People will never understand if we do not tell the truth about how bad it really is

[BoyNextDoor]

https://www.npr.org/sections/corona...arm-i-have-never-ever-seen-anything-like-this


... The emergency room overflowed with patients. Then, the next wave arrived. This time on stretchers. "They were lined up along the walls in the ER," a health care worker inside a Navicent Health-owned hospital in middle Georgia told GPB News. "We never have had an influx like that. Since the Fourth of July, it has just exploded."

Staff members did what they always do. They tended to patients as best they could. For the sickest patients, staff searched for available beds in nearby hospitals. In previous weeks, the health care worker said, COVID-19 patients typically got transported to medical centers about 70 miles north to Atlanta or 160 miles east to Savannah.

This week, there was no room. Desperate, the health care worker said, administrators began checking available hospitals in Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida. The distance stretched more than 850 miles north to south, from Louisville, Ky., down to Orlando, Fla. "When you have to start shipping patients out of state, it's bad," the worker said. "When the hospitals are full, that's when it becomes really dangerous for everybody."

The Navicent employee approached GPB News late Wednesday, saying hospital systems are not providing an accurate reflection of what staffers are seeing inside the walls of medical centers overrun with patients. The employee spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of getting fired, and NPR is not identifying the Navicent hospital where the employee works to maintain that person's anonymity.

"People will never understand if we do not tell the truth about how bad it really is," the employee said. "That's what makes us so angry."

 

[Rightguide]

Most of those hospitals that are crowded now are filled with elective surgeries and treatments that were postponed during the pandemic. Hospitals want to be crowded, it's how they stay alive economically. Ask any doctor, its normal that ICUs are 80 to 90% crowded.

 

[Bad_Egg]

But the protests were imperative to ending racism. Covid-19 should've understood!

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[Trumpedo]

Most of those hospitals that are crowded now are filled with elective surgeries and treatments that were postponed during the pandemic. Hospitals want to be crowded, it's how they stay alive economically. Ask any doctor, its normal that ICUs are 80 to 90% crowded.

You're a moron.

 

[Trumpedo]

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You're gav.

 

[Sean]

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Notice thos people are all outside and wearing masks?

 

[Rightguide]

Notice thos people are all outside and wearing masks?

All of them ready to commit a felony.

 

[hogjack]

Oh the humanity!

 

[hogjack]

https://www.npr.org/sections/corona...arm-i-have-never-ever-seen-anything-like-this[/I]

NPR is a lying sack of propaganda shitstain on America.

 

[WillJ8787]

It's amazing how many people only get info from one or two sources of information from unqualified sources. Even Fox is reporting how bad the hospital situation is...you would never know this if you didn't listen to Fox daytime news vs. Fox commentary shows like Hannity and Carlson.

We are screwed as a country. Chuck Todd had a good monologue on the crisis on Sunday morning though he mistakenly called the US public one of the most educated in the world. His premise wrong...70% has no higher education.

This is why we are in dire straights...the public has an inability to gather factual, verifiable information and is easy duped by media sources on their devices and which they addicted to. Some of these folks are here and have no understanding of how hospitals work(or don't), the short comings of our healthcare system, insurance system.

It's too bad cause a lot more people are going to die and this crisis is going to get completely out of control like people can't even imagine yet come fall when public and private schools attempt to re-open.

 

[Lazaran]

It's amazing how many people only get info from one or two sources of information from unqualified sources. Even Fox is reporting how bad the hospital situation is...you would never know this if you didn't listen to Fox daytime news vs. Fox commentary shows like Hannity and Carlson.

We are screwed as a country. Chuck Todd had a good monologue on the crisis on Sunday morning though he mistakenly called the US public one of the most educated in the world. His premise wrong...70% has no higher education.

This is why we are in dire straights...the public has an inability to gather factual, verifiable information and is easy duped by media sources on their devices and which they addicted to. Some of these folks are here and have no understanding of how hospitals work(or don't), the short comings of our healthcare system, insurance system.

It's too bad cause a lot more people are going to die and this crisis is going to get completely out of control like people can't even imagine yet come fall when public and private schools attempt to re-open.

