Mac, you know I'm no Tumpster, but I have a legitimate question for you or anybody else out on the board. If most of the cases in this surge are the Omicron thing, and it is indeed a milder form that most people recover from, when treated at home, like the Flu, with bed rest, drinking lots of fluids, taking pain relievers/fever reducers and there being medical treatments, such as trump opted for (instead of going with the pseudoscience crap he recommended mostly to make fun of the threat) that do not even require you to stay in the hospital once administered, - Why are the hospitals in some areas (not here, by the way) overflowing? Is the threshold for keeping people lower, just because it is a form of Covid, or have we been misinformed about Omicron's attack on the body being less than any of the previous Covid strains?
I'm really not trying to start some shit. I know Covid to be very serious, have had it myself and seen what seemed to be people of normal health a week earlier, die literally right in front of me, unable to breath after a sudden unexpected change in the condition they had only been experiencing for a few days. So, what's the deal? People trying to self treat until the suddenly finding out Omicron has same potential to super critical superfast, or people panicking, going to the ER and being kept, when normally they would have gotten treatment and sent home? What??