Please read the entire post - all the way to the end - before you judge me.
I need to rethink things. People have been shaming me for years now for speaking up against the COVID-19 policies and panics.
Hospitals! Hospitals are overwhelmed they said!
They may be right, after all. I have to share some quotes about our hospitals I've been reading.
These are actual quotes from reports I've read. I don't know why I've been ignoring this. Let me say that I'm serious about my respect for frontline workers. I'm confident THEY are NOT the ones who called for us to lose our jobs so they can do theirs.
Politicians did that.
But it’s getting harder and harder to ignore the serious AND UNPRECEDENTED impact our hospitals our witnessing.
Read ALL THE WAY THROUGH.
"Tallia says his hospital is 'managing, but just barely,' at keeping up with the increased number of sick patients in the last three weeks. The hospital’s urgent-care centers have also been inundated, and its outpatient clinics have no appointments available.”
From UAB:
"Dr. Bernard Camins, associate professor of infectious diseases at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, says that UAB Hospital cancelled elective surgeries scheduled for Thursday and Friday of last week to make more beds available"
These are always disturbing:
“We had to treat patients in places where we normally wouldn’t, like in recovery rooms,” says Camins. “The emergency room was very crowded, both with sick patients who needed to be admitted”
Near me:
"In CA… several hospitals have set up large 'surge tents' outside their emergency departments to accommodate and treat … patients. Even then, the LA Times reported this week, emergency departments had standing-room only, and some patients had to be treated in hallways.”
MO is hurting:
"In Fenton, Missouri, SSM Health St. Clare Hospital has opened its emergency overflow wing, as well as all outpatient centers and surgical holding centers, to make more beds available to patients who need them. Nurses are being “pulled from all floors to care for them, “it’s making their pre-existing conditions worse,” she says. “More and more patients are needing mechanical ventilation due to respiratory failure”
South of Los Angeles. No respite there:
"From Laguna Beach to Long Beach, emergency rooms were struggling to cope with the overwhelming cases… and had gone into 'diversion mode,' during which ambulances are sent to other hospitals.”
When they turn ambulances away - you know something is afoot:
“Hospitals across the state are sending away ambulances, flying in nurses from out of state and not letting children visit their loved ones for fear they’ll spread… Others are canceling surgeries and erecting tents in their parking lots to triage the hordes of… patients.”
Warzone:
“There’s a little bit of a feeling of being in the trenches. We’re really battling these infections to try to get them under control,” McKinnell said. “We’re still not sure if this is going to continue …”
Texas:
"At Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, waiting rooms turned into exam areas as a medical tent was built in order to deal with the surge of patients. A Houston doctor said local hospital beds were at capacity. Dr. Anthony Marinelli says they've seen a major spike in… cases. It's so overwhelmed the community hospital that they've gone on bypass at times -- that means they tell ambulances to bypass this ER and find another.”
Overwhelmed:
“Dr. Atallah, the chief of emergency medicine at Grady, says the hospital called on a mobile emergency department based nearly 250 miles away to help tackle the increasing patient demand. At 500-plus patients a day you physically just need the space to put a patient in.”
“We’ve never had so many patients,” said Adrian Cotton, chief of medical operations at Loma Linda University Health in San Bernardino County.”
Outdoor triage:
“...at least one hospital has set up an outdoor triage tent to handle the overflow of people” “In Long Beach, hospitals have started visitor restrictions. In the South Bay, a conference center has been transformed into an ambulatory clinic.”
No in-person visits. Things are serious:
We have signage set up all over the hospital to inform patients that, if they have any family members with even signs of symptoms, not to visit” “Loma Linda emergency physicians are seeing about 60 more patients a day than usual, Cotton said. About 150 patients have so far been treated in the tent, which is staffed according to the number of people inside. It’s expected to be up [for months].”
Big increases
“As the main emergency room gets full, patients are moved to the tent. For example, a patient who comes in with a broken arm is likely to be treated inside the tent, he said. Visitor restrictions have also been implemented. The county saw a 300-percent increase”
Right down the street from me:
“Overflow tents also have emerged in San Diego County hospitals. Though they haven’t pitched tents, most hospitals across Southern California have set up overflow areas inside their facilities.”
Our workers are incredible and I know they've been trained to deal with this. But maybe the lockdown folks are correct. Maybe we opened up too quickly. Maybe we should stay in shutdown mode. I mean nothing like this has ever happened to our hospitals before?!
Except these are all quotes from the 2018 flu season! (example) Healthcare workers are amazing. I know they can do their jobs without the rest of us having to forfeit our lives. No more lockdowns. Get the kids back to school. We got this.
