Hutch Starskey
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Possibly but we are not really seeing a large spike in the hospitalizations or deaths yet. If we never reach capacity then we do not need lock downs as they were never meant to stop the virus but rather to ensure hospitals were not overrun. This little fact seems to have been forgotten 10 seconds after they were instituted. Of course, those are lagging indicators as you point out but if the new infections are centered around a younger population then we are unlikely to see any real spike in hospitalizations or deaths. I don't think we know enough yet to properly react.Fact is only about 50% of the beds are being used. Because the hospitals are only using enough nurses to monitor that many. They can call in more if needed. Don't let the facts get in the way of your lies.Many states are seeing a huge surge in cases of Covid-19. If you want to call full hospital beds "fake news", that is up to you.
But please don't pretend you are posting facts.Derp...Fact is only about 50% of the beds are being used. Because the hospitals are only using enough nurses to monitor that many. They can call in more if needed. Don't let the facts get in the way of your lies.
Yes but of course as new cases rise, so will the number of hospitilizations.
Something that is really bullshit is the shifting narrative from deaths to hospitalizations to number of infected in the media just to sensationalize the news on this. The media throughout this entire thing has been about as useful as Trump's press conferences. Neither have any real connection to reality.
Yet. That's the key. Hospitilizations and deaths are lagging indicators. It takes time for those currently infected to require hispitalization and even longer for those sickest to die.Possibly but we are not really seeing a large spike in the hospitalizations or deaths yet.
The spikes are coming.
I don't see any shifts for sensationalism. Only as the number of infected dropped, the focus then shifted to the lagging indicators.
Cases are back to an all time high so now they're focused on new cases.
The news is in what is happening with the numbers. What should they report instead?
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