I have 2 friends in ND right now with Covid. They feel fine and life is normal. Stop making Covid out to be anything other than the big nothing that it actually is.
I have 2 friends in ND right now with Covid. They feel fine and life is normal. Stop making Covid out to be anything other than the big nothing that it actually is.
This post is a shining example of a gullible person parroting establishment talking points (lies to those of us who speak English) and believing them to be his own thoughts.
[quote]a great northern run wrote:
I live in North Dakota. There's definitely something going on. My (Republican, 2A-loving) doctor friends say you do NOT want to be anywhere near a hospital right now. There's no capacity left.
Go visit your local hospitals and you will see this is BS.
Here in MA and NYC they were saying the same thing and people actually went to see for themselves and found there was nothing. Those who filmed it and out it on Youtube found there posts taken down and, in at least one instance, got arrested for filming outside a hospital
Uhhhhh what? I live in MA and my wife gave birth back in May when hospitals were pretty burdened. It was a total cluster and really terrifying.
My wife is also a physician and many of our friends are ER, internal medicine etc. physicians in the Boston area and they paint a VERY different picture than what you are saying here. All of this is anecdotal clearly but I would love to hear your description of how hospitals are functioning normally if you just go and see!
By the way... I’ll add I was at an UC on Monday. While waiting I saw a fight break out in the parking lot, a woman waiting in her car who had to be picked up by an ambulance, folks who had been waiting for 8+ hours despite having appointments to have someone swab them from their car and other assorted pandemonium. I waited for an hour then just left as it was clear that the demand for medical attention FAR exceeded the supply. I have been to this UC clinic many times and have never seen anything remotely like it.
Not sure how anyone could classify any of this as “normal”.
highhoppingworm wrote:
Uhhhhh what? I live in MA and my wife gave birth back in May when hospitals were pretty burdened. It was a total cluster and really terrifying.
My wife is also a physician and many of our friends are ER, internal medicine etc. physicians in the Boston area and they paint a VERY different picture than what you are saying here. All of this is anecdotal clearly but I would love to hear your description of how hospitals are functioning normally if you just go and see!
Horse apples. I was at MGH in late April at the peak and there was nothing going on.
I live near a hospital in Brockton MA -- nothing. If anything, far less ambulances than typical.'
A man was arrested at Children's hospital for filming and showing nothing was going on.
Why are you propping up the lie?
Lie? Definitely not lying... would you like to see a birth certificate? I agree that things were more relaxed over the summer but they were bad in the April May timeframe and seem to be returning to that state.
Dude. I have two options here:
1) Listen to my wife, an an infectious disease physician who has practiced in major medical centers for the bulk of her career and also had an inpatient stay at a hospital in May. Listen to our large network of physician friends in the Boston area, all of whom consistently say that they have never experienced anything like what they saw in the late spring during their long careers practicing medicine.
Or...
2) I could listen to some guy called “other guy” on a running forum who lives in Brockton and doesn’t like the MSM.
Tough choice, I’ll have to sleep on it.
highhoppingworm wrote:
Dude. I have two options here:
1) Listen to my wife, an an infectious disease physician who has practiced in major medical centers for the bulk of her career and also had an inpatient stay at a hospital in May. Listen to our large network of physician friends in the Boston area, all of whom consistently say that they have never experienced anything like what they saw in the late spring during their long careers practicing medicine.
Or...
2) I could listen to some guy called “other guy” on a running forum who lives in Brockton and doesn’t like the MSM.
Tough choice, I’ll have to sleep on it.
Or.
Stop lying and go out and see for yourself.
What exactly do you think I’m lying about here? Can you be specific? Are you insinuating that I don’t live in Arlington Ma? Or that we didn’t have a child in May or that I wasn’t at an UC on Monday? Can you be specific please?
That you have a "large network" of doctor friends that all say that Boston area hospitals "have never experienced anything like what they saw in the late spring during their long careers".
This is just not true so why would they all say it?
It is now accepted that Boston area hospitals were NOT swamped last April. Never happened
A team of analysts believes the Partners HealthCare network will not be overwhelmed with coronavirus patients after looking at data from their nine hospitals, including Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s, according to the Boston Globe.
We have a friend who (and her husband) is an ICU nurse at a hospital on the UWS here in NYC. She's an on-call nurse and her husband is fulltime. She hasn't worked since late spring. The hospitals in NYC are fine.
The numbers show a potential plateau in COVID-positive patients, according the hospital's doctors and mathematicians. Their projections predict the hospital will have about 376 coronavirus patients per day through the weekend, the Globe reported, with about 170 of them in the ICU.
A tiny % of the number of people that hospitals see each day
Cool. Believe whatever lunacy gets you through the day.
highhoppingworm wrote:
Cool. Believe whatever lunacy gets you through the day.
Caught in a lie.
Unless you are just gullible and your "large network" of doctor friends just lied to you.
I listed several mainstream sources stating that the hospitals were not overwhelmed, contradicting your claims.
Show some integrity and admit you were wrong
I’m unclear what you are doing posting these articles... there is a vast gulf between normal function and hospitals being “overwhelmed”. MA clearly did an exemplary job of flattening the curve but that doesn’t mean that area hospital were functioning “normally” in the late spring nor does it mean they will be functioning “normally” during the winter.
I pray that we don’t get to the point where infected practitioners are forced to work long hours due to political incompetence. I generally think Baker has done a decent job.
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