Did Covid-19 Stress ICUs in an Unprecedented Way? — Mickey Z.

Mickey Z. — World News Trust

September 24, 2021

Consider this recent headline: “A severe Covid season is stretching hospitals thin. That is a very bad omen.” The article begins: “A tsunami of sick people has swamped hospitals in many parts of the country in recent weeks as a severe Covid season has taken hold. In Rhode Island, hospitals diverted ambulances for a period because they were overcome with patients. In San Diego, a hospital erected a tent outside its emergency room to manage an influx of people with symptoms. Wait times at scores of hospitals have gotten longer. What does that tell us about the ability of hospitals to handle the next pandemic?”

Covid-19 has really done a number on our health care system, huh? Just the brief paragraph above is enough to silence any of those wacky vaccine or mask skeptics, right? Right? Well… actually, I did some minor edits above. The paragraph in question was written in January 2018 and the reporter was writing about just another flu season. Here’s the real version: 

“A severe flu season is stretching hospitals thin. That is a very bad omen.” The article begins: “A tsunami of sick people has swamped hospitals in many parts of the country in recent weeks as a severe flu season has taken hold. In Rhode Island, hospitals diverted ambulances for a period because they were overcome with patients. In San Diego, a hospital erected a tent outside its emergency room to manage an influx of people with flu symptoms. Wait times at scores of hospitals have gotten longer. But if something as foreseeable as a flu season — albeit one that is pretty severe — is stretching health care to its limits, what does that tell us about the ability of hospitals to handle the next flu pandemic?”

A major part of Covid-19 scare tactics is the narrative about overflowing hospitals and intensive care units (ICUs). But, like everything in the media, it lacks context in the name of fulfilling an agenda. For example, when the media reports that only X amount of ICU beds are available in a particular state, you’re expected to freak out. They do not want you to look up how many ICU beds there are in that state and how often they’re filled to capacity — and why. Did you know, for example, that half of the low-income communities have no ICU beds?

So yeah, it was terrible to hear about Covid patients being denied beds but that was NOT a sign of how dangerous Covid is or was. It’s a sign of how dangerous our health care system is — and a sign of how much the threat of Covid-19 has been willfully exaggerated. With these facts staring you in the face, when will YOU begin to ask questions?

(Thank you to my friend Ed for alerting me to the articles cited herein.)

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(The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of World News Trust.)