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0 pointsmrjangles4y ago0 comments

See this is exactly what they said last time, they said hospitals were being overwhelmed then it turned out later that the emergency wards had been empty the whole time.

Anyway, I was suspicious so I looked up some of the hospitals you mention. It turns out they are actually short of staff not beds... because they fired them all for not taking the vaccine.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/athena-thorne/2021/12/...

The media is in full spin trying to cover up the reason why hospital workers are leaving, claiming it is because they are exhausted, and ignoring the fact they were fired.

https://www.fox9.com/news/people-are-exhausted-health-care-w...

The Hennepin hospital you mention is getting the army to send more staff

https://www.modernhealthcare.com/safety-quality/defense-depa...

Obviously they aren't short of beds or more staff wouldn't help.

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lrem4y ago

Uh, hospitals don't get short of furniture anywhere in the world. Most places don't even get short of equipment. It's almost always staff that is the limiting factor.

chaostheory4y ago

1. I wouldn’t call PJ media a reliable news source, and I lean right

2. Not all staff quit due to vaccine requirements. As some of the articles pointed out, they quit due to sheer exhaustion from the hospitals being continually overwhelmed

3. The percentage of nurses taken out due to vaccine requirements is less than 1%. Yes, every staff member counts, but that’s not the sole source or even the main source for hospitals being overwhelmed

4. The main cause of hospitals being overwhelmed is still due to a surge of incoming patients.

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