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0 pointsdrewg1234y ago0 comments

Ask people who have waited for health care, or had loved ones die due to delayed care.

Hospitals were closed due to inactivity LAST YEAR, before vaccines, because people were AFRAID TO GET COVID and expected to get it when going to a hospital.

I can assure you that the hospital I'm in has no closed floors.

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ecommerceguy4y ago· 3 in thread

Those floors are still closed Drew, and my sister is still pissed off about it.

You've been on all of the floors in that hospital? <- Notice Drew cannot say this for sure.

>>because people were AFRAID TO GET COVID and expected to get it when going to a hospital.

Wrong, one of the floors closed was the 7th floor where heart attack and stroke patients go. They closed due to lack of patients having heart attacks and strokes. These floors could be open right now and taking capacity from other full floors and hospitals.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7581311/#:~:tex....

I'll add that they laid off a number of staff, many of which have not been added back on. In this hospital and many others, square footage is at a premium because operational capacity has been reduced.

geofft4y ago

From the link you provide:

> In the midst of a pandemic, the advice from medical professionals to “stay home, save lives” may be preventing patients from seeking medical care when symptoms of stroke arise due to fear of contracting COVID-19. Anecdotal reports across the United States are highlighting missed care during the current COVID-19 pandemic...

i.e., yes, "people are afraid to get covid and expect to get it when going to a hospital" is an accurate description. The lack of patients having heart attacks and strokes is a lack of people willing to go to a hospital, not a lack of heart attacks and strokes.

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belltaco4y ago

So hospitals should take financial losses(or get govt handouts to compensate) but people shouldn't need to get a jab in order not to end up in one?

stjohnswarts4y ago

Yeah, basically your freedom (to not get vaxxed) shouldn't overrule society's freedom as a whole to move on and get back to a decent semblance of what it was .

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