What will the reaction be when there are not enough hospital beds

[Texaswitchy]

Or medical personal.

The unvaxed will be surprised maybe.

Pissed off.

With school starting we looking at a lot of sick kids.

The hospitals are already overwhelmed.

[Skittles]

1. repukes DO.NOT.CARE.

they will blame the spread of Covid on IMMIGRANTS....they NEVER take responsibility FOR ANYTHING

[Texaswitchy]

2. Yep

It is always somebody elses fault with them.

[OhioChick]

6. They're also blaming Healthcare Workers now for the spread....

They're getting spit on.

[Skittles]

7. omg

[SheltieLover]

10. This!👆

[Hortensis]

15. :) That's what they say about all of us too. They do care about their

own children, but for many believing a Covid hoax is part of an evil Democratic plot has been baked in. You know it's bad when very ill patients sincerely believe hospital personnel are lying to them.

Denial is already getting harder and is about to get much harder. But of course it'll still all be the fault of whoever they fear and dislike. The universal mindless reaction.

[Volaris]

3. 'WHY DIDNT SOMEBODY TELL US?!?!'.

[mucifer]

4. President Biden will be blamed. His poll numbers are already going down

[Celerity]

13. Yep.

[tanyev]

17. And Pelosi. For some reason.

[Takket]

5. No one will care. They don't even believe there is anyone in the hospitals

They believe hospitals are empty and just make up covid numbers to make drumpf look bad.

[clutterbox1830]

22. This

That will make up their own facts anyways. A lot of these anti-vaxer believe the vaccine kills more people than Covid. You can't reason with crazy.

[Mr.Bill]

38. I've read some say

the hospitals are full, but they are full of people dying from the vaccine.

[Tanuki]

8. They are already blaming, with zero evidence, "illegal immigrants

pouring across Biden's open borders." It is already the right wing's widely-distributed talking point of the week.

[Grokenstein]

9. They'll blame immigrants. Hell, they're already doing that.

And, of course, they're blaming Biden for not "securing the border." (Don't ask what all the National Guardsmen sent from the red states are doing. Maybe they're already back home.)

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

11. MAGAts don't give a fuck

[GoodRaisin]

57. Even a magat loves their kid. I guess it's going to take these stupid people

losing THEIR children for them to wake up from the stupor they have fallen into. Unfortunately that is too late.

[SheltieLover]

12. Hospitals should either refuse willful antivaxers

Or put them in palliative care in empty buildings or tents, as suggested by another DU member yesterday.

Not smart to clog & overwhelm the healthcare system with them.

Accident victims, heart attacks, etc. etc., etc. need space & medical attention they will not get because of the anti-vax hypocrites.

This is so wrong on so many levels.

Like a very poorly written movie script.

[roamer65]

27. Absolutely right.

Children first. Willfully unvaccinated covidiots, dead last.

No pun intended…sort of…

[SheltieLover]

31. Lol

Great pun.

Why don't hospitals do this? Is this a legally viable option?

[roamer65]

32. I think they don't want the bad press.

They are waiting for FEMA and other emergency management to step in.

Meanwhile, children and immunocompromised people die.

Sad, but true.

[SheltieLover]

35. I suppose

But why is it always perception winning out over truth?

My top pet peeve.

[roamer65]

37. I hear ya.

All about the 🤑, sadly.

[SheltieLover]

39. Sickening

People's kids are going to die &, per Dr. Ding approx 1 in 12 will struggle with long haul.

[Mr.Bill]

42. I belong to a family of Nurses, including my wife who is retired.

You will have a hard time getting any health care worker to not offer the absolute best care possible to every patient. Theoretically, a convict gets the same treatment as a Saint. The ugliest it gets is in disaster scenarios when people get triaged. And even then, it's based on who is savable, not who they are.

[marie999]

34. So doctors should just throw out the Hippocratic Oath?

[SheltieLover]

36. Of course not

Pls read above post.

[smirkymonkey]

51. Yes! Hi Sheltie Lover!

That might have been me, or at least I was one of the people calling for the same.

I am so tired of these horrible, selfish people. I don't think any healthcare worker or institution should be forced to go out of their way to save them. They knew the risks and they took their chances. There is no reason that other innocent people should have to suffer for their ignorance and stupidity.

[SheltieLover]

52. Hi SM!

Fully agreed!

[Klaralven]

14. We need better protection for healthcare workers

They should be given close to 100% immunity by booster shots and by booster shots tailored to the new variants.

We also need better drugs for those who do get sick. Something at least as effective as Tamiflu is for flu.

[Horse with no Name]

23. Booster shots are in the works

But it isn’t going to be a 3rd dose of the existing vaccine. There is one on the horizon that helps with some of the variants.

[JustAnotherGen]

16. I'm evil

They can't be sent to NJ. We did this last year. We then took all of the steps necessary to get vaccinated, slow rolled the opening, offices are still doing half team in, half team out . . .

I've put off sinus surgery for 14 months. They can't come fill up our hospitals.

They LAUGHED at us last year. Said we were brainwashed and it was a plandemic.

We can send ventilators - but in the meantime - we've moved on.

[Texaswitchy]

18. They are willing to endanger their own families for Trump.

Trump took his shot.

Most of the Republicans in Congress did.

These fools will not.

