My son visited every week 2 large hospitals in a major U.S. city for several years, as an outside contractor for a particular maintenance work. When Covid hit, he was required to enter through the emergency room doors, rather than the other entrances he used previously. He told us the emergency rooms were empty, not filled with sick peop…
My son visited every week 2 large hospitals in a major U.S. city for several years, as an outside contractor for a particular maintenance work. When Covid hit, he was required to enter through the emergency room doors, rather than the other entrances he used previously. He told us the emergency rooms were empty, not filled with sick people. That's one way we knew the news was lying. We also knew an experienced emergency room dr who was laid off in 2020 due to not enough patients!!
Thank you for that remarkable bit of first hand information. I think there were instances where policy makers were making decisions based on models and projections when they should have done what your son did, that is looked at reality. I think Berenson in his book, Pandemia, noted a disconnect between an actual hospital census and the overblown models used to make bad policy. Apparently theories outweigh facts with these people.
My son visited every week 2 large hospitals in a major U.S. city for several years, as an outside contractor for a particular maintenance work. When Covid hit, he was required to enter through the emergency room doors, rather than the other entrances he used previously. He told us the emergency rooms were empty, not filled with sick people. That's one way we knew the news was lying. We also knew an experienced emergency room dr who was laid off in 2020 due to not enough patients!!
Thank you for that remarkable bit of first hand information. I think there were instances where policy makers were making decisions based on models and projections when they should have done what your son did, that is looked at reality. I think Berenson in his book, Pandemia, noted a disconnect between an actual hospital census and the overblown models used to make bad policy. Apparently theories outweigh facts with these people.
Theories might bring in more money than inconvenient facts in some instances. A few billion dollars has a lot of gravity.