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Originally Posted by Ooloo
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At the beginning of the pandemic, when infections were highest, why was that emergency navy medical boat never even used? Why were the impromptu field hospitals barely used and eventually closed? Again I'm not saying this isn't an issue *anywhere*, it's just simply not a widespread issue; most hospitals are managing just fine. Also, most hospitals usually do operate at close to full capacity because it makes no financial sense to have hundreds of extra beds and equipment that are never used but have to be maintained and paid for.
So, sure, in some places they are overburdened due to covid, and that's unfortunate obviously I don't want people dying in the hallways, but it is not the apocalyptic issue people are making it out to be.
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1. Most hospitals ICUs absolutely do not operate at close to full capacity at all. It's a very bad thing if you're consistently operating at close to full ICU capacity.
2. The navy boat was used. It was used to treat non-COVID patients because, as I'm sure even someone of your low intelligence level can understand, a dense environment like a ship is a terrible place to treat patients with a highly contagious disease. So where they could they transferred certain types of patients there from the hospital, or sent them there in the first place. But the ship wasn't equipped to treat every possible kind of medical emergency.
It's always surprising to me how people like you can form such deep opinions about things without actually knowing anything about it.