An AP story Monday was headlined: ‘More Than 10,000 Virus Patients Remain in Texas Hospitals.” The Austin American-Statesman ran a similar story headlined: “Amid coronavirus woes, hospitalizations in Texas hold above 10,000.”
Folks, this is how propaganda panic works, if you said 1/6th of Texas hospital patients were associated with COVID, that would not produce as much panic as saying 10,000 are in hospital.
Some ask, “Pratt, what do you mean 1/6th?”
Texas has over 58,000 staffed hospital beds in at present. There are many more non-staffed beds in reserve.
We are being threatened by Tyrant Abbott with another killer shutdown because 10,000 WuFlu patients are in hospital but I will guarantee you that we see even higher patient counts from influenza some weeks of each year. And it should be noted that the hospital business is one that intends to run at 85 to 95% capacity at all times, it’s not as if our very expensive to operate and staff hospitals were created to run at only half- or two-thirds-capacity which is what is being implied by Abbott, other local officials, and media reports.
And now for the bed-wetting morons, giving context to this does not mean we do not take seriously COVID, it means we have the ability to judge things in context with other threats.
Actually, it is your objection to context that shows you do not take influenza seriously given that over 10,000 die from it each year in Texas. Maybe you are partly responsible for those deaths given you didn’t push for lockdowns and mouth muzzles last flu season?
The media and political distortions are even more inexcusable than that. Every patient coming into hospitals is tested and currently 10,457 hospitalized patients in Texas supposedly test positive for COVID-19 (that = 17.9% of staffed hospital beds). The public might naturally believe that this number represents patients sick with COVID-19, but that is FALSE and intentionally misleading. Texas hospitals and health department fail to report the number of patients presenting with COVID-19 symptoms, versus those that are coming to the hospital for other medical issues and simply test positive (and many are asymptomatic or not even be sick because of the virus). In Arizona, for example, during the week of July 4th only 15.1% of hospitalized patients have CLI (COVID-like symptoms) and 10.3% of ER visits were people with CLI. We are not getting the full story. Given the anecdotal reports coming from hospital workers and visitors, there is mostly likely nothing like a tsunami crisis going on inside our hospitals. Shame on the medical professionals, shame on the hospitals and public health officials, and shame on the media for more scaremongering that has become so over the top, it can only be attributed to political agenda at this point. We cannot trust any numbers we’re being given anymore.
Thank you for this info. Let me tell you, my wife and daughter have both been cussed out in stores for not wearing mask. I have been told I am stupid and that there is nothing to debate about Covid by doctors at church who demanded that we all must wear mask. I thought it was a good compromise when church leadership had a section for those “At Risk”, a section for people to wear mask, and a section for people who did not want to wear mask. The only people sitting in the “masked section” was the doctor’s family. The one doctor that was there that day was so mad he left before church started. He then spent the next week brow beating the leaders into submitting to his demands, and for the last month we have all had to wear mask. When I confronted these doctors, they said there was no debate. All I was trying to say was the issue was debatable. When I tried to present the data I had, they said it was not credible. Basically what I heard was there was NO CREDIBLE data that refuted their position. What closed mindedness. I am not going to fight with them and split our church. But I am on the prod and am going to now go on the offense.