. Its a bit warped, but think of it as you would a hotel. A hotel that runs a large amount of rooms empty for a long time doesn't stay in business for long. So it is with hospitals. They make money on treating patients. Hospitals, in general aren't not-for-profit, they are
for-profit. Which means elective surgery (think hip replacement or removing kidney stones, etc) take up a good portion of the beds. If you google "examples of elective surgery" you will be surprised what is considered "elective". I was.
These are all the procedures that were frozen when COVID first surfaced, and why we saw all those videos and pictures of hospital staff in empty hallways. The staff that handled these procedures were furloughed and many lost their jobs. The ones that handled ICU patients were a different story.
So don't get all crazy when you see hospitals at 70%+ capacity. That's the model in which they operate. They want to be 90-95%.
