That actually never happened here in NJ. While the hospitals and their staffs were very busy (probably overworked), most of the extra beds and staff provided by the Army Corp were never really utilized. I believe at most, the hospital ship never had more than a dozen or so people.
Speaking as someone who has spent way to much time in and out of hospitals lately with family and in-laws, the healthcare system has been devastated in this state for well over a decade.
You don’t seem to mind criticizing the federal government leaders. When the State leaders had access to the same science as the feds, many didn’t even know what resources they actually had in their own state or how to utilize it.
As I said before there is plenty of blame to go around on both sides, but it really doesn’t help the situation. The problem at this point looking backward is we don’t know what we don’t know. I believe the virus had a much bigger head start than anyone in this and other countries realized, and the China government in league with the WHO tried to cover things up.
I have friends who were in China at the time who knew more about it then we did. In the mean time we had 100s of thousands (some say more than 700,000 of people from China visiting us here and other countries around the world. We know this to be true.
I actually changed my location because some Canadian dude was heckling me a little about owning lasers over 1 milliwatt. Didn’t want the guy stalking me or reporting me to the po po
I used the word murder because another member used that word to describe the decision to transfer patients to nursing homes.
Many people in certain media circles spread the story that the governors critical of the federal government response weren’t aware of the resources available in their states. So many in the public believe it. But that notion came from the US administration to deflect the criticism it was getting at the time. In reality, the governors were very knowledgeable about the resources available to them.
Governor Hogan of Maryland, for example, was accused by the administration of being unaware of certain hospitals with usable beds in his state. In reality, he called all of those hospitals, and was told their beds were reserved by federal regulations (for veterans, for example) and other legal restrictions and couldn’t be used for COVID patients. The federal government was responsible for releasing those restrictions, but had not done so.
I’m not against either the federal or state governments. I’m against false information, that’s all.
Ya right?? I have a couple blue lasers and I do a little wood burning and stuff. Never shined them at an animal, person, vehicle or a building. The idiots shooting them at planes are the problem
I think everyone will eventually get exposed to it. No way will they create and test a vaccine and vaccinate all ~ 270 million people in the US before I end up getting exposed to it. I’m focusing on staying as healthy as possible - healthy food, lots of fresh air and exercise, etc
