For months on end AK crowed about all the empty beds. It was some sort of virtue signal that capacity was wide open and beds were going begging. Now, there is not a spare bedpan or folding cot without people lined up for it. It is to the point that medivac to SEA is no longer happening, since those hospitals are at capacity. Somebody is getting very wealthy off the sick an dying.
Clay inter urinas et faeces nascimur > On Dec 21, 2020, at 10:40 AM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > My understanding of the hospital bed "shortage" is that hospitals are > businesses, and having an empty bed "just because" is a money losing > proposition. Thus the number of available beds is set based on demand and > forecasted demand. Chicken Little crying about the sky is falling because > hospital beds are nearly full / nearly at capacity is deceptive > fear-mongering. When the demand exists, hospitals will meet it. Back at > the start of this panic, the US. Navy hospital ships were mobilized, one to > each coast, and they were not used to treat Wuhan Red Death patients. That > would be a money losing proposition for the hospitals, so no one should be > surprised. > ------------- _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
