the first wave’s bed shortage was solved with significant shutdowns in combination with the weather getting hotter and we’re not getting that this time. not to mention regular flu season is coming. looks bad, folks
a lot of the general population still doesn’t realize that the relationship between cases and deaths is NOT LINEAR once you stop being able to treat people and they’re dying in hallways
I work at a clinic in Liberal Acres, Iowa and we are already at basically maximum capacity. The turnover on beds are pretty high, we can get like ~50 patients out a day, but even with that we only have around 5 free beds in a day. If there is a surge in hospitalizations we literally aren’t going to have enough room for them.
Liberal Acres, Iowa
Is this dox repellant or is this like what the kids are calling NYC now or something - I’m not very cool
there was a funny post about opsec that accused everyone of living on Liberal Mountain
yes i saw some opsec post about it and I’m easily amused by geography lol
here it is
thank you comrade though I should note I’m not a doctor or nurse or anything. I don’t want to steal any valor from our overworked medics lol
I just caught the end of a news broadcast (in the UK) and it went something like:
*stern voice* and to recap our main headline: the UK’s coronavirus hospitalization rate is now beyond the government’s worst-case estimates
*cheery voice* and that’s all from me tonight, bye!
It was like something from Children of Men.
At least we’re taking it seriously now and implementing strict, easy-to-understand lockdown measures. I’m in a tier 2.7*-B area, so I’m not allowed to go to the pub with more than two guys called Dave unless there’s a full moon (without a good reason), and I’m strongly advised not to cough in people’s faces.
I’m so curious to see what happens to the medical system. It’s already staffed and supplied to the barest minimum levels. The workers were already burned out to the point of striking in early summer. Despite having a fair amount of experience in the field, I wouldn’t go back for the starvation wages they pay now with the added certainty of constant exposure. Even the performative bullshit of the daily clappers wore off so now there is only the resentment people feel toward NHS workers. Outpatient procedures make up like 50% of hospitals’ revenue and the largest hospital in my area had to reschedule a 10 minute outpatient procedure three times now due to the virus, and the first thing they’ll cut is their workforce. As the political collapse continues, skilled nurses and doctors are on the occupation lists accepted by most countries you’d want to flee to.
Thanks for sabotaging the effort for universal healthcare, Democrats.
More austerity will come.
Cuomo in NY bragged to the media that he wasn’t going to allow a pandemic to stop him from budget cuts and massive slashes to medicaid.
This entire pandemic has been a rude awakening for the US after decades of neoliberal austerity in defunding institutions and stripping them. Despite all the wealth the US has, it’s in the billionaire class. Our government since the Reagan era has been pushing their military and police budgets through the roof at the expense of stripping everything else. What we’ve ended up with is a highly authoritarian country with a militarized police and war industry, while we lack healthcare and other benefits.
DAE that in a socialist health-care system we could just train more and more healthcare workers until we had so fucking many of them they worked on like week on/week off schedules and shit?
27 deaths in Montana today, the equivalent of 810 dead Californians or 8,600 Americans.
About 3 to 5% of North Dakota has an active covid infection right now
This is really it