Take heart friend, the wealthy are ipersonally nvested in getting a vaccine and therapeutics developed so there's a better than 50-50 chance that the worst is almost over. If the country can get through this next Flu season without overwhelming the healthcare system, an effective vaccine should be available to get the country to the level of herd immunity needed for life to return to some semblance of normality.

There also seems to be some movement on social issues so maybe that crisis will be mitigated as well.

 

[Bad_Egg]

If I was, then "Gav" has gotten you banned 6 times and Rory once.

You're gav.

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[Bad_Egg]

Masks work 100%? And those who do get sick when they don't never spread it?

Notice thos people are all outside and wearing masks?

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[KeithD]

There also seems to be some movement on social issues so maybe that crisis will be mitigated as well.

And with luck, the major coronavirus response problem in the United States--Donald Trump--will be out of the White House and well onto his way to the mental ward of a federal prison.

 

[Wrong Element]

Most of those hospitals that are crowded now are filled with elective surgeries and treatments that were postponed during the pandemic. Hospitals want to be crowded, it's how they stay alive economically. Ask any doctor, its normal that ICUs are 80 to 90% crowded.

I sort of agree (though I think 80 to 90 percent would be pushing it). The problem is that there's normally a predictable amount of acute disease out in the world. Several people showing up at a hospital daily, with a brand new disease that couldn't have been planned for and in need of an ICU bed, is not something any facility can handle for an indefinite period of time.

 

[Comshaw]

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While I understand your attempt at being a visual Hog Jack clone, I only have enough tolerance for one of that ilk.

Comshaw

 

[Bad_Egg]

While I understand your attempt at being a visual Hog Jack clone, I only have enough tolerance for one of that ilk.

Comshaw

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[RobDownSouth]

Most of those hospitals that are crowded now are filled with elective surgeries and treatments that were postponed during the pandemic. Hospitals want to be crowded, it's how they stay alive economically. Ask any doctor, its normal that ICUs are 80 to 90% crowded.

You are full of shit and bring dishonor to yourself, your family name, and your Parris Island DI.

Was talking to someone yesterday about a brand new "specialty Covid" ward at a major hospital here in Houston. 16 beds, 15 occupied...all of them Type 1 diabetic Covid patients on respirators with custom insulin drips.

So much for Trump's "return to normal".

 

[zipman]

I sort of agree (though I think 80 to 90 percent would be pushing it). The problem is that there's normally a predictable amount of acute disease out in the world. Several people showing up at a hospital daily, with a brand new disease that couldn't have been planned for and in need of an ICU bed, is not something any facility can handle for an indefinite period of time.

The desired occupancy of an ICU from the hospital's perspective is 70% and they never want to go over 90% because not only are they too close to capacity but it puts a strain on nursing resources. If they go over 100% the quality of care is compromised.

 

[Conager]

I'll put you down for, "still afraid."

 

[RobDownSouth]

I'll put you down for, "still afraid."

Speaking of "still afraid", did you ever get around to addressing badbabysitter calling you a racist? Your infamous quote is in her signature. Your silence would appear to speak volumes.

 

[Saint_Ann]

Speaking of "still afraid", did you ever get around to addressing badbabysitter calling you a racist? Your infamous quote is in her signature. Your silence would appear to speak volumes.

^
Calls people racist yet hates homos, trannies and retards.

 

[jomar]

NPR is a lying sack of propaganda shitstain on America.

Cite?

 

[SpeareChucker]

Notice thos people are all outside and wearing masks?

Actually, when you look closely
only some of those people are wearing masks...


But I will give you this,
when they go to rioting, looting, burning and assaulting the police,
they most certainly do wear masks...


But people going to church in masks
represented a clear and present danger to the health of others.


A tale of two First Amendments.

 

[SpeareChucker]

Cite?

NPR has a culture that closely resembles that of the NYT...


https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter


"But the lessons that ought to have followed the election—lessons about the importance of understanding other Americans, the necessity of resisting tribalism, and the centrality of the free exchange of ideas to a democratic society—have not been learned. Instead, a new consensus has emerged in the press, but perhaps especially at this paper: that truth isn’t a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else."


Since this "pandemic" has been politicized and turned into an issue where Trump
is a villain and Cuomo a hero (despite what he did to the elderly) it is not a
stretch to assume that NPR is, indeed, presenting truth as they see it.