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Originally Posted by ImperialxRat
My girlfriend is an ER nurse in SoCal, specifically Riverside County. Occupancy rates are really low at her hospital and others in the county. A few of them have already furloughed a bunch of employees and my girlfriend also just got a notice that they will begin furloughs at her hospital and in her department.
They setup a covid wing at her hospital which has patients, but the rest of the hospital has seen decreases in people coming in... people are staying at home unless really sick and the hospitals here are bleeding cash like every other industry.
I stated this weeks ago in another post and I will do so again here; the way we are approaching this WILL KILL FAR, FAR MORE people than the disease itself.
We are being set up for a massive economic depression, which will result in a tidal wave of joblessness, homelessness, depression, suicides, drug and alcohol abuse, malnutrition, domestic violence, criminality, the closure of hospitals and other medical facilities, loss of access to adequate healthcare, and on and on.
Nobody wants to lose a loved one, but sorry, saving 10,000 or a 100,000 just to kill 2 or 3 million and turn the US into Venezuela makes no sense. But that’s just me, I guess.
And you are right. Hospitals outside of a couple hotspots are absolutely EMPTY, and a lot of them will be closing their doors, or at least putting a lot of healthcare workers on the street.