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Originally Posted by Knobcrk1
It depends on where you’re at and how populated your county is. Porter County, South Dakota where your neighbor lives 5 miles away is doing pretty good. Totally understandable why they might think this is a hoax and the news is messing with them. At the populated counties, where MOST of the population lives is 20 to 50%+ Covid patients and near capacity for many of the major city hospitals.
OK, just so we are clear - not a hoax. Not from South Dakota. (although I thought you said SD was out of control because of the Sturgis rally? Is it all OK now? I don't live there)
COVID-19 exists. is it Ebola? not close. Is it worth shutting down the hospitality, education, transportation, and assorted commercial enterprises in a misguided attempt to "control"? Nope, and not possible anyway. Look at how great all your lockdown darlings are doing. Do I think the news is messing with me? Not intentionally, but you realize news is all about getting ratings, and you get better ratings with hysteria than with everything is fine - so - like others have said, I prefer to look at the raw numbers, not the TODAY show spin/hype "go wash your groceries" reporting.
LIke others have said, hospitals are not designed to have a lot of excess capacity - too inefficient. So am I surprised they are filling up with COVID patients right now during flu season (and incidentally, flu is down? weird). Nope. Am I terrified? Nope. Does it make a good story though, to show the crying nurses every morning on TV? Absolutely.
Also FWIW, it is not the major city hospitals like you suggest that are struggling - again you are way off - the hospitals with the largest percentage of COVID-19 cases among admissions are Pawnee KS, Arenac MI, Tiaoga Pa, Campbell County KY. Feel free to check next time before posting - go down the list - these are not the counties with the "big cites" in them as you suggest. They are the small time areas of the country that are having trouble making hospitals profitable to begin with -
https://carlsonschool.umn.edu/mili-m...acking-project
In summary - wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. Try again.