[NotASurfer]

19. Hospitals should put up a big tent in the parking lot now

Call it the contingency plan. If anybody asks, explain that the hospital is saving enough beds for core medical care, L&D, dialysis, cancer treatment, and the emergencies of life like appendectomies. If Covid gets bad enough, all the remaining beds are for patients who can be helped

The tent in the parking lot is for triage. Patients in the best shape can be monitored for a couple hours and sent home to quarantine and self-medicate. Patients who might be treatable wait for a bed to become available. And patients who are simply too sick for the hospital to provide heroic care for, get sent behind a divider and checked every hour or so

Put the tents in the parking lot now as a warning. Then, hope the warning is heeded and we never have to use them

[Texaswitchy]

24. Sounds like a plan.

My Grandfather said when he was wounded in WW1 in France the Army set up death tents for those with the Spanish Flu.

Big tents.

Most died but some made it.

[SheltieLover]

40. Put willfully unvaxed in tents!

[Mr.Bill]

44. Most hospitals have tents ready to go.

They even set them up for drills. They drill for specific types of disasters. They have specific written procedures and policies for it.

[H2O Man]

20. There will be a

slight change in the lyrics of this song:

[triron]

21. School starting with live attendance is a very bad idea imo (at least in many states). You watch.

Need to continue remote learning in most places.

[SheltieLover]

41. Agreed!

But in the town I live in, they did not quarantine anyone when they had outbreaks this past year.

Mask mandates? Pfffft - teachers & even principle not wearing them.

[former9thward]

25. According to the CDC Covid hospitalizations are about 20% of what they were in January.

And the hospitals were not "overwhelmed" then and they are not now.

https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/covidnet/COVID19_5.html

[LisaL]

28. In some states they are.

NT

[SheltieLover]

43. Yes, actually, they are

DU posts recently about infant having to be flown 150 miles for care, 25 ICU beds open in all of Arkansas, etc.

Yes they are overwhelmed.

[former9thward]

45. I go by the CDC

[SheltieLover]

46. Your choice

I go by what I see in credible news stories & common sense.

[OhioChick]

47. I go by what I hear "firsthand" n/t

[SheltieLover]

48. Me too!

Sadly, CDC is last source I wpuld consult!

Have you seen this:

https://mobile.twitter.com/DrEricDing?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

TX no longer will notify parents of outbreaks in other classrooms!

[OhioChick]

49. Yes, I've been following him for a while now...

He's been on target throughout this entire Pandemic.

As for the CDC, they knew Delta was a VOC (variant of concern) but only labeled it a VOI (variant of interest) for far too long. The WHO even called Delta a VOC for a good month prior to the CDC.

I've lost trust in the CDC after Walensky was on the MSM crying for what was about to come and then did an about face shortly thereafter with the horrible mask recommendation.

[SheltieLover]

50. Good practice to read Dr. Ding's twitter!

He has been sounding alarms over delta for quite awhile!

I have to wonder what's up with the CDC?

[BannonsLiver]

55. Yeah, like Eric Ding

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/605644/



By the time of this writing, Feigl-Ding’s thread has roughly triple the likes and retweets of Jabr’s. This is one of the realities of the current information ecosystem: While out-and-out conspiracies and hoaxes will draw some attention, it’s really the stuff that’s close to the boundaries of discourse that grabs the most eyeballs. That is, the information that’s plausible, and that fits into a narrative mounting outside the mainstream, gets the most clicks, likes, and retweets. Bonus points if it’s sensational or something that someone might want to censor. After all, which is more interesting: “HOLY MOTHER OF GOD,” or “the essential data are still being collected and assessed,” as Jabr ended his thread?

[SheltieLover]

58. Please feel free to ignore my posts.

Dr. Ding has been 100% correct in sounding alarms about delta.

[BannonsLiver]

59. Even cranks like Ding get it right now and again

[SheltieLover]

60. Harvard epidemiologist a crank?

You are too funny!

[mcar]

26. It's already happening. They don't care.

[moondust]

29. Billionaires welcome!

In a supply and demand system they just raise the price of everything through the roof to reduce demand, right? Isn't that why the U.S. health care system is what it is? So the fat cats can get whatever they want whenever they want it?

[11 Bravo]

30. In red states and in conservative media President Biden will be blamed.

TFG will vomit a spew of incomprehensible gibberish.
Carlson will blame immigrants.
DeathSantis will ban social distancing mandates.
Maria Bartiromo will climb into the nearest wine bottle and gurgle about how it wouldn't have happened under Trump.
A whole host of Republican assholes will continue to ignore even the most basic precautions, causing countless Go Fund Me accounts to appear.
Steven Miller will still be a shitweasel.

[lpbk2713]

33. Privileged non-vaxers will piss and moan the loudest.

And they will be pointing their fingers in every direction but at themselves.

[Texaswitchy]

53. Huge numbers of Americans will die for Republican power trip.

Just ignore what is going on and try to act like it is normal.

Sick Republicans.

[Marius25]

54. Already happening. Most hospitals in the South are full and out of beds.

Florida hospitals are running out of oxygen for Covid patients.

Louisiana just had to shut down some Emergency Rooms so they could move staff from there to the ICU wards.

Texas is so full, Houston (which has the largest medical complex on Earth), had to fly an 11-month old girl 150 miles away to get treatment for Covid.

[gulliver]

56. I'm sure DeSantis will offer to work COVID shifts in hospitals

Otherwise, people might start to think he's a typical Republico-Trumpie jerk.

[Jim__]

61. Joe Biden did this! - That will be the reaction from the right.