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Paul Mueller's avatar

The act of control is coming from the politicians that don't want a panic. We all saw documentaries on hospitals in covid overload and if that had been widespread knowledge the public would have gone crazy with fear. Toilet paper shortage was one result.

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Sheryl Rhodes's avatar

"We all saw documentaries on hospitals in covid overload."

Do you realize the implications of what you just wrote? Yes, indeed, they made sure that we ALL SAW stressed hospitals, doomsday interviews, and tragic individual cases. We were deliberately fed panic-porn 24/7.

But where were the documentaries about the deserted hospitals? About the warehouses full of unused ventilators? About the stupid-ass policies of putting sick patients back into nursing home environments while they were still contagious? About the people suiciding from lockdown-induced despair?

Where were the documentaries showing stories of hope? Showing promising early treatments discovered by doctors doing their best to help their patients with something more than advice to go home and hope not to die? Showing countries that didn't "lock down" and yet didn't have catastrophic levels of death as a result? Showing how the initial models of estimated death rates--the estimations that threw the western world straight into blind panic--were quickly shown to be overblown by orders of magnitude?

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Paul Mueller's avatar

There are none because that's not what happened. Unless the places where people were already isolated they got sick. Even New Zealand wasn't able to escape from Covid.

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Paulette Altmaier's avatar

Omg. Youre a covid narrative ninny who still does not know the facts and the data. Your disinformation is not welcome.

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Paul Mueller's avatar

So in other words "Anyone who disagrees with me"

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Paulette Altmaier's avatar

No. The data is what disagrees with you.

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Lori P. Clark's avatar

There was no overflowing ers during 2020. I was there, I know. Not a single person was admitted to the pop up tent. Not one. The ers were empty until flu season in October. And then they exploded after vaccination began. So.

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Paul Mueller's avatar

Depending on where you were the levels of people admitted were indeed different.

Watch the British series "Breathtaking" to see what asses politicians can be when they think they know what's best, and are trying to control the narrative in a situation that is out of control.

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Paul Mueller's avatar

Covid vaccination didn't begin until December 2020. So what are you talking about happening in October?

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ts1213's avatar

Were some of these documentaries just manufactured. I understand a lot of hospitals were not, in fact, overloaded as we were led to believe they were.

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Paul Mueller's avatar

Some were at capacity and some weren't. In Portland they were farther out where there were less populated areas the effect was less but still higher than they could handle no one was "turned away" but other patients with less severe conditions were. I had several surgical procedures canceled because my space was needed for covid treatment areas.

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Paul Mueller's avatar

I typed this into Google and didn't find a single article about a hospital having no issues with covid overload. No one was put in tents but it did come close in some cities.

"places where hospitals covid patient load wasn't severe"

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