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I'd add this, Justin. In the flu season of 2017-2018 (which peaked over four weeks in January 2018), hundreds of schools across the country closed due to illness. This might be expected as the flu season of 2017-2018 has been described as "the worst in 40 years."
However, per my original and exhaustive research, even more schools and school systems closed "due to illness" in the flu season of 2019-2020 ... BEFORE OFFICIAL COVID!
Also, local and national news stories were replete with stories of this very bad flu season - which began to spike in November 2019. In five Southern states, Influenza Like Illness was "severe" and "widespread" in November 2019.
This flu epidemic spread across virtually every U.S. state, where flu was reported as severe or widespread in at least 49 U.S. states at some point in this flu season. In my corner of Alabama, almost 13 percent of visits to the doctor in late January 2020 were due to ILI symptoms - this ILI percentage was approximately five times greater than the baseline expectation.
The key point is few people were dying from this widely and rapidly spreading respiratory virus. If even some percentage of these cases of "extra" sick people in the fall and winter of 2019-2020 were Covid, this proves this virus was NOT "deadly." We didn't need lockdowns; nor did we need an experimental mRNA "vaccine" to protect people's lives - Those lives were never at risk.
The risks - and then the huge increase in all-cause deaths - came from the iatrogenic Covid protocols and unnecessary panic. The government and experts caused those deaths.
Nice! I knew the hospital thing was fake when NYC sent away the Navy ship Trump sent there to help them with their "overflowing" hospitals. They never used it and sent it away. Told me everything I needed to know, and confirmed that "covid" was all about keeping Trump out of office.
Why did they do a 180 on "masks?" Because Trump said he wouldn't wear one and it became a way to demonize him and his supporters as lepers (which is why a flimsy paper mask was okay but not a neck gaiter). Why did we need to stay inside, stay away from others, and definitely not discuss any of it online? Because they needed mail-in ballot dumps to "win." Why did they demonize effective existing medications? Because they needed the EAU in order for the savior "vaccines" to be just around the corner so that people would comply with the lockdowns and attacks on speech.
As with these people, everything always comes back to holding onto power so that they can continue to start profitable wars. And Trump is the most antiwar President we've had in 60 years.
I'd add this, Justin. In the flu season of 2017-2018 (which peaked over four weeks in January 2018), hundreds of schools across the country closed due to illness. This might be expected as the flu season of 2017-2018 has been described as "the worst in 40 years."
However, per my original and exhaustive research, even more schools and school systems closed "due to illness" in the flu season of 2019-2020 ... BEFORE OFFICIAL COVID!
Also, local and national news stories were replete with stories of this very bad flu season - which began to spike in November 2019. In five Southern states, Influenza Like Illness was "severe" and "widespread" in November 2019.
This flu epidemic spread across virtually every U.S. state, where flu was reported as severe or widespread in at least 49 U.S. states at some point in this flu season. In my corner of Alabama, almost 13 percent of visits to the doctor in late January 2020 were due to ILI symptoms - this ILI percentage was approximately five times greater than the baseline expectation.
The key point is few people were dying from this widely and rapidly spreading respiratory virus. If even some percentage of these cases of "extra" sick people in the fall and winter of 2019-2020 were Covid, this proves this virus was NOT "deadly." We didn't need lockdowns; nor did we need an experimental mRNA "vaccine" to protect people's lives - Those lives were never at risk.
The risks - and then the huge increase in all-cause deaths - came from the iatrogenic Covid protocols and unnecessary panic. The government and experts caused those deaths.
LINKS:
“School closings galore documented:"
https://billricejr.substack.com/p/school-closings-galore-documented
“2019-2020 flu season was one of worst in many decades”:
https://billricejr.substack.com/p/flu-season-of-2019-2020-was-one-of
Nice! I knew the hospital thing was fake when NYC sent away the Navy ship Trump sent there to help them with their "overflowing" hospitals. They never used it and sent it away. Told me everything I needed to know, and confirmed that "covid" was all about keeping Trump out of office.
Why did they do a 180 on "masks?" Because Trump said he wouldn't wear one and it became a way to demonize him and his supporters as lepers (which is why a flimsy paper mask was okay but not a neck gaiter). Why did we need to stay inside, stay away from others, and definitely not discuss any of it online? Because they needed mail-in ballot dumps to "win." Why did they demonize effective existing medications? Because they needed the EAU in order for the savior "vaccines" to be just around the corner so that people would comply with the lockdowns and attacks on speech.
As with these people, everything always comes back to holding onto power so that they can continue to start profitable wars. And Trump is the most antiwar President we've had in 60 years.