Re:Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates
by stronglikedan on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @03:07PM
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The thing is, hospitals aren't overwhelmed. Sure, maybe a handful in the most metropolitan of areas, but should the whole country pay for that? I don't think so. Of course, the news makes it seem like hospitals around the country are overwhelmed, but that's just agenda-based sensationalism, and should be taken with a grain of salt.
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Re:Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates
by FireBeyond on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @04:05PM
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As a critical care paramedic in a semi-rural area, most non-metropolitan hospitals are ill equipped to care for acute respiratory patients, and ship them to metropolitan hospitals.
To quote you: "Should the whole country pay for that", too?
Or maybe those metropolitan hospitals should say "sucks to be you", and let's just see how quickly those rural hospitals collapse under the weight.
My local ER, which is certainly not "in the most metropolitan of areas", which used to _never_ have a bed unavailable, has got to the point where ambulance crews _routinely_ (as in dozens of times, every single day) spend 2 to 6 HOURS with a patient in a hallway, "holding up a wall" (and unable to respond to calls in their community), until the ER can free a bed for them.
Anecdotal, I'm sure you'll scream. But "agenda-based sensationalism" is also entirely your opinion, too.