I didn't see the discharge rate on this graph. And meaning absolutely no personal disrespect, it is very hard to believe that near-bankrupt hospitals do not have an incentive to admit.
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The news media is essentially high school gossip writ large, and it works on almost the exact same demegraphic of people who cared about it back in high school
Do you have any good resources/books on this type 9f stuff? I've just started reading up on the Fed, fractional reserve banking, etc in the last few months so I'm still wrapping my head around what's all going on behind the scenes in the monetary world. I agree though. From what I've dug up so far, the Fed et al have a much bigger influence on the way countries run than most people realize.
These people seem to have no concept of the fact that there are just as many "experts" who disagree with everything the media has been pushing this entire time.
In 200 years, I think people will look back and realize that the internet has had the same effect on destroying the authority of "the press" that the printing press had in destroying the authority of the Roman Catholic Church for a lot of Europeans.
Once they could read the Bible for themselves and saw all the shenanigans the RCC was up to, all sorts of stuff happened. The Holy Roman Empire fractured, Germany was divided, England started its own church, etc. Interesting to see how things fracture once people are able to read the information and come to their own conclusions.
Not saying they don’t, but hospitals get full when the discharge rate falls below the admission rate. At that point, patients accumulate in the hallways of the ER, which nobody likes, including hospital administrators. At that point they are turning away traumas and diverting ambulances (ie income) to other hospitals.
Admitting a patient who doesn’t require hospital level of care is insurance/Medicare fraud. Not saying it doesn’t happen, but there are big powerful interests who pore over billing and Medical records constantly to sniff this out. If I were doing this to keep my hospital afloat, I would do it in the way that makes the most money. And running at or near capacity is not it.
What I’m basically saying is that hitting capacity is not financially advantageous for hospitals. If I had to guess, I would say that 80% full is about the sweet spot for hospital finances.
When our hospital nears capacity, for example, a crawl comes across the top of every hospital computer instructing us to expedite discharges and to contact certain administrators to address barriers to discharge (slow test results etc). I have never seen an encouragement to admit patients.
In other words, hospitals work hard to empty themselves out. And the hip replacement example you gave would actually result in a delayed procedure and deferred or lost income for the hospital.
Anyone looked at this recently:
Provisional Death Counts for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
They added a new column to Table 1 - "Percent of Expected Deaths"
Very interesting, given the surge/spike/out-of-control increase/second wave/etc. of cases.
Also, just curious (totally unrelated) - did Governor Cuomo ever get the 30,000 ventilators he so desperately needed?
These scientism worshipping "TRUST THE EXPERTS" people are just so tiring. The world's "COVID response" has not been anything more than the mass illusion of safety and control. Don't worry folks; the experts got this under control, we will save everyone. Only a handful of nations and US states have acknowledged that we have no control over a respiratory virus. Countries like Sweden proceeded with scientific precedent and reason. The rest of the world bought into an illusion, destroyed the global economy, and ruined the lives of millions for a generation or more.
We're at least eight months into this outbreak, probably more, and it's clear that no mitigation strategies work. Masks, distancing, lockdown, you name it, there are no success stories definitively showing human mitigation efforts have done a goddamn thing, other than ruin many people's lives. No nation on earth has, or will, stop the spread short of achieving herd immunity. Mother nature wins, and we learned this shit in high school biology.
I mean California quite literally did everything these so-called "experts" and the panic-porn peddling media demanded they do, back in March/April. Yet, they are still "surging," according to their moron governor. So back into lockdown, they must go. Pay no attention to the declining death rate, or the hyper testing, or the obvious cooking of the books. Did someone die WITH COVID, or did they die FROM COVID? Are they Hospitalized WITH COVID, or are they hospitalized BECAUSE OF COVID? The lockdowns don't work; they didn't work, they are a farce, and will go down as perhaps the dumbest government decision in all of human history.
Please, for the love of God, can we stop "trusting the experts?" The politicians need to get out of the way! Individuals ought to be responsible and look out for their elderly family members, but the rest of us need to get on with our lives.
Mark, it gets hard to take you seriously on things like this, because when your conspiracy theories run headlong into the observations of people who actually have experience in these areas, you dismiss them. And then you mostly sound like the very people you hold in such contempt.
Yes to all you wrote. There is one final important question to ask of the experts.
If this communicable disease situation warrants this response, what similar or lesser situation does not warrant this response? If they can't specifically answer this quantitatively, they are frauds.
What would it take for Governor Newsome to ban the sale of tobacco?